Abia Discovers 30 Bodies Of Suspected Ritu@l K!lling Victims

More than thirty bodies of victims of suspected ritual killings have been discovered in the Imo River in the Oriendu autonomous community, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State in the last year.

Following the discovery of another woman’s body, HRH Eze Philip Ajomiwe, the community’s traditional ruler, revealed this information to reporters in his palace.

Eze Ajomiwe said: “The bodies, like the recent one, are either completely naked and without their private parts or in a bag. There have also been cases of two decomposing bodies seen beside the NNPC pipeline.

“The victims are mostly young girls. The ritualists from Imo usually come at night to dump the bodies of their victims inside the Imo River, and in the morning, we wake to see them.”

The king was worried that things were becoming out of control and that the community was becoming afraid. There haven’t been any arrests yet, he added.

According to him, the community’s vigilante group’s attempts to apprehend the culprits had also failed since they lacked the necessary equipment.

“So, we’re appealing to the state government to empower the vigilante group with the necessary logistics and the wherewithal to enable it to match the suspects,” he said.

He stated that his protests about the situation to security agents had been ineffective, with the most recent being a letter to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly on February 7.

“We have reported even to the DSS, and they came here and held a meeting with us. We need the Government’s intervention to apprehend those behind this atrocity.”

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