A
28-year-old man, Uwem Akpanebe, who killed his 75 years old aunty, Josephine
George, yesterday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said he was told by prayer warriors
that she was behind his travails.
The
suspect, detained at Akwa Ibom State Police headquarters, Uyo, told Vanguard
that he decided to kill his aunty as the prayer houses he went to for solutions
to his problems told him the person behind his woes was a close relative, who
did not only spiritually block his chances of realising his aspirations, but
was also plotting his death for money ritual.
The
native of Ikot Ineme in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State
added that since he was living with Josephine, he thought she was the one
plotting to use him for money rituals and, therefore, had to go for her life
first.
He
said: “My action was caused by the revelations given to me by the prayer houses
I have been attending. I was told in almost all the prayer houses that someone
close to me was the cause of all the ordeals I was passing through and that the
person was even plotting to use me for money rituals. “So I hid somewhere with
a machete, waited for her and when she was returning home, I cut her with the
machete till she died.”
Speaking
on behalf of Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Murtala Mani, the
state Police Public Relations Officer, Delia Nwawe, reiterated the commitment
of the police in the state to smoke out all criminal elements from their
hideouts for the state to remain peaceful and safe. She expressed surprise that
the young man could murder the woman he was living with because of
unsubstantiated revelations by prayer houses that someone was after his life.
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