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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:51pm On Dec 30, 2013
Enugu Women Protest Ritual Killings

Worried by the incessant ritual killings, especially of women in Enugu-Ezike in Igboeze-North Local Government Area of Enugu State, no fewer than 100 women yesterday protested the alleged killing of 11 women from their area.

The protesters accused suspected ritualists and chief priests of different deities in the area of being responsible for the dastardly act.

The protesters, who wore black dresses, held out tender palm fronds as they marched on the Enugu Government House, where they pleaded with the Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, to ban forcible marriages to deities in the local government.

In a petition they submitted to Chime, the women appealed to the governor to come to their rescue by unravelling and stopping the murders of women for ritual purposes.
The protesting women gave the names of the victims of the ritual murders to include Eucharia Abugu, Gloria Ugwoke, Caroline Mama, Ijeoma Onu, Mary Onu all from Inyi community.

The women said they were agitated as they did not feel safe, pointing out that "it can be anybody’s turn next.”

At Ikpamodo community, one Christopher Eya was said to have been murdered in his house like Mabel Itodo of Okpo and a boy named Ntadinma Eze from Amaja community.

The list also included the wife of the traditional ruler of Igogoro who was kidnapped three months ago and has since not been seen till date. There were fears about her safety, as many believed that she might have been killed for ritual.

Also at Amachalla and Ugbaike communities, two young women, namely Victoria Ugwuanyi and Rosemary Ugwuanyi, were forcibly "married" to a deity called "Iyakpala Ugbaike."

The chief priest of the deity is alleged to have also forced the daughter of a deceased man to marry him after claiming that the same deity killed her father.

Part of the petition reads: "A man named Solomon Eze died of HIV as was confirmed by medical report but the worshipers of the deity went and packed the deceased man's belongings and took them to the shrine, claiming it was the deity that killed the man.
"We strongly appeal to Governor Sullivan Chime to look into the gruesome murders, investigate the cases with the aim of uncovering the perpetrators and bringing them to book.

"We also appeal for an outright ban on any deity from forcible marriage of our women as it violates section 34 (1), 35 (1) and 42 (1) of the 1999 constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and African charter on human and peoples right."
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:52pm On Dec 30, 2013
Angry residents of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State stormed the Enugu State Government House on Tuesday, protesting the ritual murder of no less than nine women from different communities in the area.

The protesters, mostly women, who were clad in black and black alleged that chief priests of different deities in the area collaborated with the ritualists in carrying out the dastardly act.

Apart from the ritual killing, the women equally condemned forceful marriage of their daughters to deities.

They cited cases of Amachalla and Ugbaike communities, where two ladies – Victoria Ugwuanyi and Rosemary Ugwuanyi – were forcefully “married” to a deity called “Iyakpala Ugbaike.”

The chief priest of the deity is alleged to have also forced the daughter of a deceased man to marry him after claiming that the same deity killed the father of the girl.

The women holding palm leaves, pleaded with Governor Sullivan Chime to ban forceful marriages to deities in the council and to also prevail on security agencies to put an end to the ritual murder.


The petition they submitted to the Governor read in part, “We strongly appeal to Governor Sullivan Chime to look into the gruesome murders, investigate the cases with the aim of uncovering the perpetrators and bringing them to book.

“We also appeal for outright ban of any deity from forced marriage of our women as it violates sections 34 (1), 35 (1) and 42 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and Africa charter on human and peoples’ rights”.

Some of the victims of the ritual killing include- Eucharia Abugu, Gloria Ugwoke, Caroline Mama, Ijeoma Onu and Mary Onu, all from Inyi community.

It was said that at Ikpamodo community, one Christopher Eya was murdered in cold blood in his house, same as Mabel Itodo of Okpo and a boy named Ntadinma Eze from Amaja community.

The list also included the wife of the traditional ruler of Igogoro that was kidnapped three months ago and had not been seen till date.

DailyPost gathered that efforts by the police to prosecute some of the suspects had always been foiled by some influencial personalities in the area.

A source disclosed that some of the suspects were recently granted a controversial bail by the court, even though were standing trial for murder.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:53pm On Dec 30, 2013
In recent times, Aji community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has witnessed an unprecedented upsurge in crime. Since December 2012, three youths of the community have been killed by suspected ritualists. The worrisome thing about the killings was that the vital parts of the victims were removed by the unknown killers raising apprehension among the villages that ritual killers are on the prowl in their community.

Worried by this trend, the women of Aji, led by Mrs Amaka Urama, a school teacher and chairman of the Catholic Women Organization (CWO), staged a peaceful protest in the community, demanding an immediate end to the killings and the dissolution of the community’s vigilante, which they feared has been infiltrated by criminals and politicians, who want to use the members to achieve their political end.

They alleged that the chairman of the vigilante, Mr. Joseph Azegbe and the counsellor of the area had used masquerades to harass and intimidate them in efforts to stop their protest. At the end of the peaceful protest witnessed by the police, the army and officers of the State Security Services (SSS), Mrs. Urama spoke to Daily Sun. •

The chairman of Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area Mr. Onuh, the traditional ruler of Aji, Igwe Itodo and the Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation Mr. Goddy Ogenyi who approves vigilante group’s formation also spoke to Daily Sun. Mrs Urama My name is Mrs Amaka Urama, the leader of Aji Women Forum (AMF).

We had gathered ourselves together to cry out to the government, the chairman of Igbo-Eze North LGA, the traditional ruler of Aji and all the community stakeholders that we are no longer comfortable with the escalating crime rate in Aji. Our sons are being killed in mysterious circumstances. The killings started after the previous vigilante was dissolved.

Since then, we have lost three of our children. Before the dissolution our town was peaceful and our Igwe, His Royal Highness Simeon Osisi Itodo even received an award as the most security conscious traditional ruler in the South-East. We don’t know what happened and control of the vigilante was maneuvered out of his hand by some evil-minded politicians who have vaulting ambition to rule.

Those who were killed have their vital parts removed. They are Festus Idoko, Ndubuisi A and Uche Nwaossai who was killed and his body stuffed into his father’s water tank. As mothers who carry these children nine months in our wombs, we are tired of passing through these avoidable gory and horrible experiences.

We want a stop to it. The way it can be stopped is easy and that is the dissolution of the vigilante which has been hijacked by a highly placed civil servant (name withheld) who is running the vigilante through his cronies as a personal enterprise to achieve his political ambition using the blood of our children.

Our Igwe is the chief security officer of the community and should be allowed to choose the chairman of the vigilante. When he was in control, there was no crime in Aji. We want the status quo restored. This is why we are protesting. Some people don’t want us to protest and used over 200 masquerades to harass and intimidate us. We are surprised that our councilor is behind this.

