Mrs. Edugwu Ogwuche
Mrs. Edugwu Ogwuche, one of the community leaders of Ipole Ugbugbu
in Owukpa community, Ogbadibo local government area of Benue State, was
on Friday murdered in cold blood in her sleep, an event which threw the
community into mourning.
According Daily Post, a co-wife to the deceased discovered her
lifeless body while sweeping the compound early in the morning and
immediately alerted neighbours, who came and saw all Ogwuche’s personal
effects scattered in both the inner and the sitting rooms.
Family sources revealed that the septuagenarian had two days
earlier been handed monetary collections of the local thrift society,
narrated that her savings boxes were broken, clothes’ boxes opened and
scattered, with the money and other valuables contained therein carted
away.
Worried by the incident, the community promptly reported the case
at the Divisional Police headquarters in Otukpa, Ogbadibo LGA. Officers
from the station came and found the woman strangled with a slight cut on
her neck.
Further investigations are said to be presently ongoing.
Edugwu Ogwuche's room found scattered after the incident
Meanwhile, members of the community are suspecting that a hardened
criminal in his twenties must have carried out the act. He is said to
have been convicted for a burglary case in Ipole Ugbugbu and sent to
Otukpo Prison where he was until last year when he was granted bail.
Daily Post reports that a family revealed that the suspect “was
seen in the village by different persons in secret places of his
hideout before the incident. And he was also sighted on a bike while
sneaking out of the community early hours of the day the incident
happened.”
It was gathered that the family has already contacted the Nigeria Police Force-Complaint Response Unit, NPF-CRU.
Anthony Igoche, a staff of Federal Air Port Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, who spoke about the killing, said, ”Mama
was a peacemaker. She had no problem with anybody in the community. She
had never for once stopped me from helping people from my community.
Each time I traveled home, mum would encourage me to welcome our people
to the house and we merry together, so I wonder who could have done this
to us.”
Igoche, however, expressed optimism that whoever was behind his
mother’s gruesome murder would be brought to book in a matter of days,
trusting that the police investigation already initiated would yield a
positive result.
Also speaking, a family member, Engr. Mayas Adoyi lamented, ”She
was a noble woman,a royal blood, an evangelist, indeed a missionary of
sort. Mama was the community peacemaker. All disputes were resolved
before her. She was kind to a fault.
”It is painful that she went to bed bidding everyone good
night. It was to be her last night on earth. The terror sneaked into her
room and tortured her to death. They tortured our Mama ! Who? Who has
brought darkness to my village? I can’t see clearly now. Cloud has
filled my eyes.
“Mama Edugwu-Ogwuche Igoche was a great Aunt. So strong, so charismatic,” Mayas, a Deputy Director said.
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