Otokoto again in Imo! Girl, 18, beheaded for rituals
[b]Headlines Aug 19, 2009 By Chidi Nkwopara
Residents of Owerri were Wednesday morning treated to a morbid spectacle as the police command paraded four suspects and the decomposing head of an 18-year old Chinwe Doris Perpetua Obieri, who was murdered for ritual purposes.


The bizarre scene, which was a replica of the infamous Otokoto saga of September 1996, had the prime suspect, 24-year old Emeka Uwakwe, from Ndiakunwata, Arondizuogu, Ideato North local government area of the state, clutching the decapitated head of his girl friend, Chinwe.

Speaking to newsmen, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aloy Okorie, gave the names of the other suspects as Chigamezu Anyaoha from Orodo, Mbaitoli local council area, Anthony Obioha from Lude, Ahiazu Mbaise local government area, and the medicine man, Damian Joseph from Obot Akara, Akwa Ibom State.

Mr. Okorie gave a graphic account of how the sordid crime was committed and the efforts made by the state police command to apprehend the suspects in far away Lagos State. Excerpts:[/b]“You can see we have a case of murder for ritual murder. What happened was that on Sunday, July 26, 2009, the young lady whose head you are seeing (pointing at the decapitated head of Chinwe) left her Akokwa home, Ideato North local government area of Imo State. You can see the head without the body.


Late Chinwe before her death
“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 was not pulling 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 names of the parents are Mr. Nicholas and Mrs. Theresa Obieri from Umuezeala, Umueziama Kindred in Akokwa. It was after they made the report to the police that some vigilante people on the same date, 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.

“It was at that point that the police swung into action and started making investigations. From information, we got to know that she had a boy friend who is resident in Lagos and who was seen around home within that period. So, we went to Lagos and we were able to arrest Emeka Uwakwe. You can see him now with the head of the slain girl (pointing at Emeka).

“When we now got him, he made a confession that Mr. Damian Joseph of Obot Akara in Akwa Ibom State, though he is based in Lagos also, was the one who made the charm with which, if he got the head of this girl, mix it with the charm and bury it, money will start flowing, he will start plucking money as if he was plucking fruits from the tree. That was exactly what the man did. He (Emeka) got the concoction, mixed it with the head and buried it in his room.

“We also went for the Native Doctor and got him. Meanwhile, Emeka made a confession too that it was his friends, Chigaemezu Anyaoha and Anthony Obioha, that introduced him to the Native Doctor and that he was capable of making medicine for money. They also confirmed that they had done such a medicine before with human scrotum. We do not know whether it their own scrotum or other people’s scrotum. We will surely find out in due.

“You can see the pretty 18-year old girl (displaying her photograph). I am sure if you had seen this girl when she was alive, you will weep. You will certainly weep because I have never seen a thing like that in my life. I just imagine my own daughter of that age being slaughtered for ritual purposes.

“Well, in an era where we talking about people going to live in the moon, that is the age we are in, 21st century, and people are still being fooled that they can use human head to make money. It is very unfortunate.

“Emeka Uwakwe was arrested on Wednesday last week (August 12, 2009) and when he gave us the information on how he got about the whole show, our men left for Lagos on Sunday and we were able to arrest both the Native Doctor and the other two boys. The next line of action is that they will pay the price prescribed by the laws of the land. We all know the price for somebody who has committed murder. He will pay with his own life. There is no duplicate for life. If he had the courage to kill somebody, he should also be prepared to face the consequence. He should be in a position to say if he killed her with a knife or first strangulated her before he cut off the neck.

“It is very clear that the girl deceived her parents. My advice is simple. I have a daughter of that age. I know how we monitor her. Most times, especially in this era, if she has to go out, we must let go with somebody because you never can tell. That age is a critical period in the training of children. Parents should monitor their daughters closely. It is easy to make contacts in this GSM era. I am sure that if the parents had raised alarm that very night they did not see her, may be things would have come out differently.


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This Imo ppl and money rituals again.

OgidiBoy:

This Imo ppl and money rituals again.

Leave Imo peeps alone jor

Such a pretty girl!

OgidiBoy:

This Imo ppl and money rituals again.

Bros see my hand oooo I'm not holding anybody

michelin89:

Such a pretty girl!

Is she the one that got killed?

muffins:

Is she the one that got killed?

yeah.

;d

Oh! What a pity.

Sometimes I am tired of being Nigerian. This is disgusting and I blame our leaders even though this isn't justified.