The civil servant I was telling you about sent some of his thugs to my house to warn me not to mobilize the women for protest or else I will be killed. But I was undaunted. If I die because of a noble cause, I have no regrets; God will receive me in His paradise. But let it be known that if I die, the top civil servant now remote-controlling the vigilante should be held responsible. We want security in Aji to be tight to prevent these killings. We are surprised that some of these dements loyal to the civil servant are against our demand for tighter security in Aji. Why are they saying we should not protest the killings?

Do they have skeletons in their cupboards? Our sons are being killed and their private parts removed and people are saying we should not protest. I wonder, we have support of 99 per cent of well-meaning and concerned Aji people. Only one per cent of the people are against us.

We had asked the police that they brought to stop us to ask those that brought them why they want the killings to continue. We are for peace. We are copying from our leader, Patience, wife of Goodluck Jonathan who has gathered African women in quest of peace in Africa. We are just replicating her activities in our community.

We salute every Aji citizen who supports us. Anybody who is against us should be watched by security agents, the government. We are law abiding, we are harmless, we have no arms, we are only crying out for the salvation of Aji. We are praying God to have mercy on Aji as we women are agents of creation by God.

All Aji women are united in this common cause irrespective of age, economic status, religious difference or creed. We will fight until we restore peace in Aji and the killings stopped. Before the peaceful protest, I informed the police, the army, the local government chairman, the Igwe, the elders-in-council, the councilor representing us, and the vigilante. The chairman of the local government is not against us. He is worried that these kinds of atrocities in Aji are happening in his LGA.

He even lost his own brother in the ongoing killings in the area. Aji monarch, Igwe Osisi Itodo Our problems started after the former vigilante was dissolved in December 2011. Before now, the community was very peaceful.

We had an election, but I was surprised to see that the names the community sent to the Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation were substituted. Only half was approved by the commissioner, while another half presented by Engr. Atigwe unliterary was also approved. Between December 2011 and now crime has been on the rise here and three of our children were killed with their vital organs removed.

We are worried about this and want urgent stop to this ugly trend. I demand immediate dissolution of the present vigilante so that those we can trust the security of Aji into their hands can be appointed. It is very doubtful if the upsurge in crime in the community is a mere co-incidence since the dissolution of the former vigilante.

We are living in the village and as such, we are in a better position to know who to trust the security of the community into their hands. The apprehension of the women should be addressed. They should be encouraged in their noble effort to rid the community of criminality and restore it to its former position of a community where peace reign and crime minimised. Chairman of the LG, Mr Bonaventure Onuh The crime rate in Aji is worrisome.

The local government is concerned about the deteriorating crime situation in Aji. My own brother, a staff of the local government, was a victim. He was hacked to death while coming to work. I decided to hand over the matter to God since the actual killers of my brother could not be traced. I did not want a situation where innocent persons will be made to suffer for the crime of another.

The local government is planning to hold a crusade for Aji, we will not hesitate to dissolve any vigilante found to be performing beyond expectation or incapable of protecting the lives of the people. When contacted the Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation in the state, Mr Goddy Ogenyi feigned ignorance of the Aji problem, saying “I don’t know what you are talking about,” and advised the reporter, adding that “whatever you want, put it down in writing and bring it to the Government House and we will study it.”
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by IgboDelta: 7:54pm On Dec 30, 2013
RITUAL KILLINGS CONTINUE UNABATED IN OYO STATE YORUBA LAND

Oyo: Police arrest 5 for allegedly killing woman for ritual

Written by Oluwatoyin Malik.
Thursday, 07 February 2013 00:31
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THE mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a 36-year-old woman, Kafilat Lateef, has been unravelled by the Oyo State police command, as five suspects have been arrested for allegedly killing her for ritual purpose.
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The suspects, who were arrested in Oyo town, were Gbenga Taiwo (35), Afeez Kareem (38), Lukman Ganiyu (30), Mohammed Saheed (45) and Adeyemi Adedokun (40).

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Mrs Janet Agbede, who conducted newsmen round the scene of the crime, said a family member of the deceased, one Sekinat Lateef, went to Kajorepo police station to report the case of a missing person.

According to Mrs Agbede, the complainant said her sister went to her lover in Oyo, on January 21 and did not return.

She added that the complainant also told the police that calls made to Kafilat’s line was no longer going, until a few days later, when they received a call from her line that she had an accident in Lagos and was at the General Hospital, also in Lagos.

The police boss said policemen set to work after the family had reported the case, resulting in the arrest of the principal suspect, Taiwo.

Mrs Agbede said his confessional statement led to the arrest of others and recovery of the remains of the deceased, which had to be exhumed.

Taiwo, the lover, had reportedly invited the deceased to Oyo and, in connivance with his friends, Kareem and Lukman, laced Kafilat’s drink with drug, which made her to sleep off, after which Lukman hit her on the head with a digger.

The suspects had confessed that they dug a shallow grave at the backyard of the house where Lukman was a guard, where they buried the body of the deceased with a kolanut in her mouth.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that trouble started for the group when they went to the grave the second day and did not find the kolanut.

After the third day, they decided to exhume the corpse, remove the head and burnt other parts, while they buried the charred remains in another grave by a dump site at the back of the house.

Taiwo confessed that the head was given to one Adeyemi Adedokun a.k.a Baba Agbadu, to keep.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Taiwo said his action was based on his discussion with a Muslim cleric, Saheed, who asked him to bring a kolanut which had been put in the mouth of a dead person, promising to use it to make a charm for him.

A herbalist, Adedokun, in whose custody the severed head was allegedly kept, however, denied being given the head, though he admitted that Taiwo brought the head to his house.

Nigerian Tribune further gathered that Taiwo was a wanted suspect in connection with cases of robbery.

He was said to have abandoned his wife and only child, relocating to Oyo from Ibadan immediately he knew there was a manhunt for him.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/4757-oyo-police-arrest-5-for-allegedly-killing-woman-for-ritual
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by geeez: 7:54pm On Dec 30, 2013
40% erosion ravaged land, 40% ritualists' evil forests, 20% baby factory industrial estates (of which the babies are very likely used for rituals). Now you see why 80% of them can't stay back.

You can see why they are cursed? Using innocent children for rituals

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:55pm On Dec 30, 2013
Four policemen attached to the Federal Highway Patrol Unit of the Nigerian Police, Aba/Azumini section, Abia State have been detained over alleged ritual murder.

The police team led by Hyginus Omeze, were alleged to have murdered one Onyekachi Chukwu, aged 26, dissected him and collected some of his vital organs for ritual purposes.

