A 34-year-old widow, Mrs Ogodo Egede was allegedly raped to
death by 40-year-old Alex Nwabu man in Egwudunagu village, Amachi community in
Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
According to The Trent, the bruised corpse of the widow who was
an artisan which took care of her children from her vocation, was discovered
after the incident.
Reports from a family source said following threat to expose
Nwabu by the 13-year-old daughter of the deceased, when he refused to desist
from his wicked act, he forcefully ejected the girl from the house.
While recounting, the source said: “The girl ran to her grandparents in the night because Nwabu threatened
to kill her. She came to greet her mother in the morning only to see that she
was dead and was covered with a wrapper. The girl went and informed the
grandfather that her mother is dead. She had reported Nwabu’s action to her
grandfather.”
It was learnt that the youths of the area then mobilised a
search party for the suspect on hearing his alleged action and later found him
in his father’s compound.
Nwabu when apprehended in his father’s compound by the
mobilised search party put together by angry youths after they heard of the
offence alleged against him said: “Mrs.
Ogodo was owing me N1,500 and when I visited her for the payment she refused. I
actually asked her for sex and she also refused. I later used force on her and
I did not know she will die because I didn’t want to kill her. But she
struggled with me which annoyed me and I beat her up, I had sex with her for
several hours.”
Chief Ogbonna Ogayi, the father of the deceased narrated that his granddaughter had ran to him in the night to report that the suspect had stormed their house while harassing the deceased with a cutlass.
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