Suspected members of a dreaded cult group have abducted a mother of two Mrs. Chigbewejim Steward, and gang raped her to death in Abarikpo in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The assailants were said to have whisked away their victim on Sunday morning to a location where they raped and killed her.
Her body was reportedly found around 10am on Monday in the community with multiple injuries and blood stains in her private part.
He husband, Lawyer Steward, confirmed the ugly incident, saying it happened after a notorious cultist in the area accused his wife of always gossipping with his name.
Steward said: “I am the husband of Chigbejim Lawyer who was murdered yesterday by a group of boys. After raping her, they murdered her.”
“I am not a cultist, I am an Assistant Pastor in charge of Evangelism in Seventh Day Adventist Church Abarikpo. Everybody in my community knows I am not a cultist,” he said.
“She gave birth to three children one is late. The surviving ones are aged seven, a female and the male aged three years. I am telling the Government that those who murdered my wife should be brought to justice.
“Though one Aka Sunday, a Cultist claimed he slaughtered my wife that my wife talked against him, that people told him my wife always talked against him. The Sunday is a cultist that is the reason he murdered her,” Steward added.
Pastor Steward also said that the Ahoada Police Division in Ahoada town, Ahoada LGA led by the DPO visited the scene on Sunday evening.
In an interview with journalists, Mr Ekeakita Hector Chinem, Public Relations Officer of Igbu Akoh Clan Youth Congress, Ahoada East LGA confirmed the abduction and rape of the victim.
“So like we have been having series of killing in Akoh. When they kill nobody goes after the bad boys. No security people goes after the bad boys. No Political leaders goes after the issue. People are afraid .You report or don’t report what will happen will happen,” he said.
“So people are living in fear. The killing of the woman is not cult related because she is a married woman. Late last year we witnessed eleven killing in that community. The eleven killing last year, a member of one of the cult group went to their camp and collected the AK 47 of their master and ran away to their community at Abarikpo.
“Only for the cult leader to send his boys to lavish innocent lives which eleven persons were killed and till today no Investigation, no action was taken by the Police, nothing,”Chinem stated.