Trouble was said to have started for Omeze and his team when they got a distress call to a location at Nwaobasi All Saints Estate, Ogbor Hill and arrested Onyekachi.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that on Sunday June 23, Onyekachi, a native of Ahaba Imenyi in Isuikwuato local council who lived at No. 47 Ukaegbu Road, Ogbor Hill, Aba went out with his friends to drink at a hotel located at City Global hotel on Ekenna Avenue.

After spending the day, Onyekachi who was said to have been heavily drunk decided to pass the night at the house of one of his friends in resident at the Nwaobasi All Saints Estate in Ogbor hill.

According to a resident of the area who preferred anonymity, “When the boy got to the house, he started banging at the gate and shouting the name of his friend, Ifeanyi with whom he had gone out earlier to drink with.

The bangs at the gate attracted the attention of the residents including his friend, Ifeanyi’s wife. When Ifeanyi’s attention, who was not yet home as the time at 2.00am, was called to the situation, he was said to have called his neighbours and his wife through phone call that Onyekachi is not a thief and but was drunk and should be taken care of.

The source hinted that another resident, a nurse simply known as Ezinne Sunday, alleged to a girlfriend to the policemen of the Federal Highway Patrol, made a call to them.

The policemen stormed the area and found the boy drunk and started beating him with gun butt and later took him to their base at unnamed hotel at Opobo road area of Ogbor Hill which serves as their base

The policemen, who were said to have refused appeals by residents of the area arrested Onyekachi and a tenant as well as a caretaker of the house and took them to the same hotel.

On getting to the hotel, Pointblanknews.com gathered that the policemen left the other two men behind with the gate man of the hotel and took Onyekachi out in their new Prado patrol jeep and drove towards Azumini.

After about one hour, the policemen were said to have returned to the hotel without Onyekachi whom they went out with.

According to sources at the hotel, as they came back to the hotel, the police men collected the men they had earlier left behind and took them back to the Nwaobasi All Saints Estate residence and ordered the occupants of the house to contribute money for them to replace the bullets and petrol which they claimed they had wasted and the people complied without actually knowing what the policemen did.

The lid later blew open when Onyekachi’s relations after two days of searching for him without success made formal complaint to the Ogbor Hill Division of the Nigerian police at Azuka Drive who swung into action and traced their colleagues who committed the dastardly acts to the Rowmay hotel where four of them were arrested.

The DPO of the Ogbor Hill Division was said to have re-arrested the two occupants who were returned to their house by the Federal Highway Police who spilled the beans and where they parted ways with the late Onyekachi.
The gatemen of the hotel who was also arrested later identified the 4 policemen who drove the boy away, but returned without him.

An elder brother to the late Onyekachi, Uchechi alleged his brother was killed for ritual purposes.

“They arrested somebody who was drunk, instead of taking him to a police station, they took him to a hotel, is that the way to do police work? Is the hotel now a police station? An innocent boy was killed without offence by the Federal Highway Police. Onyekachi was killed for ritual purposes.
This is why they didn’t allow any member of the family to see his body. My brother’s blood was crying for justice. We are calling on the Inspector General of Police and Gov. Theodore Orji to ensure that justice is done so that Onyekachi will not die in vain.”

Uche expressed gratitude to the Aba Area Commander, ACP Rabiu Dayi without whose efforts the killers of his brother would have gone scot free. He described the Aba Area Commander as one of the shinning lights of the Nigerian Police.

Police sources hinted that the arrested policemen later took their colleagues to an abandoned borrow-pit located on the outskirts of Akpaa Mbaato community along the Aba/Azumini Highway where the dismembered and decomposing body of Onyekachi was found placed on top of a roofing shit before being allegedly dissected. A police source who was part of the visit to the abandoned borrow-pit said human skulls, bones, hand gloves, sheets of zinc and metal were seen on the site, stressing that it was an ugly sight to behold.

Reacting to the allegation of the Onyekachi being killed for ritual purposes, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abia command, ASP Geoffrey Ogbonna who confirmed the incident, denied reports that he was killed for ritual purposes.

“It could be as a result of the way bullets pierced his body that made his relations think the young man was murdered for rituals, but I assure you there was nothing like that.”

Ogbonna said the four suspects involved in the dastardly act are undergoing interrogation after which the law would take its course, stressing that police men are meant to protect lives and property, not to kill innocent people.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:56pm On Dec 30, 2013
Police in Abia state yesterday dug up the body of the 400 level law student of Abia State University, Mr. Obinna Obasi Awa from a superficial grave where he was buried in a farm in the region of the University community settlement in Uturu, Abia State.

According to DAILY SUN, CP Aisbaor stated: “We learnt that it was in the course of initiation that they inflicted lots of injuries on him and he gave up the ghost and they went and buried him in a shallow grave. Investigation is still on, at the end of it, we will charge the culprits to court. It is a pure case of murder. But the other two who are involved were the ones that led the police to the place that they buried the deceased. Chiemele and Okoronkwo are members of Maphites Confraternity, but not part of the initiation”

What a way to waste a promising life, condolence to his family. Why should these cultists inflict pains on themselves? when they claim, the sole aim of their confraternity is “brotherhood” and looking out for themselves against opposition cults within the University campus?.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by IgboDelta: 7:56pm On Dec 30, 2013
POLICE DECLARES YORUBA LAND HIGH RISK ZONE FOR HUMAN RITUALS


Man kills lover for money ritual
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Police in Oyo State yesterday arrested five people for allegedly killing a businesswoman, identified as Kafilat.

Until her death, Kafilat was a trader at the popular Bodija market in Ibadan, the state capital.

The deceased was said to have been lured to Oyo town by her lover, identified as Gbenga Taiwo.

The suspects were taken to the house at Alhaja Sarat Street in Jare Emily area of Oyo town where the crime was committed.

It was learnt that Taiwo had conspired with his friends, Ganiyu Lukman and Kareem Afeez, to kill Kafilat for ritual purpose.

Taiwo also contacted Mohammed Saheed, an Alfa, for money ritual and decided to use Kafilat for the ritual.

It was gathered that Taiwo invited the deceased and took her to the house where Lukman worked as a guard, fed and drugged her so that she could sleep off. Kafilat was reportedly murdered in her sleep.

Her body was then cut into pieces and set ablaze to cover up the heinous crime.

But while briefing journalists in Oyo town yesterday, the state Assistant Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede, said the command started investigating the crime when one Mrs. Sekinat Lateeef, a relative of the deceased, made a report at the Central Police Station, Iyaganku, that Kafilat was missing.

Agbede said the deceased had earlier contacted her relative on her mobile phone that she was in Oyo town with Taiwo.

