Suspected Ritualists Kill Lady, Flee With Body Part In Akwa Ibom

The students’ community of Ekpri Nsukara, one of the adjoining areas hosting the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) main campus in the state capital has been thrown into mourning following the gruesome murder of a young lady by suspected ritualists.

Her decapitated body without the upper abdomen was discovered tucked in a “Ghana -Must -Go” bag and dumped at the entrance to the Boys’ School around the Anua area of the town by her assailants.

A shocked student of UNIUYO, Comrade Emmanuel Ekong, who spoke to LEADERSHIP, could not ascertain whether the deceased was a student of the institution because of her dismembered remains.

“We woke up this early Monday morning to discover the trunk of a young lady inside a ‘Ghana – Must – Go’ bag, chopped off from the waist and the other parts of the body from the waist to the head taken away by her killers. So, we can’t really ascertain whether she’s our fellow students, maybe later,” Ekong, said.

Another student, Nseobong Idiong, said “Early this morning, a female body parts found slaughtered and dumped in a ‘Ghana – Must – Go’ bag at the entrance to the Boys School, Anua, Nwaniba Road Uyo, just before the Ekpri Nsukara junction. It’s pathetic that people could resort to this level of barbarism against fellow human, no matter the offense she might have committed.”

While calling on security agencies to go the extra mile to unravel those he described as “the merchants of deaths,” Comrade Ifiok Bassey, a youth activist, urged Governor Umo to intervene by impressing it on security agencies to stop the ugly trends, recalling that last week, a young lady was beheaded and her headless body dumped in a farmland by the Udo Udoma Banking Layout, Uyo.

“A similar sad incident happened about a week ago, where a young lady was also murdered and her head severed from the rest of the body around the Udo Udoma Banking Layout. The Police, as usual came and took the headless body, and up till now, nothing is heard concerning the incident.

“And now this has happened again in similar fashion, the Police detachments have come to this scene like three times, and there’s every likelihood nothing serious would be done to fish out and bring the perpetrators to book.

“Akwa Ibom State has been touted as one of the cleanest and security – conscious state in the last couple of years, yet these kinds of ugly developments keep denting the state’s image which have rub – off negatively on the destination state of tourism and Foreign Direct Investments (FIDs) hub the governor is trying to sustain,” he stressed.

However, the police public relations officer (PPRO), SP Odiko MacDon, while responding to the complaints by concerned residents on the latest incident, vowed that the police would investigate the killings, assuring that no stone would be left unturned in apprehending and bringing the culprits to justice as the commissioner of police (CP) Olatoye Durosinmi, has zero tolerance for crimes.