Both luck and the popular Yoruba saying that, 'train your child to give you rest of mind' worked against Mrs. Martina Usha, a 57-year- old resident of Maraban Rido, a suburb of Kaduna, as her son she laboured so hard to give the best of education butchered her like a cow and dumped her dismembered body in a well.

Although the incident occurred mid last month, but skeletal details were at the disposal of Crimewatch until recently, when our reporter succeeded in speaking with the 34 years old suspect, Emmanuel Usha, at the Kaduna Police Command Headquarters.
Crimewatch gathered that Martina was the first wife of Engineer Godwin Usha and a mother of three children. Her first child, a girl, was said to have died at the age of 15, leaving the woman with two boys, Emmanuel and his younger brother.

A source close to the Usha family disclosed how the suspect had been passionate about blood or had been using blood for something which is not yet known to people. According to him, Emmanuel had always loved draining blood from animals, right from his Secondary School days."Emmanuel had at one time, killed a dog in their compound, drained its blood and kept it in his room for use which is best known to only him. He did the same thing to a cat which was even very friendly with both the young and old in the compound," he recalled.

Though, the suspect had allegedly had series of quarrels with his late mother and even hit her with shovel, no one, including his parents suspected he could butcher his biological mother in such a dastardly manner. The recent problems which resulted in the death of Mrs. Martina, was said to have begun, after she relocated from Ungwan Television, where she lived with her husband, to her apartment in Sabo Tasha. Crimewatch gathered that it was at Sabon Tasha that Emmanuel made the first attempt to murder her. That was the time he allegedly used shovel to hit her on the hand.

According to the same source, there were several other unsuccessful attempts by the suspect to kill her, before the recent one, which led to death of the hapless woman. Investigation further revealed that the four bedroom flat, where deceased was eventually butchered was built by her, after her retirement as a senior staff of Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC). She was said to have moved into the house with Emmanuel and his sibling.
Report also had it that before she met her untimely death, there was a face-off between her and the suspect, immediately she returned from where her younger son was receiving medical treatment.

Another source, who lives close to late Martina's house told our reporter how she was passing by that fateful Monday evening and heard a faint shout from someone, who was screaming for help, adding that nobody could enter into the compound because of the high fence. The source, who preferred anonymity added: “Small time, we no hear the noise again and we come think say, everything don dey okey." She explained that the woman ceased screaming, adding that since they were sure that her son was inside the compound, they had no reason to be worried until they reported her missing the following day.

Another source disclosed that Emmanuel never reported his mother's disappearance to anyone, including her church members and friends, until some concerned members of her church saw him outside and asked after her. He was said to have snubbed them and that was how people began to suspect foul play. The source further added: "Reaching Wednesday morning, Reverend Father Mark, the Priest of the Mission, became apprehensive and queried what must have gone wrong that made Mrs. Martina Usha, who never missed any morning devotion to be absent? The concern for Mrs. Martina’s wellbeing compelled her closest friend, Veronica Umah and Volunteered Catechist, Michael Iheoma, to immediately rush to her house, where they met Emmanuel, and asked after his mother.

They met her son, (Emmanuel), asked him after his mother and he was said to have responded in a very harsh tone, which gave them the impression that something must have gone wrong.“When we went to the house, I spoke with him and asked after his mother and he responded harshly, saying, ‘my mother has not come back’.” It was further gathered that shortly after that, some youths from the church also came to the house , where they saw him mopping the floor, a development which gave more room for suspicion. According to them, they knew the suspect was not known to be humble enough to get involved in domestic chores, such as mopping of the floor.

But out of annoyance, occasioned by the insistence of church members on knowing Mrs. Martina's whereabouts, Emmanuel rushed to Ungwan Television to inform his father for the first time, about her mother's disappearance.
And when Engineer Usha rushed to Maraban Rido and did not see his wife, he quickly reported the matter to the police. Crimewatch checks, however, revealed that the following day, a member of the Communication Committee of the St. Simon Catholic Church, Brother Godwin Boi, and the Chairman of the Committee, Brother David Adayi, came to the house and desperately carried out a search and suddenly concentration of houseflies at the back of the house where a well is situated.