@JONA,
OBVIOUSLY,U RE BEING BIAS WITH THE WAY U STYLED UR HEADLINE AND TIED IT TO THE GOOD PPL OF IMO STATE.WORSE THINGS VE HAPPENED IN LAGOS STATE AND ELSEWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY,NOBODY TIED I T TO THE PPL OF SUCH STATE.NEXT TIME ABEG BE MORE DISCREET,A PERSON THAT HAS NOT LIVED IN IMO STATE BEFORE WILL THINK EVERYONE THERE IS A CANNIBAL AND STUFF,I VE LIVED IN BOTH IMO AND LAGOS AND IF WE WERE TO GO BY STATICS OF OCCURENCE OF WEIRD STORIES LIKE THIS ONE,U WILL AGREE WITH ME THAT LAGOS IS WAY AHEAD EVEN THE STORY HAS LAGOS CONNECTIONS BUT STILL U DONT HEAR ANY1 ASSOCIATING THE STATE WITH SUCH,SO NEXT TIME ABEG BE MATURE NOT TO INCITE UNWARRANTED FEELINGS AND RESPONSES KNOWING HOW A MAJORITY OF NL FEED ON TRIBALISM.
Notice I am writing in Caps that's becoz AM YELLING AT U!

rhymz:

@JONA,
OBVIOUSLY,U RE BEING BIAS WITH THE WAY U STYLED your HEADLINE AND TIED IT TO THE GOOD PPL OF IMO STATE.WORSE THINGS VE HAPPENED IN LAGOS STATE AND ELSEWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY,NOBODY TIED I T TO THE PPL OF SUCH STATE.NEXT TIME ABEG BE MORE DISCREET,A PERSON THAT HAS NOT LIVED IN IMO STATE BEFORE WILL THINK EVERYONE THERE IS A CANNIBAL AND STUFF,I VE LIVED IN BOTH IMO AND LAGOS AND IF WE WERE TO GO BY STATICS OF OCCURENCE OF WEIRD STORIES LIKE THIS ONE,U WILL AGREE WITH ME THAT LAGOS IS WAY AHEAD EVEN THE STORY HAS LAGOS CONNECTIONS BUT STILL U DONT HEAR ANY1 ASSOCIATING THE STATE WITH SUCH,SO NEXT TIME ABEG BE MATURE NOT TO INCITE UNWARRANTED FEELINGS AND RESPONSES KNOWING HOW A MAJORITY OF NL FEED ON TRIBALISM.
Notice I am writing in Caps that's becoz AM YELLING AT U!

Are you new here? You need to know Jona more.

We need legislation to eradicate rituals, cannibalism - Erelu Lola Ayonrinde -Raises posers on Oba Funso Adeolu’s corpse

Erelu Tunwase AyonrindeErelu Tunwase of Ode-Remo, Chief Lola Ayonrinde, who is the Otun Iyalode of Shomolu and Lagos District, and also the Yeye Akinrogun of Ikeji-Ile Ijesa was twice Mayor of the London Borough of Wandsworth. She talks to AYO-LAWAL GBENOBA on her campaign against human sacrifice and cannibalism in Nigeria. Excerpts:

WHAT is your campaign all about?
The ‘Say No To Cannibalism In Nigeria’ campaign is aimed towards eradicating the ancient and obnoxious practice of mutilating the bodies of traditional rulers after death. The rituals and sacrifices parts of the body of a dead king, especially in Western Nigeria, are used for are barbaric and a disgrace to the country in this 21st century. The movement is out to stop these evil practices which are not in consonant with the will of God and against the fundamental human rights of the affected traditional rulers. When a king dies, they say they have to give his heart to his successor on the throne to eat. They explained that it will make the new king strong and courageous but, is that not deceit? How can eating somebody’s flesh give courage to another person? They mutilate the remains of these kings and engage in fetish and obnoxious activities which add no value to anybody or the society in general.


Why do you need to feed an incoming royal father with the heart of a dead one? This cannibalism started with Christopher Colombus who believed that when a king ate the heart, or some other parts of a dead ruler, some major attributes of the dead was transferred to the new king. This is sheer cannibalism and has no place with God. And, I want the chiefs, the traditional rulers themselves and other stakeholders to know that any tradition that does not recognise God is doomed. The government must put a stop to this cannibalism going on in some parts of Nigeria because, it is even against the constitution of Nigeria. Section 38 subsection 1 of the Nigerian constitution gives every citizen the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, while section 17 subsection 26 declares that the sanctity of the human person shall be recognised and human dignity shall be maintained and enhanced. Where is the sanctity of the human person in all these? Where is human dignity?


