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Dr. Chimezie Osigwe, 64, is a retired school
principal of Awa Community Secondary School,
Ejemekwuru in Oguta local government area of
Imo State. He not only allegedly killed his
mother, he was said to have also dried her
remains and stored them in a cupboard in a
room that allegedly served as his shrine!
The 78-year old mother, Mrs. Lucy Osigwe,
reportedly w ent missing sometime in 2003, some
10 years ago! There was no clue whatsoever
about her where-abouts.
Dr. Osigwe lived in a dilapidated house. He had
no fleet of cars and estates. Some members of
his Ejemekwuru community said he was a
recluse.

Nobody understoodhis ways. Everything
surrounding him suggested abject poverty!
Two stories were told about how the remains of
his allegedly missing mother were found. One of
the stories had it that a relation of the man was
not particularlyhappy that Osigwe was reluctant
to settle his indebtedness to him and decided to
search his house to help himself with whatever
he could lay his hands on.
But instead of finding cash, the young boy
allegedly stumbled on the old woman’s remains
and narrated the story to other relations who
then mobilized and stormed Osigwe’s shrine
where the boy’s story was allegedly confirmed.

The other story had it that some youths from
feelers from the late woman’s maternal home,
Amakohia, Awa, also in Oguta local council area,
showed that they made the startling discovery.
A villager, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, said
that following the inexplicable disappearance of
the old woman, some villagers decided to double
check the stories told by Osigwe.
“On getting to Ejemekwuru, our people
demanded to know why the woman had
remained missing for 10 years. the son told the
villagers that his mother was madat a point and
ran away to an unknown place”, the villager
recounted.
Not satisfied with the response, as well as the
non-chalant attitude allegedly exhibited by the
son, the villagers, according to the villager, went
berserk, destroying things in sight and ended up
spotting the large cupboard containing the
remains of their loved one.

“With this startling discovery, the villagers
quickly lodged a complaint with the police who
subsequently swung into action”, he stated.
Confirming the discovery of the woman’s body,
Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Katsina, said it was found in a large
cupboard inside the shrine located in the
suspect’s private room.
“The missing woman’s lifeless body was found in
a village called Ezuru Umuagwu, Ejemekwuru,
Oguta local government area of Imo State”, the
CP said.
“The corpse of the 78-year-old Mrs. Osigweh,
declared missing in 2003, was found in a large
cupboard inside the shrine in a private room in a
circumstance depicting ritual practice.
“The embalmed body, which was kept in that
condition for about 10 years, was alleged to have
been placed in the warehouse by her son, Chief
Dr. Chimezie Osigweh, a 64-year old retired
school principal”.
The Imo police boss alleged that the suspect was
a member of a sect, adding that “preliminary
assessment of the sceneof crime revealed that
the late woman could have been murdered for
ritual purpose”.
Katsina also alleged that members of a sect used
to hold secret nocturnal meetings in the place to
enhance their occultic powers.

“The principal suspect, Chief Dr. ChimezieOsigwe,
who is the son of the woman, has been arrested
and is making useful statement to the police”,
the CP said.
The suspect refused to disclose why he treated
his mother disrespectfully for ten years. He
rather pleaded that he should not be forced to
say anything for fear of being attacked by his
enemies.
“Do you know that I have escaped three
assassination attempts? Please, I will not say
anything because my enemies are all over the
place so that they will not use it to attack me”,
Osigwe told journalists.
Irked by the adverse image created by criminal
stories from Imo State in recent times, royal
fathers from the state rose from an emergency
meeting in Owerri, condemning the factory baby
saga and Osigwe for allegedly killing his mother
for ritual purposes.

The traditional fathers also ordered the banishing
of the alleged perpetrators from their ancestral
homes.
Rolling out the decisions of the royal fathers at
the secretariat of the State Council of Traditional
Rulers, the Chairman, Eze SamAgunwa Ohiri,
explained that they took the decision in view of
the shame the two incidents brought to the state
and its people.

So she was 14 wen she had him?

Who knows what dat room wld smell like?