Culled from Vanguard
Ebonyi State Police command, weekend, said it had
arrested a middle-aged farmer, Okechukwu Ogbonna, who allegedly severed the
head of his 60-year-old father, Ogbonnaya Okereke over alleged mystic issues.
Vanguard gathered that the incident which took place
around 5:30 pm last Saturday at Isundiede village in Izzi Local Government Area
of the state saw the 30-year-old suspect, who returned from Church, brought out
a machete and proceeded to attack his defenceless father in their residence.
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Okechukwu, it was learnt, carried out the attack
following a prophesy he received from the Pastor of a Pentecostal church (name
withheld) who allegedly told him that his father was spiritually manipulating
his destiny, thereby making it impossible for him to make progress in life like
his mates.
However, sources close to the family revealed that
the suspect before committing the dastardly act had displayed animosity against
his father for not sending him to school or showing any interest in his future.
Confirming the arrest of the suspect, Ebonyi State
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Sylvester Igbo, stated that the body of
the deceased had since been deposited at a mortuary while investigations were
on to unravel the identity of the pastor.
“When the suspect was arrested he said he took the
action because of the prophesy he received from a pastor that his father was
manipulating his destiny and that the reason he also committed the act was
because his father did not show any interest in training him in school.”
It was also gathered that barely two weeks ago at 1
Elias Street, Abakaliki, a middle-aged woman and a school teacher, Mrs. Joy
Uchaji allegedly killed her two children with a machete then fled to Lagos.
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