Man, 52 Kills 82-Year-Old Mother Over Alleged Ritual
Loading ...A 82-year old widow was reportedly killed by her son in Nando, Anambra East local government area of Anambra State.
The deceased, Roseline Okadigbo, was allegedly killed by her 52 year old son, Christopher Okadigbo for alleged ritual purposes.
Our correspondent gathered that the area have been cordoned off to forestall any break down of law and order, while two suspects have been arrested by the state police command namely, Christopher Okadigbo and his friend Ameke Udolu, for the offence.
Athough the state Police Public Relations Officer, Princess Nkeiruka Nwode and the State Police Commissioner, Garba Umar, were not on hand yesterday to confirm the incident, but a senior police officer, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the incident.
The senior officer, who revealed that the incident happened on May 2nd, 2018, said the left eye and the heart of the deceased were allegedly missing when her corpse was seen in her apartment.
The first son of the deceased, Chief Innocent Okadigbo, told reporters in the community, that he suspected that his younger brother’s motive was to use her late mother’s remains for ritual.
He said he got to know of his younger brother’s suspicious move through her late mother the eve of the incident.
His words, “My mother told me on phone on May 1, 2018 that my younger brother Christopher came to her apartment with one Ameke Udolu and were moving round making comments that were highly suspicious.
“She said she was afraid of staying alone in her house due to the kind of utterances she overheard the duo make while moving round her apartment.
“In the early hours of May 2, 2018, less than 24 hours after my mother’s apprehensive telephone report to me, I received another call from one Pius Aniefule that my mother was found dead in a pool of her blood.
“Minutes after Aniefule’s call, my brother Christopher who stopped relating with me since 1999, also called to inform me of the incident, claiming that he traveled to Minna, Niger State from where people at home broke the news to him.’’
Mr Pius Aniefule, while corroborating the account given by Innocent Okadigbo, said, “I raised alarm which attracted people in the neighbourhood and later telephoned his first son Innocent on the gruesome killing of his mother.
“As people rushed to the scene, we saw Ameke Udolu coming out of one of the rooms of late Mrs Roseline Okadigbo’s and we held him.
“We collected his phone and uncovered some incriminating telephone communications between Udolu and Christopher the second son of the deceased.
“When we got the phone, we forced him to make a call to Christopher and put on the speaker which Christopher did not know, then Christopher told Udolu to hurry down to Nteje junction if he had accomplished the job and wait for him there.
But due to the revelation from the phone conversation between the two, the irate crowd started to beat up Udolu.”
According to him, the man would have been killed by the mob, if not the intervention of the President-General of the community and the arrival of security personnel, who he said, later arrested the duo that saved him from being lynched.
The President General of Nando Community, Chief Ignatius Aghadinuno, said at the time he got to the home of the deceased on May 2, 2018, he saw the corpse of Roseline and aggrieved villagers as well as Udolu.
“Because of the massive beating Udolu was exposed to, I pleaded with the people and subsequently invited security operatives who later arrested Udolu over the act.
He said that Christopher was later caught hiding in the home of a native doctor very close to the community before he was handed over to police.
He appealed to police to do thorough investigation on the matter and ensure that the perpetrators of the heinous crime were not left off the hook.
Younger brother to the deceased,
Chief Uyammadu Anaeliaku, told reporters that Christopher had been fetish.
He appealed to government to assist the family by compelling him to exhume charms he buried around their compound.
“My late sister Rosline gave birthday to eleven children as we speak only two are alive and at one time or the other Christopher was accused of the death of these his late siblings due to his fetish activities’’, Anaeliaku alleged.