What motivated this campaign?
I was very close to the late Alaye of Ode-Remo, Oba Funso Adeolu, the popular Chief Eleyinmi of the rested Village Headmaster soap opera. Few months after his death on August 21, 2008, he started appearing to me and I had months of traumatic haunting. In his lifetime, Oba Adeolu was a Christian and he made it known that he did not partake in anything fetish during his installation as king. He explicitly, several times, demanded that when death came calling, his corpse should be handed over to his family so that he could be given a proper Christian burial. However, his corpse was not released to the family. After his death, he appeared to me several times, and kept telling me about many things. He said his corpse was handed over to the ‘odis’ (slaves) who treated it like that of a criminal. They took bits and pieces of his remains for their own use while some parts were distributed to the four corners of the town.


It was while going round that I discovered what happened and I met some chiefs who confessed what happened but asked me to forget it because there was nothing we could do about it.


All the ‘odus’ of Ifa do not approve using human beings as sacrifice, the constitution does not approve and to crown it all, God Almighty frowns at this practice, they are doing it to appease whom? Some of the kings today are enlightened and those who are born again Christians, like Oba Adeolu, are renouncing these things. So, why hold on to an obnoxious and barbaric act? Oba Adeolu believed he would be given a decent burial and that is why his ghost has refused to rest. Even in Ijebuland, these things were abolished years ago and Ijebuland under the Awujale agreed they would bury kings according to their religion.


So, how do you hope to stop the practice?
We are canvassing that our traditional rulers should be buried whole, without being mutilated and it should be in the open. There is secrecy because of the evils attached. It is untenable scientifically that the heart is eaten for so and so reasons. To start with, let us have the installation of kings in the open, no aspect of the installation should be shrouded in secrecy. It should be a celebration of our culture so, why should it be shrouded in secrecy? When everything becomes transparent, it will even help younger ones to know more about our culture and we will be able to restore some of our societal values. Why should obas be laid to rest in a paganic manner? If a governor gives staff of office to a king, giving him recognition and authority, that king is under the governor so, why should the government condone barbarism in this age? The ministry of local government and chieftaincy affairs should do something about this, if not, the government is endorsing cannibalism. True that some of the kings went through these rituals during installation but those who opted out should be given that grace of opting out of the rituals in death. They should be buried according to their faith. The practice is a disgrace to the whole of South West because it is common there.


We are appealing to the traditional rulers who were installed through cannibalism to renounce it publicly and declare they don’t want their hearts to be eaten or other parts of their bodies to be used for any form of ritual. Abolition of slave trade took place years ago. So, why do we still have some people in Ode calling themselves slaves (‘odis’)? We need legislation to stop the barbaric act and we are appealing to our lawmakers to rise up to this task of eradicating cannibalism in Nigeria. There should be a law backing a king to opt out of fetish installation and burial and it should become an offence for anyone to tamper with the remains of a king, for whatever purpose, or to give the body to the ‘odi’ for rituals. The penalty should be without an option of fine so that the perpetrators would know how grave the offence is. The ‘odi’ in Ode can be given money to buy goat, ram, cow, or whatever they need for sacrifice, if they must, but there must be total abolition of human sacrifice in the country. Efforts are being made by some Ogun State traditional rulers to stop it but some feel the fetish practice must be protected. The government must detach itself from it.


Internationally, human sacrifice, cannibalism, witchcraft and sorcery are illegal so, why should it be done with impunity in Nigeria, a country that is known as the giant of Africa? Infact, politicians should begin to include the abolition of cannibalism in their campaign programmes, and party manifestos by 2010.


What efforts have you made so far to network and get people involved?
We give glory to Almighty God. I have spoken to so many kings who secretly don’t want it and we are telling them that they should make an open declaration against these evil practices. The campaign would be boosted if they do because people believe they all knew and agreed to these evil practices before being installed. We now call on the royal fathers again, in the name of Almighty God, to declare publicly that they don’t want these fetish practices to continue. I have carried the campaign to the international level so that Nigerians of affluence who are in diaspora would lobby the lawmakers and get a legal backing for the campaign to eradicate human sacrifice and cannibalism in Nigeria. A number of international media like the BBC have aired my interview on the campaign and some Nigerian people abroad are involved in the lobbying for a legislation to stop the obnoxious practices.


