:( Man cuts off wife’s genitals, others for ritual

ABAKALIKI — A man, Okorie Ogbafor, has reportedly murdered
his wife, Ifeoma Okorie, 26, and removed her genitals and hair
at Onicha-Isu, in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi
State, for ritual purposes.
Briefing newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Abakaliki,
yesterday, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, DSP, Sylvester Igbo, 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.
He said: “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.
“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.”
According to the Police spokesman, 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.