A hideous scene reminiscent of the infamous Otokoto saga in Owerri, September 1996, has been enacted in Ndiakunwata in Arondizuogu, Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, where a young man killed his 18 year old girl friend, cut off her head and buried it in his room for ritual purposes.
The victim, Perpetua Chinwe Obieri was said to have left her home Akokwa in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State informing her parents that she was going to her maternal home at Arondizuogu in the same local government area, but actually headed for her boyfriend’s (Emekwa Uwakwe’s) house.
Parading Uwakwe alongside three others in Owerri, the Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, CP Aloysius Okorie, said on reaching her maternal home, Perpetua phone her parents but failed to return the same day.
Okorie gave a graphic account of how the crime was committed and the efforts made by he police command to a apprehend the suspects in far away Lagos state.
He said: “You can see we have a case of murder for ritual. What happened was that on July 26, 2009 the young lady, whose head you are seeing (pointing at the decapitate head of Perpetua) left her Akokwa home, Ideato North in Imo State. You can see the head without the body.
“The young man, Emeka Uwakwe, is the boy friend of this girl and he came all the way from Lagos and lured her to his house in the village. He murdered the girl, cut off her head for ritual purpose and dumped the headless body in a bush. Apparently, the girl had told her parents that she was going to visit her maternal uncle in another village.
“AS at 7.04pm on that same Sunday, she called her parents and informed them she was already in her maternal uncle’s compound and they believed her. Later, her parents made a call to her and the call did not go through up till the next morning and by Monday, when it was obvious that she was not coming back, they made a report to the police that their daughter was missing.
“The parents are Nicholas, the father and Theresa, the mother from Umuezeala, Umueziama kindred in Akokwa. It was after they made the report to the police that some vigilante people on the same day came around and said they saw a headless body in the bush. The police invited the girl’s parents and they identified the headless body to be that of their daughter”.
The other suspects paraded a longside Emeka Uwakwe include Anthony Obioha from Lude in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA, and the medicine man, Damian Joseph Akara from Akwa Ibom State.
The CP assured that the suspects would be made to face the full weight the law since they have apprehended and warned parents and guardians to be watchful over their children 
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