Son Kills 82-Year-Old Mum For Money Ritual In Anambra

The Anambra State Police Command has arrested one Christopher Okadigbo of Nando Community in Anambra for allegedly killing his 82-year-old mother for ritual in a bid to get rich quick.

Tolasblog reports that Okadigbo, 52, was arrested with his friend, Ameke Udolu, after they killed Mrs Rosaline Okadigbo and decapitated her body for money ritual.

The left eye and heart of the victim were removed when her corpse was found in her apartment at Nando in the Anambra East Local Government Area on May 2.

The first son of the deceased, Chief Innocent Okadigbo, who confirmed the development on Wednesday at Nando told tolasblog that he was convinced that his younger brother’s motive was to use their mother’s body parts for ritual to get rich quick.

Innocent said that his late mother had called him on May 1 to report suspicious moves by Christopher his younger brother and Udolu around her apartment on May1.

According to Innocent, minutes after Aniefule’s call my brother Christopher, who stopped relating with me since 1999 also called to inform me of the incident, claiming that he travelled to Mina, Niger State from where people at home broke the news to him.

Aniefule corroborated the account given by Innocent Okadigbo, saying: “I raised alarm which attracted people in the neighbourhood and later telephoned his first son Innocent on the gruesome killing of his mother.

“As people rushed to the scene, we saw Ameke Udolu coming out from one of the rooms of late Mrs Roseline Okadigbo and we held him.

“We collected his phone and uncovered some incriminating telephone communications between Udolu and Christopher, the second son of the deceased.

Aniefule said that due to the revelation from the phone conversation between the two, an irate crowd started to beat up Udolu.

He said that it was the intervention of the president-general of the community and the arrival of security operatives, who later arrested the duo that saved them from being lynched.

The President-General of Nando Community, Chief Ignatius Aghadinuno, said that when he got to the home of the deceased on May 2, he saw the corpse of Roseline and aggrieved villagers as well as Udolu.
Aghadinuno, however, appealed to the police to do thorough investigation on the matter to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime were not left off the hook.

Chief Uyammadu Anaeliaku, younger brother to the deceased, told tolasblog that Christopher had been fetish and appealed to government to assist the family by compelling him to exhume some charms he buried around their compound.

A senior police officer, who visited Nando on Wednesday over the development, referred journalists to the police headquarters in Awka for information on the matter.