killed his 65-year-old mother, Agnes in her home at
Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area
of Anambra State was yesterday paraded by men of
the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu.
Ekene, a cobbler, said he had to kill his mother
because she was using witchcraft to block the
progress of her surviving four children.
Narrating his story, the suspect said: "I decided to
kill her because she did not allow the spirit of God to
come into our family.
"Once she cursed anybody, that person will never
progress and she was doing it to my brothers and
sisters very often.
"I am the only one among her six children (two later
died) that knew her secrets. My elder brother, who is
45 years old is yet to get married and nobody in our
area agrees to marry any of my sisters or their
daughters to marry any of us.
"When I confronted her by calling her 'queen of the
coast', she tried to kill me, having known that I knew
her secrets and that was why I decided to kill her
first.
"I hit her on the head with a big stick at night and
she slumped and died and I carried her in a
wheelbarrow that night to the Obukwu bush in my
community where I burnt her body to ashes."
He said that after some days of the incident, some
people in the community, who did not see her, began
to suspect that something terrible had happened, but
they could not prove anything, adding that when he
could not explain the whereabouts of his mother, the
villagers banished him from the community.
Ekene said he fled to Aba, Abia State where he
continued with his business until men of SARS
arrested him.
He said that his late mother never got married,
adding that she had all her six children in her
father's house and they all answer her maiden name.
He said that having realised the enormity of his
action, he was regretting killing his mother,
although he insisted that; "When the kingdom of
God finally comes, people would realise that I did the
right thing."
Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr. Uche
Eze, who paraded the suspect said investigation into
the matter was continuing.
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