A 200-level student of the University of Port Harcourt,
Ifeanyi Dike, has been arrested for allegedly abducting and killing an
eight-year-old girl, Victory Chikamso, for ritual purposes.
Dike was arrested by the operatives of the Rivers State
Police Command attached to Okporo Police Station for defiling, killing and
removing some vital parts of the victim after kidnapping her on Friday.
One of the fingers of the deceased, her tongue, eyes, one
of her breasts and vagina were cut off by the suspected ritualist.
Dike was caught by a local vigilante while trying to
dispose of the mutilated body of the young Chikamso.
It was gathered that Dike and the victim lived both on
Messiah Street, Eliozu in Port Harcourt.
Speaking with newsmen at the State Police Command on
Saturday, the father of the slain girl, Ernest Nmezuwuba, said he was filled
with grief after seeing the mutilated body of his daughter.
He expressed shock that Dike could contemplate killing
his daughter.
“My name is Ernest Nmezuwuba, I am from Ochiogwa in
Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. The man who killed my daughter is
like my brother, someone very close to me, I can call him my cousin. He is a
200 level student of the University of Port Harcourt here and he resides at
Eliozu,” the father of the slain girl said.
Narrating how his daughter got missing and eventually
killed, Nmezuwuba recalled that Chikamso had requested bread for breakfast,
which the father bought for her before he left for work on Friday (the day she
was abducted).
Nmezuwuba said when he returned home around 3pm and
learnt that his daughter was missing, he immediately began a search.
He added that after the search became fruitless, he
decided to report the matter to the police.
“I moved immediately with my wife to where our daughter
usually went, but we could not find her.
Then I ran to the police and they
advised me to call back after 24 hours.
“This Ifeanyi (suspect) we are talking about is a
habitual criminal. He committed a crime in a bank and the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad caught him. Then the in-law went and bailed him.
“So, around 1.30am, the security men ran to me and said
that they had seen my daughter and that I should come and see the man that
kidnapped my daughter. I was in my shorts and I rushed to the place with the
security agents.
“I was told that the person that killed my daughter was
caught while carrying a load around 1.10am. The load was in a sack. The
policemen said when they confronted him, he said he wanted to take it to the
dustbin,” he added.
Nmezuwuba explained that he could not control himself
when he saw the body of his daughter with her finger, private part, and eyes
removed.
He added, “When I got there, I asked: where is my
daughter? They showed me a sack. As I opened it, I saw my daughter; I peeped
and watched very well, the two eyes were off, the tongue was gone, one of the
breasts was off, one of the fingers, the smaller one, was off. I watched at the
centre here, he had carved it (vagina) out.
“This boy decided to use my child for ritual. As I turned
back and saw him, he (Dike) was looking at the ground. Immediately I saw him, I
shouted, Ifeanyi, you killed by daughter. But he said it was not only him.”
The father thanked the police and the local vigilante for
fishing out the person behind the kidnap and murder of his daughter.
“Honestly, if the police are working like this, people
will not complain. The vigilante men did well,” Nmezuwuba said.
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