Bizarre! Chief priest sacrifices varsity student at cult’s altar

Suspect in police custody
From CHUKS ONUOHA, Umuahia
Friday September 23, 2011



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Achief priest of Okonko Cult, Chief Emenike Umogariko has allegedly sacrificed a 200- level student of Political Science of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu at the altar of the cult in Umuopara village, Mkpa , Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. The victim, Ekenna Sunday Ugochukwu, had the left side of his face (including his ear) cutoff.

The machete cut exposed the victim’s teeth. His friend, who took him to the hospital before he died, Iheanyichukwu Nwokoro, told Daily Sun said he had to tear his shirt and used it to tie the dangling part of the victim’s face to his head.“We later rushed him to Tochi Hospital, Uzuakoli, where doctors rejected him, saying that his case was beyond them and referred him to Federal Medical Hospital, Umuahia.
“But before we could take him to the Federal Medical Centre, he died.”

Two other victims, who were allegedly attacked by the chief priest, managed to escape with serious machete cuts and are now at the Intensive Care Unit of Federal Medical Centre,Umuahia. The incident took place in Umuopara, a village that has common boundary with Amediaba, in Mkpa, the home town of Prof. Obioma, an uncle of the deceased. Residents of the surrounding communities expressed disbelief that an incident of that nature could take place.

Daily Sun gathered that trouble started when the Okonko priest was found guilty of a certain offence, which the fine was one goat. The goat must be slaughtered the same night and eaten by members. Members, who gathered at the Okonko’s house for the annual midnight ritual, which comes up a week after the community’s new yam festival, fined him one goat, which they converged on his house to eat as practised by the cult .

As the people were deliberating on the issue in the hall, little did they know that the chief priest had sneaked out of the hall, gone to his house and taken his cutlass. He hid the weapon under his flowing cult gown and sat in the darkest corner of the hall. He thereafter beckoned on one of those deliberating but the man refused to go, insisting that if the priest had anything to say, he should come out and say it. Daily Sun gathered further that the deliberation centred on his alleged offence, but unknown to them, the Okonko priest had a different plan.

As the chief priest delayed leaving the dark area, many of those in the hall were already dosing off when, Umogariko allegedly stood up, moved close to where the victim sat and had slept off. He drew his cutlass and dealt a deadly blow on Ugochukwu, who shouted and rushed out with the fatal wound.

The chief priest attacked a second person and a third, waving his cutlass and daring anyone to come close. Everyone took to his heels in fear, while he escaped into the bush. With his blood gushing out Ugochukwu rushed to his friend, Iheanyichukwu, pleading that he be rushed to a hospital. The victim’s friend told Daily Sun that he tried everything he could to save him but Ugochukwu died on the way to the hospital.

A relative of the victim, Dr Agu Ogbonnaya said the family was suspecting a foulplay. He alleged that it was possible that members of the cult sacrificed the university student at their altar and only gave the other two people, who are members of their own village mild machete cuts as a cover-up.

“How come that Ugochukwu, who is not from that village is the one that was killed on the spot and the others are receiving treatment at the hospital. There is more to this than the eyes can see and the family intends to get to the root of the matter. We are only waiting for the family head before we can take a step on the matter,” Ogbonnaya said.

When Daily Sun visited Umuopara village, the female goat which was seized by members of the cult, which probably sparked off the trouble was still tied inside the Okonko’s house. Daily Sun gathered that angry youths gathered in their hundreds and razed down the house of the chief priest. They apprehended and dragged him to Uzuakoli Police Station.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of state CID, Mr Micloth Joseph confirmed the incident. Joseph said the incident happened immediately after the new yam festival, adding that the suspect was in police custody. He added that investigation into the incident was going on.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/sept/23/national-23-09-2011-001.html
 

Evil people and their quest for making money

absu again! that university needs to be shut down or the campus needs to be moved - first it was the gang rape now this! having said, ritual sacrifice is a common occurence in the east as ibos would do anything for money

igbo people are not ordinary people, they are unhumaned and notorious. the second boko haram tribe we have in nigeria

The wages of cultism is death.

This is absolutely horrendous!  

God help us,today rapist tomorrow ritual killing all in abia alone,I guess this abia is now turning to the house of horror

God save us in this country,

Only in Nigeria will you hear that an hospital rejects a patient! Everytime !!!! Most of the hospitals only supply anti-malaria drugs like a pharmacy. They dont even carry test any longer. You just go they ask how you feel giv you drugs thats all , can't perform nothing!

brainpulse:

igbo people are not ordinary people, they are unhumaned and notorious. the second boko haram tribe we have in nigeria

you are very stupppid for calling all the whole igbo.ewu na amaghi ihe

I did nt quite understand the story?
How did the matcheted guy get into the hall?
Was the hall the school LT or library?
Or was he a member of the cult?

D movie 'abia state of horror',is jst in d preamble,pls don't touch dat dial and stay tuned in

So Abia is now a confirmed axis of evil

ibo pipo r cursed wit money! They can do anytin, i mean just anytin to hav money in their possession. I fear dem for dat.

. Sounds like the victim was a member of the cult.

brainpulse:

igbo people are not ordinary people, they are unhumaned and notorious. the second boko haram tribe we have in nigeria

LOL!! English no be by force oh. Yorubas no go kill me: inhumane UNHUMANED??!! Prof I hail you. You go school well well. BTW if something isn't ordinary then it exceedingly supersedes the norm, making it special. Also, this act should be prosecuted with strict punishment! fncking Okija bastards just wouldn't stop this crap.

did you say anything about opc? did you say anything about how yorubas like to cheat and take short cuts? did you say anything about yorubas burying chiefs with innocent human heads? you all just come on here with your ethnocentric mentalities.

Wages of sin is death. Men got to keep it real with God.

atasteve:

Wages of sin is death. Men got to keep it real with God.

True talk bro. But aren't you being a bit judgmental of the victim?

the same story every day, God save Nigeria

Humm na wa o!

ABSU again!

Na wa oh!

@kx, the same question i asked myself wen i read the story.

Simply chiling. Gruesome.

hmm, this is scare stiff, but it seems the victim was a member

No be small thing o.

Is it really dat strenuous for som ppl to be objective widout quite callin names n pointin rotten fingers? At least d ibo man wldn think twice about exposin an evil one,quite unlike odas who ll gladly shush it up! 1 exposed crime wld advance a country beta dan 1000 hidden ones.we noe who's got more skeletons in whose closet

This topic didn't even freak me when i read about it because it is not new from igbo land,money ritual is their idiosyncrazy,hooliganism is their desire while atrocity is their beiieve.

Kx:

I did nt quite understand the story?
How did the matcheted guy get into the hall?
Was the hall the school LT or library?
Or was he a member of the cult?

Got me wondering too.

Wahala dey ooo

brainpulse:

igbo people are not ordinary people, they are unhumaned and notorious. the second boko haram tribe we have in nigeria

the dumbest statement all day. mumu brainpulse

surprise surprise. the ibos are at it again