The woman was alleged to be sleeping on
the same bed with her husband, Mgbebu till midnight when she left to ease
herself outside but reportedly went to farm at Igbudu Community to harvest some
food crops and was killed by her assailant.
In a neighbouring Imo State, one Madam
Rose Chibuike was also said to have narrowly escaped being beheaded by an
attacker along a lonely road at Umezeala, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of
the state by a machete-wielding man.
newsmen investigations revealed that
Madam Chibuike, who runs a pepper-soup joint in Umuezeala, is a native of
Ikperejere, Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of the state.
However, narrating how his pregnant
wife was murdered, the deceased’s husband, Mr. Nwangwu said: “My wife got up
around 12 midnight and left the house. She said she was going to ease herself.
As she did not come back after some time, I became panicky and went looking for
her but to no avail. For the fact that she was nearing delivery, I increased my
search for my wife.
“I took a short cut and it paid off.
The footpath shortened my search as I suddenly met the lifeless corpse of my
wife, lying face down on the ground with the pregnancy. ’’When I saw the
lifeless body of my wife I raised an alarm which attracted other villagers to
the scene; who then alerted the police before we made a random search for her
killer.
In the process, I learnt that the
villagers traced spills of blood to a nearby cassava farm where it was suspected
that the woman met her waterloo.”
However, when the deceased body which
was lying face down was later turned, a deep wound was discovered around her
abdomen as the body was still oozing out blood.’’ Contacted, Ebonyi State Police
Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent Sylvester Igbo, confirmed the
story, adding that investigation had commenced to ascertain the circumstances
behind the murder.
Also narrating her ordeal to
journalists from her hospital bed, Madam Chibuike who espcaped from her
assailant said: “There is every reason to believe that my attacker wanted to
behead me on that lonely road.”
According to the lucky woman, she
instinctively raised her left hand in self defence when she realised that her
life was in danger, adding that her attacker ended up cutting off her
hand.
She said that she was returning from
her landlord’s house when she was ambushed on the lonely road by the man who she
identified as her customer and a native of Umunakanu (names withheld).
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