We call on the ‘oluwos’ and ‘odis’ in Ode to review the entrenched ill that has no value to the society. We appeal to them to accept cows and goats and allow our royal fathers to be buried according to their beliefs. Then, it was about time that the royal fathers are constituted into the House of Royals, like the House of Lords, so that they would have more power, say and patnership in governance. This would help them to contribute meaningfully to issues affecting them and the society at large.

spikedcylinder:

I'm sure she spent a tidy sum on her hair before her head was cut off by her greedy boyfriend. So sad.

OH MY FREAKING GOD

Is that her head? I tot that was a masquerade! God ,Wot abt the people that sent them Because this ones im looking at should be the babalawo & co, They are suppose to be killed , But Nigeria , They will only tell you the beginning of a case and not the end

jumobi1:

Sometimes I am tired of being Nigerian. This is disgusting and I blame our leaders even though this isn't justified.

I swear

;d

God!, I'm affraid for all my family members back in Nigeria oh!

These guys should be placed in a grinding machine and they should be shreded to pieces, dried and burnt.
Pls we need laws passed against ritual killing, police/military brutality.

Igbo people and money. May her gentle soul rest in peace,

Damn!, I cant take this shit off my mind, the big question is that how many Igbos or Nigerians Live with such dark secrets GOD help us.

yeswecan:

Igbo people and money. May her gentle soul rest in peace,

dinggle:

Damn!, I cant take this shit off my mind, the big question is that how many Igbos or Nigerians Live with such dark secrets GOD help us.

Bode George na Igbo abi, he does not like money, OBJ na igbo, do you know how many people they have sacrificed.

OgidiBoy:

This Imo ppl and money rituals again.

Ogidi boy, Okija shrine na Imo abi.

This has featured on nairaland before, this is repeatation. rip

'Erection drove cannibal to machete murder'


Lagos - A Nigerian man has been arrested after he killed a woman and ate her stewed intestines in a bid to cure an abnormally persistent erection, police said on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for Osun state police said 50-year-old Folorunso Olukotun had led officers to his victim's disembowelled body in the bush near his home village in south-west Nigeria.

"According to the man's story, his private organ always has an erection and it doesn't go down," Oluwole Ayodeji said. "Someone advised him to kill a woman and eat her intestines."

Olukotun ambushed his victim, a woman in her forties unknown to her attacker, on a path near her village. He attacked her with a machete, killed her, and took her intestines home, Ayodeji said.

'He seems to have believed them'
"He cooked them like a sort of stew and ate them with pounded yam," he said. "When the police arrived he was very open, we have his whole confession on tape and he has been remanded in custody."

The spokesperson said that police believe that someone had jokingly suggested cannibalism as a cure for Olukotun's problem, in the belief that he would never carry out such a killing.

"He seems to have believed them," he said. Police could not say whether the erection has now subsided. - Sapa-AFP

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1022058361787B252&set

mekusxxx:

'Erection drove cannibal to machete murder'


Lagos - A Nigerian man has been arrested after he killed a woman and ate her stewed intestines in a bid to cure an abnormally persistent erection, police said on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for Osun state police said 50-year-old Folorunso Olukotun had led officers to his victim's disembowelled body in the bush near his home village in south-west Nigeria.

"According to the man's story, his private organ always has an erection and it doesn't go down," Oluwole Ayodeji said. "Someone advised him to kill a woman and eat her intestines."

Olukotun ambushed his victim, a woman in her forties unknown to her attacker, on a path near her village. He attacked her with a machete, killed her, and took her intestines home, Ayodeji said.

'He seems to have believed them'
"He cooked them like a sort of stew and ate them with pounded yam," he said. "When the police arrived he was very open, we have his whole confession on tape and he has been remanded in custody."

The spokesperson said that police believe that someone had jokingly suggested cannibalism as a cure for Olukotun's problem, in the belief that he would never carry out such a killing.

"He seems to have believed them," he said. Police could not say whether the erection has now subsided. - Sapa-AFP

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1022058361787B252&set

Seriously I just puked. that is so sick. may that poor womans soul rest in peace.

may that poor womans soul rest in peace

Amen.

May the force of Karma demand retribution and far reaching consequences upon those whose hands are stained by her blood, whether by immediate or remote connections.

Amen to that also.

what is happening to Nigeria?? chei!

To Spike and Sexy,

Has the girl been buried? If she has, please go ahead and modify your posts to exclude the parade of her head. I understand you have rights to expression. . .but please, for the sake of this girl's soul and her parents and relatives, I beg you to remove the savage pictures. She sufferred too much, we need to let her head rest in peace and with her Lord. Her full body picture is okay to display, that is helpful in giving dignity back to her persona, even in death.

only in nigeria

Only Ibos!