They married months after.Emmanuel became a regular visitor to his homeland from America frequenting his village to be with his new wife and family. He engaged in menial jobs to support his dreams of a better life here.Years after he adapted to the lifestyle and surviving the culture shock of a different environment, Emmanuel returned to his hometown in Eastern Nigeria in search of a wife. Survival in a strange place, alone, was then important to him.

He would discover that life in God's own country was just an imaginary tale. He chose the United States as his destination for better life. Emmanue Ngene, like most aspiring young Nigerians whose lives were mortgaged to a battered inflation-driven economy of early 80s, sought survival overseas. Few years after he was incarcerated, Emma Ngene had partial stroke from the stress of the trial and subsequent imprisonment. This holiday season, Emmanuel Ngene is spending his sixth year inside a South Eastern United States penitentiary.At 56, he has 225 years, five months and ten days left to serve for first degree rape of his daughter, a crime he continues to deny, supported by members of his network of friends and family.

Am i not human do i not bleed