Ritualists Kill Undergraduate During Visit To Her Boyfriend, Remove Her Vital Parts

Tongues are currently wagging in Ibusa

community, Oshimili north local

government area of Delta State following

the death of a 23-year- old undergraduate

of the state- owned university.

The victim, Josephine Igbokwe, it was

reliably gathered, had gone to visit her

boyfriend in the same community when

she was mysteriously hacked to death by

unidentified gunmen.

It was further gathered that the victim

had passed the night with her boyfriend,

Nnamdi Okolie, last Friday and on the

following morning was on her way home

to her parents’ house when she was

allegedly attacked by suspected ritualists

who removed a vital part of her body.

Sources said that the parents of the victim

was not informed early enough of the

incident as the boyfriend allegedly took

the corpse to the state -owned mortuary

claiming she was sick and died.

But this was not to be when during

nightfall, the victim was yet to return

home. Confirming the incident, police

public relations officer in the state, Mrs

Celestina Kalu, said the police acted on a

tip off when the incident was reported at

the Ibusa police division and the police

swung into action to confront the

boyfriend who could not give details of

her whereabouts.

She said that the boy was arrested and

upon interrogation, confessed that the girl

was hacked to death on her way home by

unidentified ritualists who removed vital

parts of her body. While saying that

investigation was ongoing, Kalu said that

the suspect was currently helping the

police in its investigation and would be

charged to court when investigation was

completed.

In a related development, the police in

Onitsha, Anambra State at the weekend

arrested a man identified as Chukwudi

Eugene, for allegedly stealing a six- month-

old male child at Ose-Okwudu market in

the area.

Confirming the incident, the divisional

police officer,central police station,

Onitsha, Mr Isah Abubakar, said the

suspect was arrested around Abuja motor

park when vigilante group members

intercepted him with the baby.

Source: Leadership