MAN BEHEADS WOMAN, CLAIMS MEN FROM DECEASED'S VILLAGE RAPED HIS WIFE

32-year-old Chinedu Nweke (pictured above) has
been arrested for beheading 45-year-old
Philomina Nwega in Ebonyi State. Nweke claimed
he committed the heinous crime to avenge the
serial rape of his wife by men in the murdered
woman's village.
According to Sunday Sun, the horrible incident
happened on September 6th in Umuzeoka village
in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State. Recounting
the bizarre tale, Nweke, a farmer, said men from
the village had raped his wife severally, alleging
that the repeated vicious act led to a miscarriage.
I am a farmer. Villagers raped my wife
severally. And it made my wife to have
mis-carriage anytime she was pregnant. I never
complained about this problem to the police. It
was on September 6, in the evening that I saw a
woman coming from the farm. I waylaid her and I
used my cutlass to kill her. I cut off her head
which I dumped alongside her lifeless body into
the Ogbor stream. I cut her head into pieces and
threw them into the stream.
Obviously this guy is sick in the head. How are
you going to kill an innocent women over an
alleged rape of another woman? Continue...
It was at Umezeoka that the people raped my
wife and that was where I killed the woman. Each
time my wife was raped I bought drugs for her
but I didn't report the incident to anybody, not
even to the village head or the traditional ruler.
When a report was made to the police about the
death of the woman, a search was conducted by
a combined team of the police and the local
vigilance group in Achiagu, Ezza North LGA, where
the suspect, Nweke, was arrested with a blood-
stained machete and clothes on September 7th.
Nweke confessed to the police that he killed the
woman and dumped her corpse in the stream
along with the head.
Dikko said the headless body was later recovered
and taken to the mortuary of the Ebonyi State
University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. The
Assistant Commissioner of Police, State
Criminal Investigation Department, Mrs Justina
Ogbodo also told Sunday Sun that detectives had
recovered the machete allegedly used by Nweke
to kill the woman.
ACP Ogbodo said the command was still finding it
difficult to recover the severed head, which Nweke
claimed to have thrown into the stream.
While the police continue with the interrogation of
the suspect, the husband of the deceased, Mr.
Bartholomew Nwega said his primary headache
is seeing the severed head of his late wife
recovered so that she could be given honourable
burial. In a broken voice that belied his grief, he
said: I am pleading with the police to help me
recover the head of my dead wife.
Source: The Sun