MEN of the Abia State Police Command have arrested a 20-year-old man identified as Emmanuel Effiong who beheaded a woman in Aba on the instructions of a mad woman who advised him to throw a human head into a river or he would go mad too.
In a bizarre development, Mr Effiong confessed to the crime while in the custody of the police following his arrest in connection with a threat to kidnap and kill one Ikechukwu Udogu. Apparently, the search for Mr Effiong started when the police got information that an unknown person, through a text message threatened to kill Mr Udogu if he failed to pay him a N15m ransom.
Police operatives attached to the Central Police Station, Aba, swung into action and arrested the suspect with the mobile phone number used in sending the threat message. Abia State police commissioner Adeleye Oyabade, said that upon his arrest, the suspect also confessed that he was behind the headless woman found on September 29, 2016 at the Aba main motor park.
He said three knives and a phone were recovered from the suspect, adding that investigation was in progress to unravel the mystery behind the dastardly act. Mr Effiong, who said he hails from Ikot Edet in Akwa Ibom State, accepted that he demanded the ransom from Mr Udogu for refusing to pay him his salary since September 2009.
Mr Effiong added: “I gave a mad woman money one day in Aba and she told me to look for a skull or human head and throw inside a river or I will go mad. One morning, when I saw a lifeless body in front of the park, I decided to cut off the dead woman’s head for the exercise and I threw the head into the Aba River to remain a normal person.
“I served Mr Udogu for many years as his gateman but he stopped paying my salary since September 2009. So, I decided to send him the threat message to get my money from him.”
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