Chizoba Michael Nwobodo’s
inordinate ambition to get rich
quick has left two families in
deep sorrow and anguish. The
24-yr-old gruesomely
murdered two young boys and
harvested their vital organs
for money making rituals.
He’s a kidnapper, armed robber
and ritual killer who hails from
Umualaguroyi Uhueze Nenwe
village in Aninri West Local
Government Area of Enugu State.
He committed the heinous
crimes between August and
October this year.
In the first incident, which
occurred in Ohuhu, Abia State on
August 7, 2013, he abducted
Emmanuel Nwobodo, the nine-
year-old son of his uncle,
Nnamdi Nwobodo, immediately
the boy returned from school at
4.00pm on that fateful day. He
took the boy into a nearby bush,
beheaded him and proceeded to
harvest his kidneys, lungs, heart
and genitals. Done with the
horrible act, he calmly dumped
the boy’s dismembered body on
the bank of a nearby river.
When evening came and the boy
had still not returned from
school, the parents started
searching for him. Chizoba even
joined in the search for the
unfortunate boy. When he could
not be found, his parents
reported the matter to the police
at Isikwuato Police Station, Abia
State.
Later, Chizoba made a call to his
uncle, informing him thus: “I told
my uncle that I kidnapped the
child at 4.00pm, that if he can
pay me ransom of N300,000 I
would release the child to him.
He paid me N200,000. After
some time, I called my uncle
again and demanded another
sum of N200,000. I told him to
sell his land, but my uncle
refused to pay the money. At the
time I was demanding the
money, I had already killed the
child.”
On October 11, 2013, barely two
months after murdering nine-
year-old Emmanuel, Chizoba
again abducted another child,
Promise Uwakwe, a five-year-
old boy as he was returning
from school. This time around,
he enticed the innocent boy with
biscuits, dragged him into the
bush and when the obviously
startled boy began to scream
after sensing danger, Chizoba
quickly strangled him to death
and then removed the boy’s vital
organs.
Promise’s father, Mr Ngozi
Nwakwe said the family became
worried when the boy’s school
uniform was found on the
ground but he could not be
found. After the first day, he
reported to the police at Anniri
Police Post and the policemen
joined in the search for the
child. When the child was not
found after three days, the case
was transferred to the Anti-
kidnapping Squad of the Enugu
State Police Command.
Like the well-known Otokoto
ritual killing incident that
occurred in 1996 in Imo State,
the blood of the gruesomely
murdered innocent little boys
cried unceasingly before the
Throne of the Almighty for
justice.
“It was when the suspect
demanded N3 million ransom
from us that we alerted the
police and they rounded him up
and he confessed to them that
he had killed my son and
removed his genitals lungs,
kidneys and heart and then
dumped him inside a water tank
from which we recovered his
corpse,” Nwakwe said in
anguish.
Enugu State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Abubakar Adamu who
narrated Chizoba’s murderous
escapades to Sunday Sun
revealed that the suspect was
exposed when he called Mr
Nwakwe and demanded N3
million ransom for the boy. The
family refused and reported to
the police.
CP Adamu said the Commander
of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad,
Alex Akinlalu, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP)
and his team swung into action
and arrested Chizoba at his
village.
In a brief chat after his arrest by
the police, Chizoba told Sunday
Sun “I am a kidnapper, armed
robber, ritualist, artist and
musician. I traveled to India in
2013 to acquire power so that
anything I engage in will
prosper. I spent one month and
one week in India. I needed
money, so I contacted a
herbalist who told me that if I
wanted to make money I should
look for two boys and two girls
between the ages of four and
nine years old for money ritual.”
Continuing, he said: “I used the
two boys for the ritual. I bought
red candle, blue candle, black
candle, white candle and other
ritual materials and did some
incantations after which I threw
the human parts into the bush.”
Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth
Nwobodo, mother of Emmanuel,
the first victim, is crying and
calling on the government to
ensure that justice is done and
she has been assured by CP
Adamu that the suspect would
definitely be charged to court for
his heinous crimes at the
conclusion of investigations.
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