Man kills uncle’s wife, uses head for soup

The police have arrested a 45 year-old man, Jeremiah Ode for the alleged gruesome murder and beheading of 65 years-old wife of his uncle, Mrs. Priscilla Adoga whose head he used for pepper soup.

The suspect, a native of Igwe Ochekpo in Oju Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state with a mental case, was alleged to have committed the heinous crime while working on the farm of his victim where he murdered her.

Ode was said to have been caught by the locals who went searching for the woman after she was declared missing, while he was eating her body part which he had already cooked.

Arraigning the suspect before a Chief Magistrate Court, the Prosecuting Police Officer, Inspector Omaye Ujata in his First Information Report, FIR, told the court that the incident which happened last Friday was reported to the police by one Silas Igiri of Oju LGA.

He said the report indicated that “the accused attacked the victim, his uncle’s wife, with a machete in a farm, where she was working at the time, and killed her after which he beheaded her.”

The Prosecutor informed the court that “the accused in his statement confessed to committing the crime.”

No plea was taken for want of jurisdiction, the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Regina Alagh ordered that the accused be remanded at the Federal Correctional Centre, Makurdi; and adjourned the matter to November 11, 2022.

(Vanguard)