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Speaker 1: Missus Irene obum Lemme, a pregnant woman and the wife

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of Stephen obum Neme and Wosu, who was allegedly shot

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dead on Valentine Day around Amufi Junction along Benin Agbour

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Road in Benin City. The Edo State Capitol has cried

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out to well meaning individuals and civil society organizations to

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help her prevail on President Bola Ahmed Tenubu, the Chief

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of Defense Staff, General Olifemi Olide, and the four Brigade

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of the Nigerian Army to bring the suspected murderer of

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her husband to justice, stating that she has no knowledge

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if the soldier who allegedly committed the murder is actually

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being prosecuted, saying till date, the family has no information

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about the identity of the alleged killer or any legal

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action taken by the military authority to make the killer

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soldier face full wrath of the law, adding that the

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corpse of her husband has been in the mortuaries since

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the incident occurred on February fourteen, twenty two, twenty six,

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because the family believed if the husband is buried, they

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may never get justice and the case may be swept

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under the carpet. The bereaved pregnant woman made the appeal

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in a twenty one minutes video made available to US

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fortnight ago, after we had earlier reported that the family

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of Stephen obum Lemmee and Wosu has accused the Armed

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Forces of Nigeria AFN, led by General Olifemi Oliidae, the

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Nigeria Chief of Defense Staff, of attempted acts to cover

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up a soldier who allegedly murdered the young man Stephen

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obum Neme and Wosu on February fourteenth, twenty twenty six,

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Valentine’s Day along bene en Agbor Road around Amufi Junction

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in Edo State. This according to the family member, who

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pleaded for her names not to be mentioned in the press,

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said her brother was shot dead by the soldier after

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the deceased refused to hand over his car key to

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the soldier as demanded, saying her brother only went out

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with his friend she identified as Godwin Koke to get

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chicken feed when they encountered the soldier at the failed

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portion of the road that is currently under construction, saying

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the Nigerian Army has refused to disclose the names of

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the soldier who allegedly committed the act of murder or

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take appropriate lawful actions against the suspected murderer and in

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a swift reaction. When our reporter contacted the public relations

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Officer of four Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Captain Kennedy

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and Yan Muva a phone call on Thursday evening, the

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military authority said it is not true that the soldier

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in question has not been identified, saying the matter has

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been settled. And when our reporter demanded to know how

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the alleged murder case was settled with the family, the

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military authority refused to give details. Also, when our reporter

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contacted the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force

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public Relations Officer asd No Acodum, the police authority said

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the matter is under investigation and there is no ways

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such matter can be swept under the carpet. According to

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the bereaved pregnant woman, eyewitnesses said after her husband was

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shot and was in the pool of his blood, the

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killer soldier wanted to abandon him, but the people around

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prevailed on him and that was when the soldier decided

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to take the victim to the hospital and the bereaved

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family was later told by an officer that her husband

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was pronounced dead at the hospital, but she and the

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family believed the officer is lying because, according to her,

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when the bereaved family visited the earlier day, after President

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Donald Trump of the United States of America, the USA

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announced the killing of Abu Ballal al Menuki, the second

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in command of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

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ISIS in a joint operation with Nigeria soldiers in Borno State.

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A new video of the abducted four hundred and sixteen

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women and children in Boko Haram captivity has been released,

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in addition to a gory video earlier released by the

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terrorists wherein they beheaded almost six men who the insurgents

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said tried to escape among the kidnapped victims. This had

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led to public outcry and demonstrations, but according to Punch newspaper,

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protesters are reportedly denied the rights to protest in Ladaguri,

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the Borno State capital, saying the army reportedly deployed tanks

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and heavily armed personnel to filling Polo, the venue of

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the recent planned protests, forcing the demonstrators to withdraw quoting

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Somla Kaigama, leader of the protesters, as saying the atmosphere

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created by the military deployment made it impossible for citizens

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to continue with the demonstration that the development is deeply

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disturbing in a constitutional democracy. It may be recalled that

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we had reported that President Bola Ahmed Tenubu of Nigeria

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may have kept mute since more than forty eight hours

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a faction of the Boko Haram terrorists showed off four

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hundred sixteen people, mostly women and children, kidnapped and held

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hostage when the members of the the Jumatu Ali’s Sonna

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literality Walji hard Jast launched a large scale combat actions

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between fourth to the sixth of March twenty twenty six

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against the men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria AFN

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overran the Africa Country Military base at in Gosh, killing

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several soldiers, a figure the Nigeria authority disputed to be

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fourteen after several reports indicated that more than forty soldiers

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were killed during the attack, in addition to more than

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one hundred civilians, including Chief Imman of Ingosh alongside the

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community elders killed during the coordinated attacks that lasted days

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at Ngosh community in Guosa Local Government area of Borno State.

