This news you're about reading is one that will
send shivers down your spine. The heart of man
is desperately wicked, who can know it?
A 39-year-old man, Chamberlin Ojoko who
allegedly gave his pregnant girlfriend, 25-year-
old Chinonye Ella, a local abortion concoc
tion has been arrested by the Imo State Police
Command. The concoction caused fatal adverse
reaction that resulted in her death, on July 20,
2015. Ojoko was alleged to have calmly gone
home to borrow a shovel from his brother,
Pastor Sopuruchi and buried the corpse of the
deceased girlfriend in a shallow grave, which he
dug at the back of an uncompleted building
owned by one Dr Maduakolam Ukaegbu, a
kinsman.
According to the Imo State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, the chain of events
that ultimately led to the untimely death of
Chinonye began the day she boarded the same
bus with Ojoko in December 2014, at Achingali,
in Obowo Local Government Area, Imo
State. They chatted along the way as the trip
progressed and then exchanged phone numbers.
While Chinonye lived in Umuahia, Ojoko on his
part resided in Port Harcourt. Over the
intervening period, Ojoko regularly invited her
to Owerri, where they would lodge in a hotel
and have fun. After each visit, he would give
her N3,000 to N4,000 to cover her trans
portation costs. This continued until Chinonye
informed him that she had become pregnant.
Apparently, the news that she had conceived
was not well received by Ojoko, who set about
sourcing for a local concoction, probably after
convincing her on the need to abort the
innocent unborn child.
Lakanu explained further that on July 20, 2015,
the suspect took Chinonye to an uncompleted
building at Ezeakam Eziudo, his community,
where he gave her the local abortion
concoction. Within hours, her condition became
critical as intense pain wracked her body,
particularly around the stomach.
At the headquarters of the Imo State Police
Command, where he is being held in custody
while investigations continue, Ojoko recounted
to Sunday Sun, what happened that fateful night
he gave his girlfriend the abortion
concoction. He said: "On July 20, 2015, I took my
girlfriend to an uncompleted building around
6:30pm. My girlfriend took the herbal medicine,
but later she started writhing in pain. Then she
died. I ran to my house and took a shovel; I
carried her body to the side of the building. I
dug the ground and buried her in a shallow
grave."
Believing in his heart that he had covered his
deed like Cain, who killed his brother Abel,
Ojoko returned to Port Harcourt, to the warm
embrace of his unsuspecting and pregnant wife.
But unknown to him, a certain little girl had
seen him carry out the dead body of Chinonye,
and dump it in the grave he dug. The little girl
later told the owner of the building about the
horrific crime she saw. After the shock of the
revelation wore off, Dr. Ukaegbu ran to the
Ezinihitte police station to report what he was
told by the girl.
The police station contacted the Head of the
Homicide Unit at the Imo State headquarters in
Owerri, Supol Innocent Obi, who led his men,
Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko (brother of the suspect)
and Dr. Ukaegbu, to Port Harcourt, where
Chamberlain Ojoko was arrested. Giving further
insight to the incident, brother of the suspect,
Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko, told Sunday Sun:
"I saw my brother Chamberlin Ojoko and his
girlfriend on that day around 3.00pm. They
didn't enter our house in the compound; instead
they walked toward Eziudo road. About
9:00pm, I saw that my elder brother,
Chamberlin, returned to the house without the
girl. "He requested for shovel and took it to the
bush. He didn't return till 11:00pm. I asked him
where he was coming from at that late hour; he
said he went to the toilet. I asked him, why he
came to the village without informing us. He
replied that he was working at the building site.
I saw bruises and wounds on his hand. When
information got to us that my elder brother
murdered his girlfriend, I had to take the
policemen to Port-Harcourt to arrest him."
On August 15, 2015, the body of the deceased
girlfriend was exhumed and autopsy conducted.
The policemen discovered how he used the
deceased girlfriend's cloth to choke her. There
were stains of the victim's blood at the
uncompleted building. The police also learnt
that the suspect threw away the handset of the
deceased girlfriend.
As it stands now, Lakanu said the Command is
concerned to locate the relations of the
deceased given that her handset which could
have offered assistance in this regard was
thrown away by the suspect.
"We want members of the public to assist us
and provide information that would help us find
the relations of the deceased. We learnt from
the suspect that the deceased resided in
Umuahia, Abia State, before her demise,"
Lakanu pleaded.
