09/10/2025                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            Only God knows the truth...........
MRS RETYIT, WIFE OF DR. SAMSON HARUNA IS CLEARED BY THE ARMY OF ANY WRONGDOING AND FREED
As written by Jeremy Nyuwa 
It was Mark Twain, the famous American writer who said, "a lie can travel halfway across the world, while the truth is putting on its shoes." Nowhere is this more applicable than in today's social media age where once lies are concocted, they are given wings to fly. 
I started reading about the news on social media of how this Plateau girl from Mangu, in a murderous rampage,  doused her husband in petrol while he was sleeping. Quite a pathetic, vile, wicked, and vindictive thing to do if true.  Yet, I cautioned us not to jump to judgment without hearing the whole story. But the embers of lies of social media, once concocted and fanned and gone viral, were unstoppable. Many started throwing the first stone at this lady without knowing the truth, except for what they heard online.
As a citizen journalist, I went into doing my due diligence to uncover the truth of the story. Indeed, the lady is from Jos and the marriage happened as reported in Jos. Many in Jos who participated in the wedding still have fresh memories of the good times from the wedding, which was full of an ostentatious display of wealth, privilege, and happiness.
All that had been reported on social media from the story gone viral, I found out was true, except for a key fact: the report that the lady doused her husband with petrol while he was sleeping in a murderous, jealous rampage over a message she discovered on her husband's phone from another lady.
What I was able to uncover through an interview with her immediate family here in Jos, is that the bride is home and cleared of any wrongdoing by the army. Contrary to her killing her husband, the narrative is one where she was the one repeatedly victimized and constantly beaten by her husband, and on one occasion, lost a pregnancy she was carrying.
The fateful occasion where she was portrayed