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This During the attacks, numbers of people were also taken

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hostage by the insurgents, with speculations indicating that the hostages

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are apparently being held at the rugged terrain of the

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Mandara Mountains, which sit wide across the Nigeria border with Cameroon.

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In the released video, one of the spokespersons of the

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Boco Harum group said they decided to release a proof

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of life video of the four hundred and sixteen women

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and children in their captivity following the demands made across

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to them by the Borno South Youths Alliance Bossier and

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according to the statement issued by the bossier when they

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made the video public on Friday, April tenth, twenty twenty six,

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the youth’s group called on federal government and governments at

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all level to ensure the hostages are released, saying specifically

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that we have witness cases in states such as Socoto, Zamfara,

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Katsina and Kelly Ware abducted victims regained freedom following interventions

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by individuals such as Sheik Armed Gumi. We therefore expect

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equal urgency and commitment in addressing the plight of being

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gosh victims. No region or group of citizens should be

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treated with less priority. In one of the recent videos

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sent by the Boco Harum terrorists to the Borno Youths Group,

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the group said it may not be wrong to say

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one of the major root causes of crimes, poverty, poor

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health care, suicides, killings and avoidable deaths today in the

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world is superstitious beliefs mixed with severe psychological manipulation, religious

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and spiritual delusions that often lead to family members abandoning

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their loved ones, especially their parents, for fear of being bewitched, doomed,

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or suffered from the delusional curse or spell superstitiously believed

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had been placed on their parents or loved ones. And

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this act who also lead to the accused family members

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committing suicides or being banished, beaten, or even killed by

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jungle justice. And in line with the numerous cases documented

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globally and locally, we have seen where individuals have committed

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murder or caused death due to acute spiritual delusions, which

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in psychiatry these are often diagnosed as cases of religious

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psychosist schizophrenia or clinical lycanthropy, where the perpetrator cannot separate

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objective readsality from spiritual hallucinations. This may interest you to

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know that in August twenty twenty five, at Outward Lake

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in Ohio, United States of America, U s A, an

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Amish mother obviously suffering from a severe spiritual delusion, drowned

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her four year old son in Outwood Lake. Investigators revealed

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that both she and her husband believed God was speaking

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directly to them, demanding ritualistic tasks to prove their worthiness,

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and as such, she explicitly told the police that the

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Lord wanted her to perform the sacrifice. This may not

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also be different from the case of a twenty two

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year old Nigerian and unengineering student named Benjamin O. Beenham,

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whose life seemed to heavily revolved around his church, who

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suffered a sudden psychiatric break in twenty twenty five after

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his family initially mistook his erratic behavior for a standard

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demonic attack rather than a medical issue. Allegedly driven by

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the delusion that his mother and sister were witches spiritually

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plotting to destroy him, he as a result of that,

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attacked his family, resulting in the death of his mother,

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but he was later diagnosed with schizophrenia under clinical custody.

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It may be recalled that one of the most famous

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historical cases of spiritual psychosis in the United Kingdom UK

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was the murder of Robert Dad in eighteen forty three

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by his son. The English artist Richard Dad stabbed his

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father to death on account of a delusion that his

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father was actually the devil in human form and that

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he had been chosen by God to battle the forces

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of evil. This act made him to spend the remainder

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of his life in psychiatric facilities, and in two thousand

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and eight, a passenger inside a Greyhound bus in Canada

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vince he killed a stranger, Tim McLain. Lee claimed that

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the voice of God told him McLain was an alien

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or a demon, and that if he did not kill

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him immediately, the man would come back to life and

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kill every one else on the bus. And one of

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the most recent cases of crimes caused by superstitious beliefs

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occurred on Fry the ninth of May twenty twenty six

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at Bumuazili area of awo Omama community in Uru East

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Local Government Area of Himo State, when Michael Akujiobi killed

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his uncle and two other elderly people, on the ground

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that they were the evil forces behind his misfortunes and

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problems in the family. The suspected murderer, who said he

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returned from Lagos State to his country home in twenty

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eighteen to wage war against spiritual forces so that his

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father’s name wouldn’t go Qui