She said: “We immediately commenced our investigation.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/man-kills-lover-for-money-ritual/
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:57pm On Dec 30, 2013
A man, Okorie Ogbafor, who reportedly murdered his 26-year-old wife, Ifeoma Okorie, and removed her private parts and hair at Onicha-Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, for ritual purposes before fleeing to Lagos has been arrested.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Sylvester Igbo while briefing newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Abakaliki, yesterday, said the corpse of the deceased was found in a bush behind the couple’s family house, adding that it had already started decomposing when a team of policemen from the state command found it.

Igbo, who disclosed that the suspect took off to Lagos State after committing the crime, noted that relatives of the suspect who reported the incident at a nearby Police station assisted in arresting him in Lagos.

“On July 12, 2013, a case of murder was reported at Onicha-Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area where it was alleged that one Ifeoma Okorie, 26, wife to Okorie Ogbafor was murdered and the corpse dropped in a bush behind their family house,” Igbo said.

“When the police team went to the place, on a closer examination of the corpse, it was discovered that the head of the woman was nearly severed from her body and it was also discovered that her private part was chopped off and parts of the hair shaved while the corpse was already decomposing.

“It was taken to the Federal Teaching Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
“It was after three days that her body was discovered. However, in the effort to know the actual perpetrator of the act, some people were arrested and it was then that we discovered that one Okorie Ogbafor was the person behind the killing of his wife.

“After killing the wife, he ran to Lagos. All this while, he was not seen within the vicinity and as information reached his kinsmen who were living in Lagos they reported the incident at the nearest police station to where the suspect resided.”

Igbo said a team of detectives in charge of the case were on their way to Lagos to bring back the suspect to Ebonyi State as the case would soon be charged to court after investigation.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by IgboDelta: 7:58pm On Dec 30, 2013
HUMAN RITUAL IN yorubaland REACH ALL TIME HIGH

Graduate murdered for ritual in Oyo

Graduate murdered for ritual in Oyo
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TWO people, a suspected fake medical doctor, Abiodun Oguntowo, 48 and one Abolade Ogunrinola, have been arrested by men of Oyo State police command for alleged murder.

The suspects, who are currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Nigerian Tribune gathered, were assisting the police to unravel the cricumstances, which led to the death of a graduate of the Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo.

The incident took place at Kosoko area, Oyo town.

The victim, 25-year-old Taiwo Badmus, Nigerian Tribune learnt had on December 3, 2011, left home and when she did not return home till 7.00 p.m., her elder sister was said to have raised the alarm.

It was learnt that the victim was allegedly murdered for ritual purposes.

A source told the Nigerian Tribune, on Wednesday, that the victim’s elder sister had contacted her boyfriend, Mr Abolade Ogunrinola, who was unable to give useful information on the whereabouts of the victim.

The source added that the incident was later reported at the Durbar police station, Oyo, and that the policemen were said to have acted promptly by arresting the boyfriend.

The boyfriend, it was gathered, took the police detectives to a room at Ile-Oloola, Adesina area, Oyo, where the victim way lying dead in the pool of her blood.

After interrogation, the suspect, was said to have mentioned the name of the alleged quack doctor, who allegedly carried out abortion on the victim. The source said Taiwo was not known to be pregnant.

He said that when policemen searched the area, a shrine was discovered at the back of the building where the corpse of Taiwo was recovered.

The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer (DPPRO), Inspector Makun Abodunde,who confirmed the incident, said the arrested doctor was a quack.

He said that he was arrested for abortion which led to the death of the victim.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by demmy(m): 7:59pm On Dec 30, 2013
SLIDE waxie: Thread ignored...

The kettle will start calling pot black now....infact, it has started already

A bi o. Don't mind them grin
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 7:59pm On Dec 30, 2013
…Student killed, heart missing, as Police begin probe From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha The Anambra State Police Command is investigating the death of an 18-year-old boy whose decomposing body was found at Abate Drive, Ogbomanu, near Onitsha. The body of Mr. Miracle Onwura, who was a student of Learning Field International School, 3-3 was discovered with a deep hole in his heart by residents in the early hours of yesterday in a deep well at Abatete Drive by Ogbomanu. Though the police said the cause of death was still unknown, residents told our reporter that the incident was ritual killing because of the alleged deep hole in the deceased’s heart. According to Miracle’s close friend who doesn’t want to be named, it was ritual killing, adding, “we discovered there was a deep hole in his heart and we suspected that his heart had been plucked out” Miracle who was living with his parents at No 1 Onwura Close, Housing Estate, Trans-Nkisi, went missing on Sunday June 30 after playing football with his friends. He said: “We played football together with Miracle on Sunday, he told us he wanted to go and barb his hair, since that day, he never came back…
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by IgboDelta: 8:00pm On Dec 30, 2013
HUMAN RITUALS IN YORUBA LAND HIGH. KEEP OFF

How 10 year old boy escaped ritual killing in his school at Ibadan

A school is believed to be a safe place. But that was where Abiodun, a ten-year-old primary school student in Ibadan, Oyo State, fell into the hands of a kidnapper. How did it happen?

Abiodun Oladele, a primary school student in Ibadan, Oyo State would have fallen prey to a suspected ritual killer but for sheer luck. The ritual killer was lurking around in Abiodun’s school of all places.

Academic activities in the school (names withheld), said to house both primary and secondary sections in the same compound, came to a standstill on Wednesday, June 11, 2013, when the suspected ritual killer/kidnapper was apprehended.

The suspected, identified as Chigozie Chukwu, reportedly arrived at the school during the lunch break. Chukwu, 17, who hails from Anambra State, was said to have come into the school premises by scaling the fence and hiding in one of the uncompleted classrooms in the vast compound, waiting for any of the young pupils to fall prey to his obnoxious plans.

It was reported that it did not take long before Abiodun strolled past Chukwu in his hiding place apparently wanting to go to the secondary section of the schools. Upon citing Abiodun, Chukwu reportedly called him, asking that he (Abiodun) help him locate one Taiwo in the school. But while Abiodun was trying to figure how he would be able to locate a Taiwo among the thousands of students in the two schools, Chukwu reportedly brought out a charm and started chanting incantations into it.

Within minutes, Abiodun reportedly lost his senses and started following Chukwu through a narrow bush path, which leads to the second gate of the school. In an account Abiodun later gave law enforcement agents after he was rescued, he said, “I was walking towards the secondary school when this man called me that I should help him locate one Taiwo in the school.

