Man cuts off wife’s genitals, others for ritual

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
arrestedand 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 livingin 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.