Details
have emerged showing that Nigerian singer, Alizee suffered domestic
violence in the hands of her Danish husband before her untimely death on
Thursday.
The father of late Nigerian singer, Zainab Ali-Nielsen, aka Alizee
has revealed details of the domestic violence her daughter has been
suffering in the hands of her Danish husband, Peter Nielsen Schau.
Peter reportedly murdered the 37-year-old singer and her
four-year-old daughter, Petra, on Thursday after their bodies were found
in the kitchen at their residence in Banana Island, Lagos.
In a chat with Sunday Scoop, Alizee’s father, Ali Madaki, gave some information about the couple. He said, “I
have known my late daughter’s husband for over seven years now. At the
outset, he was of good character but last year, he started fighting his
wife. Last November, a case was reported at the police station when he
beat her to a coma. He then wrote an undertaking that he would never
batter her again.”
Recalling how he was informed about the ugly incident, Madaki said, “On
Thursday morning, he called me; I was in Abuja. Since I missed his
calls, I called back and he told me he saw my daughter and granddaughter
on the floor in the kitchen. I asked what went wrong; he didn’t say a
word and dropped the call. One of my two daughters staying with them
called their mother and broke the news. We took the next flight to Lagos
and found out she was dead truly. I didn’t even know my grandchild was
dead too. I told my daughter to get Petra for me and we should go, then
she told me she was dead too. I was shocked. The husband claimed it was
gas suffocation that killed them. We know that gas doesn’t kill people
that way. In the pictures, you would see bruises all over their bodies.
They were strangled to death. I strongly believe he did it because their
compound is highly secured. Whenever I visited them, the security
operatives had to confirm my visit with them before I would be allowed
in.”
Stating that he was unaware whether the Danish man was a drug addict or alcoholic, Alizee’s father said,
“I don’t know if he has a history of being an alcoholic or drug addict.
She once came back to our house in Abuja after being battered by her
husband. She was there for almost a month. The man came and started
begging that he was drunk. He said he consumed too much alcohol on the
fateful day he beat her. Since they had been together for a while and he
had never misbehaved, I accepted his plea and allowed Alizee to return
to Lagos.
“My two daughters are in the police station right now to give
their statements because they witnessed all that happened. They said he
hit her head on the wall. In the morning, he then asked them where his
wife was. They pretended they didn’t know what happened. They knew that
if they had made any attempts, they could be attacked too. There were
five people in the house when the incident occurred – my late daughter,
her child, husband and my two daughters – one 12-year-old and the other
10-year-old. I have four girls; Alizee is my first child and her
immediate younger sister works in a bank.”
The mourning father stated that he wanted justice to prevail. He added, “He
cannot do this in our country and get away with it even though he could
get away with it if he had done it in his country. We want our
government to pass a strong message to other foreigners with this. If
this happens in their country, they would surely execute the Nigerian.
Our government must give justice too as they do in other countries.”
Meanwhile, Alizee’s younger sister, Gift Madaki, who allegedly
witnessed the incident, stated that when she heard Alizee crying for
help, she went out to peep. “I was at home when the incident
occurred. When she was crying for help, I went to see what was going on
and I saw the husband hitting her head on the wall. I couldn’t come out
because I knew he would descend on me too. The man is aggressive,” she said.
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