When I told him that there would be many Taiwos in the school, he asked that we go inside the school together. But before he followed me, he went into one of the uncompleted buildings and brought out something and started speaking a language I did not understand. He was not with the bag when I saw him. When he saw one of our teachers coming, he asked me to lie down so that the teacher would not see me and he also lay down beside me and started speaking a language I did not understand.” Luck, however, ran out on Chukwu when one of the teachers of the secondary school, who apparently was watching the development from a distance, yelled at the top of his voice ordering Chukwu and the boy not to move an inch from where they were.

The teacher also called on some senior students and teachers around to intercept Chukwu and the boy where they were while he ran down the stairs to meet them. When asked what his business was with the boy, Chukwu could not come up with a concrete explanation; neither could he explain what he was doing with the charm in his bag.
The police was immediately called in and Chukwu was taken to Sanyo Police Station in Ibadan. During preliminary interrogation, Chukwu denied going to the school to kidnap anyone. Rather, Chukwu claimed, a JSS II student in the school asked that he (Chukwu) come to the school for a telephone handset he wanted to sell to him.

He said, “I was in the school to see one Taiwo who is in JSS II. I met him recently and we discussed about a telephone handset he wanted to sell, but the money on me that day was not up to the amount Taiwo wanted for the phone. So, he asked me to come to his school to collect it with the money.

But I did not know his class, so I asked this boy (Abiodun) to help me search for Taiwo in the school.” Chukwu explained that the charm in his bag was not meant to harm anyone as being suggested, but to protect him from evil attacks.

He continued, “The charm they talked about was handed down to me by my grandfather. It is meant to protect me from evil ones,” he said, denying vehemently that he hit the young boy with the charm and rendered him senseless by spiritual means, an act which is said to have made Abiodun do his bidding without resistance.

A teacher in the school told law enforcement agents that he saw Chukwu making fetish moves on the pupil before he dragged him towards the back gate of the school. Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, confirmed the story and said that Chukwu was assisting the SCID at Iyaganku on investigations into the matter.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:01pm On Dec 30, 2013
The Ritual Killings in Okija Shrine.....

Nigerian police say they have found a further 33 bodies in addition to the 50 already uncovered in fetish shrines in south-eastern Anambra state.
A traditional cult reputed to carry out ritual killings is thought to have carried out the murders.

Some of the corpses had hands, genitals or heads missing.

Police have displayed skulls - and five men of the 30 or so people arrested in connection with the murders - to correspondents in the capital, Abuja.

'Parallel court'

"Police are concerned about how the headless bodies found their way into the shrines," said deputy police chief Sunday Ehindero.

However, a spokesman for those arrested denied any involvement in the killings.

"Since I have been there, for two years, I have not seen anybody killed by these people. Rather, the shrines kill," said Collin Obi.

He said bodies had been brought to the Okija shrines by family members.

Mr Ehindero said groups involved in disagreements had gone to the shrines to take part in black magic rituals.

"What we are saying is that we found there is a parallel court," he said.

Police found the shrines after being tipped off by a local villager in Okija who reported the priests had eaten the flesh of some of their victims.

What a horrible discovery......
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by IgboDelta: 8:01pm On Dec 30, 2013
WOMEN PROTEST RITUAL KILLING IN Yoruba LAND

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Women in their hundreds on Sunday protested in Osogbo, capital of Nigeria’s state of Osun against increase in the activities of ritual killers

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The women, who marched to the Palace of Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun, to register their displeasure over the activities of suspected ritualists, urged the monarch to come to their aid.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ritualists allegedly murdered and dumped corpses of two children around Sabo and Kelebe Area of the state.

Witnesses told NAN that vital part of the two bodies, including one of the victims’ right hands was severed.

Also a five year-old boy declared missing by the parents was found dead near a stream around Sabo Area of Osogbo on Friday with one of his hands missing.

Another corpse of an 11 year-old boy, hawking soya milk, was found around Iludun Area of Osogbo and his parents have searched for him for three days before his corpse was discovered on Saturday.

The genital organ and other vital parts of his body were removed by the suspected ritualists.

Similar cases of ritual killing have also been recorded at Odeomu and Ipetumodu, in Ayedaade and Ife North Local Government Areas respectively in the past weeks.

Olanipekun, while addressing the women assured them that the matter would be looked into and called on all security agencies in the state to rise up to their responsibilities by bringing the perpetrators to book

The state Police Command spokesman, Miss Folasade Odoro, confirmed the development, but said that only one corpse was discovered at Sabo area.

Odoro urged the people to be calm, assuring them that all the culprits would be arrested and brought to book as investigation was ongoing on the matter.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:03pm On Dec 30, 2013
500 Okija victims recount ordeal

Daily Independent
30th August 2004

By Chris Agbambu, Deputy Bureau Chief, Abuja

Shrines in Okija, Anambra State were chambers of horror and torture. About 500 victims have told police investigators how they were tortured to confess to crimes they knew nothing about.

In turn, the police have tightened their noose on the detained priests who may be charged with multiple crimes against humanity.

Since the news of their arrests, police investigators have been inundated with petitions from victims who allege one form of maltreatment or another by the priests.

They said the ordeal usually started with an invitation by the priests alleging offences they were innocent of.

One of the victims told the police in Abuja how the shrine operators extorted more than N3 million from him if he did not want to die.

The victim, who pleaded anonymity, told the detectives that it was by the special grace of God that he is alive, having met their demands.

In their own petition to the police, the Igbo community in Kwara State narrated how they were summoned to the shrine.

The younger brother of the captain of the Super Eagles, Austin Jay-Jay Okocha, was also at the police headquarters to tell detectives how the footballer was summoned to the shrine.

The victims said they came voluntarily to narrate their experiences so that when the list of the names in the shrine registers are published, Nigerians would not be surprised, “because most of them were victims of circumstances”.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by geeez: 8:03pm On Dec 30, 2013
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Superstar 14:1 Igboson

Its clear to all where the kidnap and ritual industries thrive

Besides it seems it is retail on Superstar's side while it is wholesale on Igboson's side where the killing is enmasse [/size]

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:03pm On Dec 30, 2013
Nigerian ritual killing arrests

Some 30 people in Nigeria have been arrested after 50 corpses were found by police in a raid on fetish shrines.
Twenty skulls, as well as genitals and other body parts were in a forest in south-eastern Anambra state.

Those arrested are members of a sect known to kill their victims during rituals in the belief that it will bring them riches.

The majority of Nigeria's 130m people are Muslim or Christian, but some also believe in the power of ritual magic.

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Police were tipped off by a local villager in Okija who reported the priests had eaten the flesh of some of their victims.


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"They were in coffins. There was no smell, not a single fly. This gives an indication that some chemicals must have been used on these bodies," Anambra State police spokesman Kolapo Shofoluwe told the AFP news agency.

