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A 39-year-old
man, Chamberlin Ojoko who allegedly gave his pregnant girlfriend, 25-year-old
Chinonye Ella, a local abortion concoction has been arrested by the Imo
State Police Command. The
concoction caused fatal adverse reaction that resulted in her death, on July
20, 2015. Ojoko was alleged to have calmly gone home to borrow a shovel
from his brother, Pastor Sopuruchi and buried the corpse of the deceased
girlfriend in a shallow grave, which he dug at the back of an uncompleted
building owned by one Dr Maduakolam Ukaegbu, a kinsman.
According to the
Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, the chain of events that
ultimately led to the untimely death of Chinonye began the day she boarded the
same bus with Ojoko in December 2014, at Achingali, in Obowo Local Government
Area, Imo State. They chatted along the way as the trip progressed and
then exchanged phone numbers. While Chinonye lived in Umuahia, Ojoko on his
part resided in Port Harcourt. Over the intervening period, Ojoko regularly
invited her to Owerri, where they would lodge in a hotel and have fun. After
each visit, he would give her N3,000 to N4,000 to cover her transportation
costs. This continued until Chinonye informed him that she had become pregnant.
Apparently, the
news that she had conceived was not well received by Ojoko, who set about
sourcing for a local concoction, probably after convincing her on the need to
abort the innocent unborn child.
Lakanu explained
further that on July 20, 2015, the suspect took Chinonye to an uncompleted
building at Ezeakam Eziudo, his community, where he gave her the local abortion
concoction. Within hours, her condition became critical as intense pain wracked
her body, particularly around the stomach.
At the
headquarters of the Imo State Police Command, where he is being held in custody
while investigations continue, Ojoko recounted to Sunday Sun, what happened that fateful night he gave his
girlfriend the abortion concoction. He
said: “On July 20, 2015, I took my girlfriend to an uncompleted building
around 6:30pm. My girlfriend took the herbal medicine, but later she started
writhing in pain. Then she died. I ran to my house and took a shovel; I carried
her body to the side of the building. I dug the ground and buried her in a
shallow grave.”
Believing in his
heart that he had covered his deed like Cain, who killed his brother Abel, Ojoko
returned to Port Harcourt, to the warm embrace of his unsuspecting and
pregnant wife. But unknown to him, a certain little girl had seen him carry out
the dead body of Chinonye, and dump it in the grave he dug. The little girl
later told the owner of the building about the horrific crime she saw. After
the shock of the revelation wore off, Dr. Ukaegbu ran to the Ezinihitte police
station to report what he was told by the girl.
The police
station contacted the Head of the Homicide Unit at the Imo State headquarters
in Owerri, Supol Innocent Obi, who led his men, Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko
(brother of the suspect) and Dr. Ukaegbu, to Port Harcourt, where Chamberlain
Ojoko was arrested. Giving further insight to the incident, brother of
the suspect, Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko, told Sunday
Sun:
“I saw my brother Chamberlin Ojoko
and his girlfriend on that day around 3.00pm. They didn’t enter our house in
the compound; instead they walked toward Eziudo road. About 9:00pm, I saw that
my elder brother, Chamberlin, returned to the house without the girl. “He
requested for shovel and took it to the bush. He didn’t return till 11:00pm. I
asked him where he was coming from at that late hour; he said he went to the
toilet. I asked him, why he came to the village without informing us. He
replied that he was working at the building site. I saw bruises and wounds on
his hand. When information got to us that my elder brother murdered his girlfriend,
I had to take the policemen to Port-Harcourt to arrest him.”
On August 15,
2015, the body of the deceased girlfriend was exhumed and autopsy conducted.
The policemen discovered how he used the deceased girlfriend’s cloth to choke
her. There were stains of the victim’s blood at the uncompleted building. The
police also learnt that the suspect threw away the handset of the deceased
girlfriend.
As it stands now,
Lakanu said the Command is concerned to locate the relations of the deceased
given that her handset which could have offered assistance in this regard was
thrown away by the suspect.
“We want members of the public to assist us and provide
information that would help us find the relations of the deceased. We learnt
from the suspect that the deceased resided in Umuahia, Abia State, before her
demise,” Lakanu pleaded.
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