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Aydot99:
You guys will dig up stories from the past. With no additional information from what was already known.

Go back and finish your work....what happened to Vincent Duru?
What happened to the butcher Innocent Ekeanyanwu.... is he serving time has he been released.
Is the hotel still there.

9jatruecrime:
In the mid-1990s, Imo State, Nigeria, witnessed one of its darkest crime stories ,  the Otokoto ritual killings. This tragic case was not just about a gruesome murder; it exposed how ritual practices, corruption, and greed had deeply rooted themselves in society. The events shook Owerri and left a lasting scar on Nigeria’s history.

The Otokoto ritual killings took place in September 1996 when 11-year-old Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo, a groundnut seller, was lured into the Otokoto Hotel in Owerri. He was promised business opportunities but instead met a horrifying death.

Check source for full story and how it ended. His head was severed, and his body buried ,  part of a ritual killing meant to use human parts for wealth. The Otokoto Hotel was owned by Vincent Duru, a wealthy businessman with strong political connections. The killing was carried out by one of his staff, Innocent Ekeanyanwu, who was arrested while transporting the boy’s head in a polythene bag.

9jatruecrime:
In 1990s, Nigeria laws was still strong

JaceBlaze:
Damn!

So this has long been a national pandemic.people's heads being brutally severed because it is believed you can be rich off that??

9jatruecrime:
I pray something like this should never happen again

MrJames007:
I doubt it'd stop. Prayer no fit stop am.

novia22:
The hotel is no longer there. Owerri is more developed now. Most of those properties were sold to people who had the mind to buy years later.
All their properties were confiscated by the govt and sealed. People even dreaded going to areas for fear of seeing dead bodies or skeletons. The Groundnut boy wasn't their only victim.
It was a bike man that casted the whole thing. He was the one was carrying Ekeanyanwu and saw blood dripping from the Nylon in which Anthony Ikechukwu's body parts were in. Even when citizens and the police
entered the hotel with their claims, more bodies were seen being roasted at the back of the hotel.
The death penalty verdict was made in 2003, six years after. Their execution was carried out in November 2016, 20 years after their arrest and 13 years after the death penalty verdict was issued
Ekeanyanwu died in jail. He was poisoned cos he wanted to cooperate with the police.
Leonard Unaogu died in jail under strange circumstances.
Vincent Duru died in prison.
Vincent Duru's son Obicheozor was arrested, charged, and sentenced to death by firing squad.
Ebenezer Egwueke did not show any foul play on his part, nor did he possess knowledge of the plot was acquitted in 2013; he was 62 years old at the time of his release.
They were all members of a cult called the Black Scorpion.
Don't ask me how I know. These men sent chills through my childhood. It was after this whole incident broke out, we found out one of them owned a house two houses away from ours. That is he was my F**king Neighbour.
Something like this should never be allowed to happen ever again.
Till today, I don't pass Infront of that house even though it is owned by someone else now. Something about that place still feels odd.

9jatruecrime:
Thank God for the rulers then , then hanged them that was involved to Death

ibtommy:
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Imagine!!! My Yoruba people will say: "isale oro legbin". It means the "bottom" of riches is full of "debris". The Bible also tells us how wicked the heart of a man could be. It is every individual that will decide not to be wicked. We were created to be good people, but some demon-possessed fellas chose to inflict injuries on people. Do you even know how difficult it is for some of us to slaughter an animal let alone lay hands on our fellow humans?
This is the reason I don't ever say I want to be like Mr A or Mr B. I just wanna be myself and have rest of mind.
May God judge the wicked.

9jatruecrime:
I pray something like this should never happen again

Indispensable85:
Leave money rituals for igbos

9jatruecrime:
I mean, they were hanged to Death

Blackman7:
Sadly this ritual killings are a daily occurrence and are largly under reported. A friend of mine who is into construction say, most mansions in the east always has a large pit or secret underground structure in a vast compound.

9jatruecrime:
Women can still commit such Crime too

omooba969:
Your Nigerian home videos play a big part in promoting the menace.

Ironfaceman:
Very enriching writeup and how I hope others will read and learn
Thanks,man. Hope you're good today? Have a nice time.
Seun, kindly help add the remaining characters. I dey busy now.

nedekid:
I remember that otokoto time. God save me and my paddy. I want for youth service at abia state, I remember driving through owerri enroute abia. I saw lovely hotels approaching owerri, one that caught my eyes was chibet hotel, a brand new shining syricture, in my mind I said owerri must be a goodtime zone.
After a week or so in the orientation camp, I and my new paddy in the camp decided to drive from the orientation camp to owerri from goodtime, I had called a chick who was staying with family in owerri.
We had drinks in town when it was late we started looking for hotels to stay. Omo, we landed in this otokoto hotel. We were about to pay for room, I out of the blues asked for drinks to buy, they said the bar was closed so not alcohol. That was what saved our lives. We decided not to lodge there since we wount be able to get beers.
Few weeks after orientation we decide to go home before commencing service in our places of primary assignment. I was shocked to see destruction everywhere when we drove pass owerri, even that chibet hotel had been burnt down. That was when we heard of all the crimes being commited at that otokoto hotel. That you will lodge, people will come in at night with spare keys, slaughter and the harvest organs for sale by the hotel owners son, while the remaining parts will then be used for rituals by the father.

Thereedemer:
You aware it's mere rumour

Reference:
Hmm... the place will be haunted. Should be made a sordid historical museum to the diabolical.

Naustine:
That ish was never about ritual killing.. those men were into organ harvesting. I lived at trans egbu, most of those men had houses in that hood, (now occupied by police) . It was never ritual

9jatruecrime:
In 1990s, Nigeria laws was still strong

Blackman7:
Sadly this ritual killings are a daily occurrence and are largly under reported. A friend of mine who is into construction say, most mansions in the east always has a large pit or secret underground structure in a vast compound.