The remains of seven-year-old twin boys reportedly killed for money rituals, have been recovered from separate shallow graves in Oko-Ogbele community in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State.
According to Sahara Reporters, two relatives
of the boys' father reportedly conspired with a neighbour, abducted and killed
the victims identified as Chiagozi Agwunobi and Chidelu Agwunobi.
It was gathered that the incident which took
place last Tuesday had left the family in anguish and thrown the entire
community into mourning.
Narrating the tragic incident to the
publication on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, Mr.
Olise Agwunobi, father of the deceased twins, lamented how his uncle and
his cousin conspired with his neighbour to kill his two children for money
rituals.
He said the family were still confused and in
shock as the tragedy was hard to fathom.
According
to him, he returned home from work one evening and could not find twins as they
hardly went out of the house after school.
“It was around 7 pm when they did not return
to the house that it dawned on us that something was not right. So my wife and
I raised an alarm to the entire community that we could not find our children.
Before then, we had visited their school teachers and families of fellow
schoolchildren and confirmed that they had come back home from school,” the
grieving father narrated.
"So, immediately the community formed
search parties to look for the children and for four days, everybody looked for
them," he said, adding that one of his neighbours later informed them that
he saw his cousin with the twins but could not say where they were taken
to,"
The bereaved father said the killers of his
children later confessed that on that fateful day, they went to the boys’
school to abduct them. And when they did not find them, they went to their (the
Agwunobis) house to wait for them.
He identified the suspects as Chukuwdi
Edemuzor, Nwanozie Uzor and Onuwa Ajie.
According to him, Chukwudi is his cousin,
Nwanozie is his uncle and Onuwa is his neighbour.
Giving more insight into the incident,
Agwunobi said, "They went to look for the children in their school but
they couldn't find them as the children had come back. So, they came to my
house, lured the children out and abducted them.
"Then they took them to the bush where
they killed them and took some parts of their bodies."
Another family member, Chimeize, who was part
of the search parties said that the killing of the twins had left a deep wound
in their family, adding that such an incident had never happened in the
community and its environs.
He said when they heard that one of their neighbours
was with the children, "we felt that maybe they had been kidnapped, not
knowing that we were in for a bigger surprise. So, they killed the two boys,
collected their parts and disappeared from the community," he said.
Continuing, Chimeize said, "So as we
were looking for them, thinking that they had been kidnapped, one of the
neighbours told us that he saw his brother when he was with the children.
"It was the younger brother of one of
those that killed him that leaked the secret to us that he saw his brother with
the twins. So, as we were looking for them, we thought it was kidnapping till
four days later, when one of those that killed the children, a family brother
(cousin) called and said that they had killed the twins and kept their bodies
in a particular place.
"Then, the community announced that
everybody should go into the bush in search of their bodies. We didn't go far
into the bush when we saw a grave where they had buried one of the twins. We
called him back and asked him about the other twin. Then he directed us to
another place where they kept the other twin.
"At that point, we called the police and
they came and took the bodies away. We believe that it was the spirit of the
children that haunted him and made him tell the family where they killed and
dumped their bodies.
"The leader of the ritualists is
Chukwudi Edemuzor and that is the one we are still looking for. The one that
gave us the information, Nwanozie Uzor and Onuwa Ajie have been arrested,"
he added.
Chimeize said the suspects confessed that
they killed the twins for money rituals.
"They said they wanted to make money and
riches," he said.
"The two that were arrested have told
the community that their leader is Chukwudi Edemuzor and that he was the one
who sent them to bring two male children with dreadlocks for money rituals and
that was how they came and picked the children because they had dreadlocks,"
he added.
Noting that the remains of the deceased twin
boys had been recovered and deposited in the mortuary, Chimeize further
disclosed that their killers “cut off their tongues, hair, one finger each from
the boys and plucked out one of their eyes each”
"Also, where they dumped their bodies,
they left N40, probably that was part of the rituals but the police have taken
the money," he said.
He said the family later heard that the
suspects had been telling their friends and others that before December 2023, they
would be stinking rich.
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