The discovery was said to have compelled them to open the well and offensive orduor oozed out.
It was the offensive odour that made them to order Emmanuel to fetch some water from the well for scrutiny.
And when he fetched it, he testified by that it had a foul odour. And before they could ask further question, he had taken to his heels. But unfortunately for him, he ran into the waiting hands of some angry youths, who were desperately waiting outside the gate to be furnished with the latest information on the matter.
He was later handed over to the police, after parts of his late Martina's body were recovered from the well by some experts.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/crimewatch/2011/dec/29/crimewatch-29-12-2011-001.html

Truly we are in the end times.

We hear this on the news in the UK almost daily.

Sad indeed.

Horrible. . .

Lord have mercy! What sort of wickedness exists in the heart of man *sighs*

Boko Haram!

Shyyt!!

It was written, Nation shall rise against Nation, Father against Son, Son Against Parents, brother against brother/sister, ethnic group against ethnic group (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) is all there in the Bible except those that don't read theirs. The word of God is true and nothing can stop it from coming to pass, the question is; are you prepared because it can be anyday/anytime just like the faithful worshipers saw theirs in Madalla God help us all to be prepared for his coming.

HOPE NIGERIA WILL NOT END IN 2012

HOPE NIGERIA WILL NOT END IN 2012

It will end soon but maybe not in 2012 i am looking at 2014 or so

Well, USA predicted it before but everyone quick to jump on USA because of oil. Nigeria will become Sudan soon.

d boy will go 2 hell no dout about it,he will not go unpunished mark my word.

The guy is suffering from undiagnosed mental disease

God have mercy on us. Thats gruesome .

frosbel:

Truly we are in the end times.
We hear this on the news in the UK almost daily.
Sad indeed.

chibest5:

It was written, Nation shall rise against Nation, Father against Son, Son Against Parents, brother against brother/sister, ethnic group against ethnic group (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) is all there in the Bible except those that don't read theirs. The word of God is true and nothing can stop it from coming to pass, the question is; are you prepared because it can be anyday/anytime just like the faithful worshipers saw theirs in Madalla God help us all to be prepared for his coming.

chibest5:

It will end soon but maybe not in 2012 i am looking at 2014 or so

OvieE:

Well, USA predicted it before but everyone quick to jump on USA because of oil. Nigeria will become Sudan soon.

utelee:

d boy will go 2 hell no dout about it,he will not go unpunished mark my word.

Nigerians!Smh

wtf??

A case of serious Wacko! Rest in peace poor woman.

he must b a ritualist

sugar 001:

Boko Haram!

Na wa o! who be d BH for dis mata? The mum or the son? The two of them are xtians now! A lot of mentally retarded guys nowadays. May God protect us o!

Nope nope, the boy is not hell bound yet except the god who owns that hot spot is on his quite frequent blood hound again. The dude is obviously psychotic and critically deluded. Access to substances like marijuana has also contributed to the complete mental malaise he finds himself. The parents should have long sought psychiatric help for him before it got to this sad end. Anyone who knows anything about psychosis knows that its only a matter of time before the affected harm someone; usually a very close "someone".
His place is not at the gallows but at a functional sanitarium. It is not a criminal offence to be mentally ill but it is somewhat criminal negligence for sane family members to allow a psychotic son roam about the streets.
I feel sorry for the woman, she must really love her son to harbor a psycho in her home despite the several attacks.

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uss25dec:

he must b a ritualist

Guy read the story well, u go know say the guy dey suffer from mental problem.

evilvevil

Sad as this is, what did the mother do when her son was draining the blood of animals.

This lunatic should have been locked away forever. he was a disaster waiting to happen, sad that he took his mother's life.

Really sad.

frosbel:

Truly we are in the end times.

We hear this on the news in the UK almost daily.

Sad indeed.

No we don't!

which part of the UK are you living in and what BBC news Channel are you listening to that tells you the story of someone butchering the parent almost every day?

You shouldn't make unfounded statement like that,

This is unfair! It must be stop in dis country.

Nigeria's version of DRACULA the VAMPIRE

How can a 34 old man be living with his mum? I think he is just a spoilt bra that went insanely frustrated.

This is horrible

my thoughts exactly,

this is bad.

they ignored the warning signs. the guy needed help and didn't get it till this gruesome murder.

my father my father!!!!!!!!!