Daily Sun
In what sounds like a movie tale, A woman in Obuno
Umuochefu, Igbo-Ukwu in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra state has
snuffed life out of four children of her boyfriend by strangling them. Not done
with her bestial mission, the suspect sat back at the scene of the crime until
her victims’ parents returned, and attacked their mother.
For Mr and Mrs Nwanneka Ogechukwu Okonkwo, both
natives of Ekwulumili in Nnewi South Local Government Area but resident in
Igbo-Ukwu, January 15, 2013, came like any other day. But the young couple who
are each 28 years old, never knew that it was the day their four children,
Chukwuebuka, (13), Chukwumelum (6) Obumneme (3) and 15-month-old Chinenyenwa
would breathe their last.
The young couple had no premonition of the tragedy
that shocked everybody in the community. Their three sons and a daughter were
allegedly killed by a lady simply identified as Blessing, from Abakiliki in
Ebonyi State. (Blessing is currently pregnant for the man )Narrating the tragic
incident, the mother of the dead children who spoke with Sunday Sun at Ekwulumili
Health Centre where she was recuperating from the shock, said that she was also
attacked by the suspect. Mrs Okonkwo said that the eldest of her children,
Chukwuebuka, was the first casualty. Continue after the cut...
According to her, the suspect allegedly hit him on
his forehead with a hard object and dumped the lifeless body inside an
underground tank in the compound before strangling his siblings one after the
other. “I was to go for a burial ceremony with my husband at Ukpor on that
fateful day and the children went to school. We initially left with the
youngest one, Chinenyenwa but the vehicle we boarded was jam-packed with
passengers and the baby started crying. Consequently, my husband said we should
disembark and use our motorcycle but people around said the road was too dusty
to ride with a baby on a bike.
I decided to go home and wait for our other children
who went to school so that they would take care of the baby and enable my
husband and I to make the trip with our motorcycle. “But long after school
hours, the children didn’t come home. We went to the school and other pupils
told us that our children had gone home. I looked for them along the roads they
usually take to the house but I did not see them.
Thereafter, I urged my husband to go on his own and
look for them, but he returned soon after, saying he had seen them coming home.
Before my husband and I left for the burial, I gave them food and told them to
go and stay with an old woman in the neighbourhood because we are the only
occupants of that building, and I don’t like them staying alone in the
compound. “We had stayed barely one hour at the burial ceremony when my husband
said we should go home.
But before we left, my husband’s phone rang and I
heard him say, ‘I’m in a burial’. So, as we got close to our home, his phone
rang again and he told the caller that we were not back yet. I didn’t ask him
who the caller was as we rode straight to the house.
“When we got to the elderly neighbour’s house, we
were told that she had gone for prayers and that my children were not seen
there. We got to the house and I opened the gate from behind believing that the
children were inside the house. As we parked our motorcycle inside the
compound, my husband pointed to the underground tank that was open. I became
apprehensive because we don’t keep it open. But I said maybe the eldest might
have drawn water from the well and had forgotten to close it.
I called Ebuka but there was no response. I ran into
the sitting room and saw the three younger ones lying on the floor as if they
were asleep. I ran out again believing that those three were sleeping. I
continued to call Ebuka and looked into the tank and I didn’t see anything.
“Later, I decided to wake up Ebuka’s immediate younger brother to ascertain the
whereabouts of his brother. I called him but he didn’t wake up; I tried to
rouse him but he was motionless and so were the other two. I cried to my
husband that the children were dead and I concluded that since the three were
dead, Ebuka might be inside the well.
There were marks of human nails on their necks that
showed that they were strangled. One of them had faeces in his anus. “It was
when my husband started crying and moved towards our bedroom, that the lady
(suspect) emerged from the bedroom and asked him why he was shouting. Then, I
advanced towards her and demanded from her, where she kept Ebuka’s body because
I had seen the others she killed. I held her and she gripped me. When I freed
myself from her grip, I rushed to lock one of the two gates and raised the alarm
until neighbours came.
“Later, somebody rushed out and called the youths of
the community before the local vigilante and policemen arrived. She was
arrested along with my husband.” Sources told Sunday Sun that the timely
arrival of the police and the local vigilante saved the suspect from being
lynched. It was also gathered that Mr Okonkwo, a furniture maker, had been
dating the suspect, a relationship his wife confirmed, and had been battling to
stop.
When contacted, the couple’s landlord, Mr Sunday, who
lives outside the community, described the alleged killing of the innocent
children as unfortunate and declined further comment. The Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO) in Anambra State, Mr Emeka Chukwuemeka, confirmed the
incident and said the matter was being handled by the State Criminal
Investigation Department in Awka, the state capital.
Blessing who is currently pregnant for the man
claims he did not tell her that he was married. But so what? Is that a enough
reason to take 4 innocent lives? You are a psycho and also deserve death.
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