Police detectives in Anambra
State, south east Nigera are now battling to unravel the circumstances in which Chekwube
Mbaka, an 18-year-old girl left her father’s house to buy N100 garri to serve as dinner for her family but never returned alive.
The victim was allegedly gang-raped by eight coffin makers in an
uncompleted building at Odume-layout in Obosi, Idemili North council
area of Anambra State.
Chekwube, whose family hails from Ogboji community in Ezzagu, Ishielu
council area of Anambra State, met her untimely death on the fateful
day when she was on her way back from where she had gone to buy garri for the family.
Though policemen attached to Obosi Police Division have already
arrested two of the suspects in their effort to untie the knot
surrounding the gruesome murder of the girl, her family has remained in
pains, calling for justice.
Narrating how the incident happened, father of the deceased, Mr. Mbaka told Saturday Sun how
he sent his daughter out on the fateful day after he came back home and
discovered that the house was empty and there was no food for the
entire family to eat.
He said: “When I came back that evening from work, I noticed there
was no food for the family, I managed to bring out N100 and gave to
Chekwube to buy garri for us to survive that night, I never
knew that evil was lurking around and that enemies of God are also
planning on how to eliminate my daughter. She left without any
premonition of evil but when we waited for her for too long, we became
apprehensive that she was wasting time, initially, I was angry that she
had not returned but when it got out of hand, I noticed all was not well
with Chekwube”
He further disclosed that before the deceased left for the errand,
her friend, a 20-year-old boy simply identified as Skido (not real name)
had visited the family and volunteered to escort Chekwube. Since they
were best of friends and known to the family of the deceased, they were
allowed to go but the boy ran home weeping to report that over eight
young men accosted them on their way home and forcefully took away
Chekwube and disappeared into thin air.
According to the family, when Skido alerted them that their daughter
was forcefully dragged away by the coffin makers to an unknown place,
they immediately raised the alarm and shortly after that, they
discovered the lifeless body of Chekwube, naked in an uncompleted
building.
It was at that point that the family and sympathizers noticed that
the deceased was gang-raped by the eight coffin makers now at large and
in the process of preventing her from shouting to attract passersby,
they held her by the throat leading to her death.
Her father further said: “We noticed fingerprints on her throat,
that may be because they held her down to prevent her from shouting to
attract passersby because the incident took place around 9pm, people
were still passing. They defiled my daughter and killed her in the same
place. We have alerted the police but we can’t stop crying for Chekwube,
an intelligent and obedient girl who never gave anybody headache not
even in the school nor at home”
When asked if he was suspecting anybody, Mr. Mbaka said he is
suspecting the artisans living close to his house, adding that they
might have conspired and masterminded the barbaric act, following the
alleged regular sexual demands they had made to his daughter in the
past.
However, the case has been transferred to the Divisional Crime
Bureau, DCB of Obosi Police Division where our reporter gathered that
Odume Obosi had recorded four violent rape cases leading to death, all
within a space of three months.
Meanwhile, the Divisional Police Officer of Obosi Division, CSP
Dimale J.O confirmed the incident and disclosed that two persons
including one of the coffin makers had been arrested, adding that
efforts were being made to arrest the fleeing seven coffin makers.
Culled from The Sun
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