According to the BBC's Chukwujama Eze in south-eastern Nigeria, the magnitude of the find has shocked residents.

A good number of the corpses had parts missing - hands, genitals or heads.

Some of the corpses had decomposed, while others were fresh, our correspondent says.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by Howmanage: 8:04pm On Dec 30, 2013
Ah i see whats going on now... You had me worried
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:04pm On Dec 30, 2013
Eighty-three bodies were reportedly discovered and scores of skulls and other bones found littering the "evil forest."

Perhaps impressed by their act of bravery, Ajah wanted his colleagues to eulogise the police, but he walked himself into the odium of his colleagues from the Southeast.

Their concern was that controversial as the saga had been in the public domain, it should not be introduced on the floor particularly by an Igboman.

The former leader of the Southeast caucus in the House, Mao Ohubunwa (Abia) opened the line of attack on Ajah.

He frowned at the attempt by a "son of the soil" (an Igboman) to commit a supposed sacrilege by bringing the Okija Shrines gods to judgment in the people's court.

"We should not be here to do things that are not in tune with our culture. If he wants to withdraw or is disposed to withdrawing the motion, he should do so but to say he is under pressure says a different thing," Mao said.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:06pm On Dec 30, 2013
A quiet revolution is now going on in Owerre Ebeiri community in Orlu local government area of Imo State . Chidi B. Uzomah, a lecturer in Imo State University , Owerri and the new Eze-elect for the community is kicking against ritual killings required by the tradition before he ascends the throne. Though it appears like a one-man riot squad, Uzomah is sure to win the battle.

Newswatch learnt that in the event of the death of the traditional ruler of the community; and the installation of a new one, about 34 human heads - 16 men, 16 women and a set of twins are usually sacrificed to appease the gods.

This, they claim, will enable the dead Eze have an easy passage and to be acceptable to the ancestors. The community has buried 10 Ezes in its life span and had performed the rituals. But Uzomah would not have any of it.

He claimed that God called him to cleanse the rotten system of the ancestors. He told Newswatch that God anointed him to liberate his people from the bondage of a barbaric culture. “That is why I left my job as dean in an American university where I was making $200,000 per year. When they were burying Ezealaeke, Eze Emenaha, his successor produced 34 human heads. That was the order then.”

In the community, only strangers are killed in the event of the death of the Eze. Before the advent of the whiteman, there existed a slave market which provided the bulk of humans for such sacrifices. After the destruction of the market by the British soldiers following the abolition of slave trade, village warriors were given the task of providing human heads from distant towns and villages. “These people are crying to God today for justice. That is the trouble Owerre Ebeiri is facing today. This evil committed has been haunting Owerre Ebeiri people. But God has called me to clean up all these rubbish,” Uzomah vowed.

That is not the only battle Uzomah has been waging in the community in the past two years. He refused to worship at the shrines and the temples of the ancestors. Instead, he brought about 10 pastors from the Overcomers Christian Mission, Owerri, to demolish some of the shrines. He said the shrines were used by his people to evoke sickness and unleash terror and mayhem on innocent people of the area. He claims to have also cast away the demons that inhabitate the Ofo, the symbol of the community, the Ikenga, and the Amadioha deities. This, he said, was to invoke the spirit of the dead to harm innocent citizens. He specifically mentioned a particular demon brought from Uli ( Anambra State ) by one of his grandfather’s wives. This demon, he said, has a shrine at the right side of the palace. Each time Uzomah visited home, the demon would battle with him because nobody sacrifices to it. “I have to go with the pastors and remove the shrine and cast away the demon. If you are not in the main line of the Ezeship, you may not know what is going on there.”

That was not all. Uzomah cited the killing of a promising young man by Ezealaeke for rituals. “The mother of the boy went to the village square where she protested naked. She cursed the entire village that nobody should go beyond the age of her son. Ever since then, nobody has started and completed a house. But after the liberation exercise, the difference is there,” he said. He told Newswatch that the rebellion against the ancestors had just begun.

He said Owerre Ebeiri people should wait and see what will happen when his father will be no more. “It is not my battle. It’s the Lord’s battle. The battle, he said started when he was seven years old. The story of Uzomah is very intriguing and revealing. In fact, Uzomah could pass as the proverbial cat with nine lives.

Two years ago, Uzomah had a bitter experience. That was after the day he besieged Owerre Ebeiri with 10 pastors from Owerri. After the liberation exercise, Uzomah was attacked spiritually. “I saw spiritual he-goats flying into my car and I fainted. He was later revived and taken to the church for prayers. The incident did not discourage Uzomah from the revolution he embarked upon.

Uzomah is the 12th crown prince. The traditional institution of Owerre Ebeiri is hereditary. Newswatch was told that those who tried to disrupt the inheritance system had met instant death. A story was told of one Okwara Orisakwe who tried to hijack the throne by claiming to be the head of the royal family. He even contested the Ezeship in the law court between 1980 and 1985 and lost. He later died mysteriously.

The lineage is strictly followed that when Eze Uzomah Nzeukwu died in 1936, the heir apparent , Benjamin Uzomah was only 12 years old. One Nwadike Okwara Ukoma, now late was nominated to represent Uzomah until he became of age. Ukoma was answering Uzomah until he was 24 years when the former stepped aside. Now (Benjamin) Uzomah is 78 years and blind. In order to maintain the lineage, Uzomah anointed Chidi two years ago. In an elaborate ceremony attended by many prominent sons of the town including representatives of Governor Achike Udenwa of Imo State and President Olusegun Obasanjo, the old man transferred the crown to (Chidi) Uzomah, as tradition demanded. “In the Bible King Saul was alive when David was anointed. Saul was old and inefficient that was why David was anointed. So also my father is old and blind, that is the reason for my anointing. My father actually took the crown off his head and placed on mine publicly. We have photographs and video tapes on the ceremony,” Uzomah stressed.

That was all Uzomah needed to launch his revolution against a tradition that thrives on human sacrifice. Ever since he started his rebellion against the ancestors Uzomah has attracted more enemies than friends. Uzomah has never known peace in the town. Many prominent sons of Owerre Ebeiri are bent on wrestling the crown from him. They accused him of desecrating and destroying the traditional institution of the community. Uzomah said these men have used all available means in a bid to eliminate him and take over the crown so that they could continue the atrocities of their ancestors. All efforts by the elders of the community to resolve the issue failed.

Prominent among the contenders was one Gilbert Nnabuife. Uzomah told Newswatch that Nnabuife used the death of his son to invite the dreaded Bakassi Boys of Aba to eliminate him (Uzomah). He alleged that Nnabuife paid Bakassi Boys N1.5 million to do the dirty job. The Bakassi Boys arrested him and four others, but instead of killing him, they demanded N100,000 for their release. They paid. He said he alerted the security agents about the threat to his life, but he was ignored.

