By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA—A 29-year-old man, Ekene Ucheagwu, who killed his 65-year-old mother, Agnes in her home at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State was yesterday paraded by men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu.

Ekene, a cobbler, said he had to kill his mother because she was using witchcraft to block the progress of her surviving four children.

Narrating his story, the suspect said: “I decided to kill her because she did not allow the spirit of God to come into our family.

”Once she cursed anybody, that person will never progress and she was doing it to my brothers and sisters very often.

“I am the only one among her six children (two later died) that knew her secrets. My elder brother, who is 45 years old is yet to get married and nobody in our area agrees to marry any of my sisters or their daughters to marry any of us.

“When I confronted her by calling her ‘queen of the coast’, she tried to kill me, having known that I knew her secrets and that was why I decided to kill her first.

“I hit her on the head with a big stick at night and she slumped and died and I carried her in a wheelbarrow that night to the Obukwu bush in my community where I burnt her body to ashes.”

He said that after some days of the incident, some people in the community, who did not see her, began to suspect that something terrible had happened, but they could not prove anything, adding that when he could not explain the whereabouts of his mother, the villagers banished him from the community.

Ekene said he fled to Aba, Abia State where he continued with his business until men of SARS arrested him.


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Lazy people always look for who to blame. When his mates dey go school, he probably dey do masquerade for village. Tell me how such person will survive. Does witchcraft stop his monthly salary if he had got a formal education and a good job? Ignorance has finished most Nigerian youths

The guy has overstepped his bounds...killing his own mother

This guy would have used the mother for money ritual as they usually do in Anambra and other Igbo speaking states instead of wasting the woman's life for nothing. Na wa ooo!