A
dubious and heartless pastor in Rivers state has been arrested for
allegedly killing a church member he was sleeping while trying to
conceal her pregnancy.
Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor
Operatives of the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence
Department (SCIID) of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested the
presiding pastor of Alter of Solution Church, Izuoma community in Adam,
headquarters of Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State, Pastor
Chidiebere Okoroafor the gruesome murder of three members of his church
and an unborn baby.
Addressing newsmen at the Police headquarters in Port Harcourt on
Friday, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Cyril Okoro gave the
names of the victims as Ada Concila Ezeawa, Christabel Joseph and Uluoma
Onweagba, all females.
Okoro, who stated that the pastor killed the trio and the unborn
child in order to conceal a pregnancy he was responsible for, added that
Okoroafor had confessed to murdering the victims.
Read the press release below:
PRESS BRIEFING BY DCP CYRIL OKORO, THE DEPUTY OF COMMISSIONER OF
POLICE, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION. ON THE MURDER OF THE FOLLOWING
PERSONS.
23RD FEB, 2018
1- ADA CONCILA EZEAWA ‘F’
2- CHRISTABEL JOSEPH ‘F’
3- ULUOMA ONWEAGBA ‘F’
SUSPECT- PASTOR CHIDIBERE OKOROAFOR
OF ALTER OF SOLUTION CHURCH
IZUOMA, AFAM OYIGBO LGA, RIVERS STATE.
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS:
I welcome you again barely two days after showcasing the arrest of
the killers of Heaven Ogbogbo Ihuigwe, the PDP Chieftain from Ogbogoro
who was murdered in cold blood and his body dumped in a cassava farm at
Rumuekini.
Today I have invited you to share with you yet another achievement
by the Command where a Pastor in a most bizarre manner gruesomely
murdered three of his own flocks, including an unborn child.
The unfortunate incident started unfolding when on 11th December
2017 at about 1100hrs the whereabouts of Ada Concila Ezeawa ‘F’,
Christabel Joseph ‘F’ and Uluoma Onweagbo ‘F’ became unknown to their
close ones resulting in the lodgment of a formal complaint of their
disappearance at the Afam Divisional Headquarters.
After Preliminary Investigation by the Police coupled with diligent
search by members of the Community, the decomposing corpse of Uluoma
Onweagba ‘f’ and baby Christabel Joseph ‘f’ 9 months old were discovered
in a bush located along Afam-Igberu road on 13/12/17.
Their corpses were immediately evacuated and deposited at the
Mortuary pending further Investigation. On 18/12/17, six days after the
recovery of the corpse of Uluoma and the baby, the decomposing corpse of
the real Mother, one Ada Concila Ezeawa was recovered in an uncompleted
building at Izuoma Community in Oyigbo LGA. The corpse which had
decomposed rapidly was evacuated and deposited at a Mortuary pending
further Investigation by the Police.
Case was subsequently transferred to the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for discreet
Investigation and Report.
Investigation commenced in earnest at the State CID with the
constitution of a Team of seasoned Investigators headed by the Deputy
Commissioner of Police State CID, Port Harcourt. The above named Pastor
who was said to be having an amorous relationship with one of the
deceased, Uluoma Onweagba ‘f’ aged 25yrs was invited, interviewed and
interrogated pertaining the Murder of the aforementioned deceased
persons. He was subsequently detained as his explanations were not
convincing, particularly with the information at the disposal of the
Investigators that the deceased persons had on 11th day of December,
2017 informed close neighbours that they were going visit the pastor
over a pregnancy issue involving the deceased Uluoma Onweagba.
On the 9th of February, 2018 faced with overwhelming evidence and
facts linking him with the death of the deceased persons, the Pastor
confessed to the commission of the said murder of all the deceased
persons. Dwelling on the trust the deceased persons had on him, he
manipulated the two women on the said date of murder by first luring Ada
Concila Ezeawa to an uncompleted building while telling the other
deceased person to wait three poles away that he was coming to join her.
After strangulating the late Ada Concila Ezeawa in an uncompleted
building, he now joined Uluoma Onweagba along Afam Road where they took a
tricycle (Keke) to Afam Roundabout before taking a motorcycle (Okada)
to an isolated farm on Igberu Road and walked with her on a track road
and gruesomely murdered her in the surrounding overgrown bush, with a
baby strapped to her back. She was suffocated with the wrapper she used
in strapping the baby to her back. The baby was equally discovered dead.
The Suspect in confirmation to his confessional statements took
detectives to the various scenes and reconstructed the act of how he
snuffed lives out of them.
Autopsy has been carried out on all the corpses confirming the
cause of death. This murder is premeditated, callous and devoid of human
sympathy displayed by the suspect on his ever trusting girl friend and
fellow church member.
Suspect will soon be charged to Court.
Gentlemen of Press, once again let me thank you for coming and wish
to assure you that the command will bring to book all persons involved
in any heinous crime. I also want to thank members of the public for
their support and prompt information rendered in the course of this
Investigation.
Thank you.
DCP CYRIL OKORO
DEPUTY OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
FOR: COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
RIVERS STATE COMMAND
PORT HARCOURT.
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