The decomposed body of 84
year-old Madam Adiza Ogbo,
wife the traditional ruler of
Abba- Igogoro community,
Igboeze North Local
Government Area of Enugu
State, who was abducted by
unknown gunmen since
September 14, this year, has
been recovered from a shallow
grave by operatives of the state
police command.
Late Adiza, the mother of the
former Commissioner for
Chieftaincy Affairs in
EnuguState, Chief Goddy Ogbo,
was kidnapped, four days after
some armed men invaded the
palace and inflicted machete
cuts on her husband, Omale
before shooting at three other
persons in his palace at 8pm.
The traditional ruler was said to
be having a meeting with some
people in his Igogoro palace
when the gunmen struck. Igwe
Ogbo was said to have been
reportedly given three machete
cuts on his head.
84 year-old Madam Adiza Ogbo
killed
The aged woman was said to
have died in the hands of her
abductors a week after she was
taken from her home at
gunpoint to an unknown
destination. Leader of the
kidnap gang now in police net,
one Paschal Onah alias Achisa
who was arrested along with a
native doctor and seven
members of his gang,
confessed that the woman died
in their hands and was buried
in a grave which he dug in his
compound for kidnap victims.
The police said that the
woman’s decomposed body
was recovered from the said
grave following a confessional
statement by the suspects who
were rounded up by men of the
state police command.
The State Police spokesman,
Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, who
confirmed the arrest of the
suspects and the recovery of
Mrs. Ogbo’s corpse yesterday,
likened the incident to the
popular saying that “every day
is for a thief but one day is for
the owner of the house.”
He said that the “dare devil
kidnappers with their native
doctor that prepares charm for
them in order not to be caught
and for them to be succeeding
in their evil perpetrations and
possibly be escaping when
security operatives strikes are
now in custody.”
According to him, the
operatives of the Anti
Kidnapping Unit arrested the
nine notorious kidnappers and
the native doctor in the course
of investigation into the kidnap
of the royal father’s wife.
“Following the kidnap of the
woman who is believed to be
about 84 years, Commissioner
of Police Enugu state
command, Adamu Abubakar
Mohammed directed a full scale
investigations which has
hitherto led to the arrest of nine
suspects namely Paschal Onah
alias Achisa, Uche Ugwu,
Chinwendu Adonu, Chikodi
Idoko, Martin Okpe a native
doctor, Mamman Okechukwu,
Ofobuike Okpe, Christain Onah
and Friday Eze.
“They were arrested after a
severe gun duel with the
operatives recently when they
were tracked to their hideouts
with some of them sustaining
injuries,” he said. Amaraizu
said that the leader of the
gang, Paschal Onah, had
revealed how he and his gang
members carried out the kidnap
of the late Madam Ogbo and
how she was eventually buried
by him and the gang members
in his compound where they
have kept her awaiting for the
payment of N10million ransom.
He said that Onah claimed that
a week later the madam died
and they decided to bury her in
a shallow grave inside his
compound which he had turned
to a dumping ground for kidnap
victims.
Onah further revealed that he
also collected N300,000 from
the family of the victim after she
had died but unknown to her
relations that the woman had
died and was going to regain
her freedom after the payment.
He further disclosed that his
gang used to work hand in
hand with the native doctor,
who normally prepare charm for
the gang and that they
compensate him with a ram
and N30,000 or N50,000
respectively depending on the
ransom obtained from the
victim’s relations.
Onah, however, regretted his
action and advised people “to
stay out of crime and
criminality as one’s sin is
bound to find him out one
day.”
One of the suspects identified
as Uche Ugwu also regretted
his action and disclosed that he
has not made much since he
joined the illicit business which
he described as “a dirty game.”
He however narrated how he
abandoned his cloth selling
business at Abuja and heed to
Paschals call to joi his kidnap
gang, advising the youth to try
as much as possible to shun
crime and criminality.
The suspect, who admitted
having carried out two kidnap
operations with Paschal using
their cut to size double- barrel
gun, one revolver pistol and a
locally made pistol, revealed
that they normally keep their
victims at Paschal’s house.
“Normally when we want to go
on operation, we use to snatch
vehicles and move with it to
where we want to operate,”
Ugwu said while advising those
indulging in criminal activities
to desist as “they will be
caught one day.”
Chinwendu Adonu, also a
suspect, disclosed that it was
greed that lured him into
becoming a kidnapper,
explaining that he was cloth
seller in Benue state before he
joined the gang.
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