Tongues are currently wagging in Ibusa
community, Oshimili north local government
area of Delta State following the death of a
23-year- old undergraduate of the state-
owned university.
The victim, Josephine Igbokwe, it was reliably
gathered, had gone to visit her boyfriend in
the same community when she was
mysteriously hacked to death by unidentified
gunmen.
It was further gathered that the victim had
passed the night with her boyfriend, Nnamdi
Okolie, last Friday and on the following
morning was on her way home to her parents'
house when she was allegedly attacked by
suspected ritualists who removed a vital part
of her body.
Sources said that the parents of the victim
was not informed early enough of the incident
as the boyfriend allegedly took the corpse to
the state -owned mortuary claiming she was
sick and died.
But this was not to be when during nightfall,
the victim was yet to return home. Confirming
the incident, police public relations officer in
the state, Mrs Celestina Kalu, said the police
acted on a tip off when the incident was
reported at the Ibusa police division and the
police swung into action to confront the
boyfriend who could not give details of her
whereabouts.
She said that the boy was arrested and upon
interrogation, confessed that the girl was
hacked to death on her way home by
unidentified ritualists who removed vital parts
of her body. While saying that investigation
was ongoing, Kalu said that the suspect was
currently helping the police in its investigation
and would be charged to court when
investigation was completed.
In a related development, the police in
Onitsha, Anambra State at the weekend
arrested a man identified as Chukwudi
Eugene, for allegedly stealing a six- month-
old male child at Ose-Okwudu market in the
area.
Confirming the incident, the divisional police
officer,central police station, Onitsha, Mr Isah
Abubakar, said the suspect was arrested
around Abuja motor park when vigilante group
members intercepted him with the baby.
