Pictured
above is Chinedu Nweke, the 32-year-old man who allegedly murdered a
woman to avenge the serial rape of his wife. Chinedu killed 45-year-old
Philomina Nwega, a native of Ebuku Ndieze Amudda in Umuzeoka village,
Ezza North Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, on Sept 6, after his
wife was repeatedly r*ped by men in the murdered woman’s village which
he claimed led to a miscarriage. Chinedu says:
“I
am a farmer. Villagers r*ped my wife severally. And it made my wife to
have miscarriage anytime she was pregnant. I never complained about
this problem to the police. It was on September 6, 2014 in the evening
that I saw a woman coming from the farm. I waylaid her and I used my
cutlass to kill her. I cut off her head which I dumped alongside her
lifeless body into the Ogbor stream. I cut her head into pieces and
threw them into the stream. It was at Umezeoka that the people r*ped my
wife and that was where I killed the woman. Each time my wife was r*ped I
bought drugs for her but I didn’t report the incident to anybody, not
even to the village head or the traditional ruler.”
When
a report was made to the police about the death of the woman, a search
was conducted by a combined team of the police and the local vigilance
group in Achiagu, Ezza North LGA, where the suspect, Nweke, was arrested
with a blood-stained machete and clothes on September 7, 2014.
Nweke confessed to the police that he killed the woman and dumped her corpse in the stream along with the head.
Dikko
said the headless body was later recovered and taken to the mortuary of
the Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. The Assistant
Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, Mrs
Justina Ogbodo said that detectives had recovered the machete allegedly
used by Nweke to kill the woman.
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