Uzomah also mentioned one Hilary Mbachu, the parish priest of St. Martin ’s Catholic Church, Owerre Ebeiri, an indigene of the town as one of the people instigating the public against him with the aim of snatching the crown from him. Mbachu, he alleged, uses the altar of God as a platform to cause disunity among indigenes of the town. He also accused one Anslem Ikegkwuoha of inciting the traditional religion worshippers against his ascendance to the throne. Uzomah claimed that on the day of his inauguration as the 12th crown prince, Ikegwuoha and his supporters attempted to disrupt the ceremony, “but what happened to him later forced him to run away from the village. Many of them wanted to be Eze to continue the evil of their forefathers.”

All efforts to locate Ikegwuoha, Okwara and Nnabuife proved abortive as they were said to have travelled outside the state. However, when Newswatch later traced Mbachu to Saint Martin ’s Catholic Church, Tuesday, June 4, he declined comment insisting that he had to get clearance from the Bishop of Orlu Catholic dioceses.

Christian Amadi, Ishimbi of Owerre Ebeiri denied knowledge of such practice as killing during the burial or installation of Ezes in the community. The 86-year-old man also insisted that there was no where in the history of the town where such tradition was recorded. He accused Uzomah of bringing in such sentiments to make him relevant. “All we heard was that our people were very much involved in slave trade before the British soldiers invaded the Orie market and demolished it. Since then Owerre Ebeiri has been a Christian community,” he told Newswatch.

Uzomah’s father also told Newswatch that nobody has the right to destroy the deities or any traditional practice established by the ancestors. He maintained that the destruction of such traditions would amount to the loss of the community’s identity. Newswatch learnt that he had done all the ceremonies to restore the worship and service of those deities weeks after Uzomah had destroyed them.

However, Uzomah has a handful of supporters in the crusade he embarked upon. Many indigenes of the area who would not want their names mentioned confirmed the existence of such barbaric tradition in the area. They fear that Uzomah might fail in the crusade to abolish the culture especially with the calibre of people opposing him.

Canice Okorie, president, Owerre Ebeiri Development Union said the practice of killing human beings in the name of culture or tradition should not be taken lightly. He told Newswatch that he was aware of such practices in different parts of Igboland and beyond. He gave kudos to Uzomah for his effort to eradicate such tradition in the town. “I must commend him for his courage to confront the outdated practice. I condemn such traditions, we have to move out of the bondage of traditional bondage to enable us brace up for the future. Anybody using it (revolution) as a ploy to contest the throne is wasting his time,” he assured. Okorie also likened what happened in Calabar where the present Obong refused to be guided by certain traditional norms when he ascended the throne to the situation in Owerre Ebeiri.

