A
widowed mother of four from Egwudunagu village, Amachi community in
Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State was allegedly raped to
death
A thirty four-year- old widow and mother of four children in
Egwudunagu village, Amachi community, in Abakaliki Local Government Area
of Ebonyi State, Mrs. Ogodo Egede, has been allegedly raped to death by
one Alex Nwabu, a forty-year-old man in the area.
According to DailyTimes, Alex Nwabu who is rumoured to be having a
constant forced affair with the late widow visited her at the late hours
of the night to ask her for a sum of N1,500 which she couldn't pay due
to her impoverished status as an artisan. She was the sole breadwinner
of her family. Nwabu then decided to have sex with her in exchange for
the money which she refused. Reports have it that the suspected rapist
threatened her and then forcefully had a carnal knowledge of her.
A family source revealed the deceased 13-year old daughter
witnessed the crime and threatened to expose Nwabu which forced him to
leave her. The young girl ran to her grandparents for fear of not being
harmed by the fierce Nwabu. She narrated the story to them and the
following day, she found her mother's corpse covered in a wrapper. An
alarm was raised. The youths in the area assembled and apprehended Nwabu
at his father's compound.
Nwabu was interrogated on the crime and he owned up. He confessed saying, "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"
The deceased has been deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA 1) mortuary, while the suspect is currently cooling off in the police net at Central Police Station (CPS), Abakaliki.
Nwabu was interrogated on the crime and he owned up. He confessed saying, "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"
The deceased has been deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (FETHA 1) mortuary, while the suspect is currently cooling off in the police net at Central Police Station (CPS), Abakaliki.
Mrs. Ogodo left three girls and a cripple boy behind. Her last child is one- year-old and was still sucking.
