The Ekiti State Police Command has detained Mr. Nnaefenwa
Lucky, in connection with the beheading of his wife, Bose.
Our correspondent gathered that the
headless remains of Bose, 40, who was suspected to have been killed for ritual
purposes, were discovered in the bush by her husband who had asked her to bring
food to him.
It was gathered that the deceased,
who had four children, had prepared the food as instructed by her husband and
was on the way to the farm to give it to him when she was attacked and
decapitated by yet to be identified persons.
Residents told journalists who
visited the area that Bose’s attackers severed her head and neck, chopped off
her arms and cut some flesh from her buttocks.
This discovery obviously made some
residents of the town to believe that the deceased was murdered for rituals.
The Chairman of Urhobo community in
Aramoko-Ekiti, Chief Samuel Okorefe, told journalists that he was told that
Bose’s husband came to town to call for help after the murder.
Okorefe said the deceased’s husband
told the people that he found his wife along the bush path where she was
beheaded.
The community leader stated that he
and some other people reported the case at the police station in the town and
to the Alara of Aramoko, Oba Olu Adeyemi.
He added that the police had
deposited Bose’s remains at the Aramoko General Hospital mortuary.
The Police Public Relations Officer
in the state, Mr. Victor Babayemi, told SUNDAY
PUNCH that it was too
early to conclude that Lucky killed his wife.
The PRO said, “We are aware of the
allegation against the husband. The man is still with us but we don’t want to
jump into conclusions. He told us that he asked his wife to bring food to him
on the farm and that he later found her dead along the footpath. We can’t say
what actually happened until we are through with our investigations.”