He, however, called on the government to intervene and stop “this evil practice” associated with the Ezeship stool in the community.
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:07pm On Dec 30, 2013
A High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo state Capital yesterday, sentenced eight (cool persons to death by hanging for their involvement in the brutal murder of one Nze Dominic Ohamadiaku Duru, an ex-Police officer from Izombe in Oguta Local Government Area of the state.
High Court 7, Owerri, presided over by Hon. Justice C.M.I. Egole found the accused persons guilty of murder, following an overwhelming evidence before it; even as it freed the ninth accused person-Sussana James Duru for having not actively participated in the dastardly act. The convicted persons, who were all found guilty of first degree murder are: James Ugwuoha Duru, Fester Nuforo, Alexander Nnadi (Alias Apollo), Friday Nuforo, Jonathan Chuddy Nnadi, Chifoanu Okorie, Mattias Ohazurike and Evans Egbujor.
Delivering the landmark judgement in suit number: HOW/4C/2007, the presiding Judge analysed all the evidence before it and found eight, out of the nine accused persons guilty of conspiracy and murder.
“You are to be hanged by your neck until you are drained of your life breath and you are dead and may God have mercy on your soul,” the judgement reads in part.
Investigations revealed that the freed Sussana James-Ugwuoha (wife of James Ugwuoha Duru) was linked to one of the murderers by marriage and although she is said to have accompanied her husband to the house of the deceased on the fateful day to lure him to the scene of the crime, she hadn't actively participated in the dastardly act.
The accused was therefore freed and allowed to return home. All the condemned criminals were led away in handcuffs to a waiting Black Maria by armed security officials and prison guards.
Making their last comments as they were being led out by security operatives, Festa Nuforo wailed, 'Nze Dominic was my father!; while James Ugwuoha contended in vain with his captors for a chance to shake his wife's hand, retorting that he already knew that he would never return home alive.
When given the chance by the trial judge to offer their famous last words or plead for leniency, the convicts took turns to eulogise the deceased, describing him as 'our father and benefactor'; but showed no remorse.
In his quiet side, Evans Egbujor rues with mounting trepidation the uncertainty that has enveloped his family, with his wife, Rose currently lying in a morgue; with her people (from Awa Community in Oguta LGA) insisting that Evans murdered their daughter (while out on bail) for ritual purposes and demanding that he (Evans) swears an oath or else, face withering repercussions. Rose lies unburied still: even as Evans contemplates his date with the hangman.
As the prisoners and captives filed out of the courtroom, hand-cuffs jangling, death-silence fell upon the courtroom.
Our correspondent who managed to sidle up to Jonathan Nnadi (Elder Joe, as he is fondly called, a staff of Imo Broadcasting Corporation, Owerri) had the following exchange with him: 'Elder Joe, you told the judge today that you are an only son? Is this claim true? What about Obumneke? We understand that he is your younger brother? Isn't it true that the man you murdered is not only an only son but also an only child?" before he could respond, his jailers shepherded him away.
The journey to the hangman started when the convicted persons conspired and murdered the deceased on the 3rd of March, 2005 following a protracted land matter and other sundry community issues.
According to available reports, the condemned persons had on the said day, lured the deceased to his farm land in a bush (Okpouzi) in the village where they laid siege for him and ended his life.
In an attempt to cover up their atrocity, the murderers earlier influenced the falsification of the autopsy conducted on the corpse of the deceased, alleging that he died of a natural cause. They had also touted a traditional story of the deceased being used for rituals; the diversionary steps never yielded fruits.
Following a Federal High Court ruling, the falsified autopsy was nullified and an independent autopsy ordered. The independent autopsy is said to have revealed the actual cause of the death of Nze Duru, having died as a result of “multiple homicidal injuries…”
The matter which lingered for seven years survived all intrigues adopted by the accused persons to either buy time or pervade justice.
Reacting to the judgement, first son of the deceased, Chief Emmanuel Duru described the ruling as victory for justice, even as he commended the Judiciary in the state for maintaining its status as the last hope of a common man.
He lamented the incessant killing of innocent people in the area and called on the government to take urgent steps to sanitize the area in the interest of the citizenry.
He however urged the people to flee from evil practices and turn to God for salvation.
A visit to Izombe community in Oguta LGA of Imo State, where the crime was committed revealed that while many jubilated over the landmark ruling, especially, in neighbouring villages where similar murder cases involving most of the same convicted persons remain unresolved, families of the condemned persons were in grief.
Speaking to our Correspondent, a leader of thought in Izombe, who spoke on the grounds of anonymity expressed gratitude to God for what he described as 'justice at last'.
“My brother, finally, justice has come. This is justice at last. Majority of the people who were condemned are from Amaudara village, where the murdered Nze Duru is from. Two of them are from my village, but I am happy. Those people, especially, Amaudara people are very heartless. That was how they killed Joe Nwanyiafor, an indigene of Amakpuruedere, a neighbouring village in cold blood. Till today, the matter was closed in the most unceremonious manner. These people are members of a notorious killer-gang. God has exposed them. That is not all. Some of the members of the killer squad are still at large. One day, God will also catch them with their sponsors.”
Investigations revealed that late Nze Dominic Duru is the seventh in the series of unresolved murder cases in Amaudara village. All the murder cases were committed in the bush in Amaudara, a small village in Obeabo Autonomous community of Izombe in Oguta LGA of Imo state.
Following Justice Egole's landmark judgement, there are strong indications that relatives and friends of victims of previous unresolved murder cases in the area may raise agitations for the resuscitation of the cases of the murder of their loved ones, since they have seen that justice is possible.
Meanwhile, youths of Imo State, under the aegis of Imo Youth Congress have hailed the Judgement, describing it as victory for all lovers of truth.
National President of the Body, Comrade Prosper Nwokocha who made their position known during a telephone interview with our Correspondent also called for a review of previous unresolved murder cases in the area.
It would be recalled that following the several cases of unresolved cold blooded murder in the area, an Owerri-based tabloid (Newspoint), in one of its 2005 publications described Izombe as Imo's Golgotha.
Amaudara, the tiny village in Obeabo, Izombe, in which every other thing seems to be in short supply except misery and pain, is no stranger to mysterious disappearances, and homicide: even of a fratricidal kind.
Anthony Ezema, a village thug was felled in a cult-related killing in Amaudara in 1983; next in line was Joseph 'Joe' Nwanyiafor, from the neighbouring Amakpuruedere village whose body is yet to be found till this day. Edward Ezema (elder brother to Anthony) was later to boast during a drunken-spree that 'the easiest way to make a body disappear, together with its bones is to have it interred in an anthill'. Edward, Anthony and the just condemned Matthias 'Hitler' Ohazuruike are brothers (of the same parents).
Then, there followed Augustina Cyril-Uzoma, a middle-aged woman who left her home early in the morning to harvest cassava, only to turn up two hours later in a body-bag. Then, Francis Onyejiekwe, a middle aged farmer followed suit: his fate similar to Augustina's. It was a bountiful harvest of death.
The 7th on the list of murdered persons, Nze Duru is the only case that has been prosecuted to a conclusive end; a development many see as commendable.
James Ugwuoha-Duru had lured Nze Ohamadiaku Duru, the Patriarch of the famed Durunaegbu dynasty to the farm where he was mercilessly massacred by a gang led by Alexander Nnadi and cohorts.
Reports have it that, that same day, an old woman from the oil-rich Ugbele village in Izombe broke into tears, while in between quipping 'Amaudara, you cursed village, you have seen the last of me...so, Evans, it was Nze Duru that was being referred to when you were stridently warned by our prophet that "this abomination you are hatching presently will consume you?"
After the dastard act of eliminating Nze Duru, they commenced a scheme of plundering the farmlands and agricultural produce of the aged wife of Nze Duru (an issue that is the subject of a civil suit in Oguta High Court at the moment).
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by superstar1(m): 8:09pm On Dec 30, 2013
you can open another thread for another crime.

stup1d he-goat. if crime is what you celebrate in your desolate region, we will help you celebrate it very well.

For every stup1d rubbish you post about us, we will reply with a minimum number of 10.

if you are determined not to learn to respect others, we too we are determined to ensure you respect others by force.

the game is on.

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by eggheaders(m): 8:13pm On Dec 30, 2013
Yoruba boys una wicked after una give em Igbo afternoon beating till they call afam to come rescue them by closing the thread. Una wan give them night whipping again. Una wan make dem dey see adekunle, alabi ismah and akinrinade for their dreams. Lmao let the whipping continue joor.

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by eggheaders(m): 8:15pm On Dec 30, 2013
Superstar1 baba I need some Igbo skull to drink palmwine . After you have killed enough just parcel the skull to me. Welldone brov..

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by Femolacaster(m): 8:17pm On Dec 30, 2013
Igbo Delta: SOUTHWEST IS REALLY UNDER DEVELOPED. The yorubas need to change their fetish and primitive orientation.
U must be a m0r0n!
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by LordNaya: 8:21pm On Dec 30, 2013
I HOPE THE MOD HAVE NOT BAN IGBO DELTA ? OUR DELTA IGBO BROTHERS THEY REPRESENT WELLA
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by mike404(m): 8:23pm On Dec 30, 2013
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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by LordNaya: 8:25pm On Dec 30, 2013
Femolacaster:
U must be a m0r0n!

YOU ARE THE BIGGEST M0RON ON EARTH. IGBO DELTA IS NOT A M0RON!!! WAIT FOR OTHER IGBO E WARRIORS TO GET YOU
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by Polio: 8:26pm On Dec 30, 2013
Igbo Delta: SOUTHWEST IS REALLY UNDER DEVELOPED. The yorubas need to change their fetish and primitive orientation.

Moro..n...The crap practises is all over Nigeria, fuc...king tribalistic dunce!
Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by Nobody: 8:32pm On Dec 30, 2013
Polio:

Moro..n...The crap practises is all over Nigeria, fuc...king tribalistic dunce!
Shut up! must u always call pple names... U and Tpia shuld really get married

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Re: Confusion Pervades Ogun Community Over The Discovery Of An Underground Facility by geeez: 8:33pm On Dec 30, 2013
Has Igbo Delta run out of MBs or stories?

Or is his neck on a ritualist's guillotine in one of the numerous evil forests surrounding his erosion ravaged enclave?

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