A 70-year-old native doctor identified as Chukwujekwu Onuorah, has been reportedly arrested in Anambra State in connection with the abduction and beheading of a member of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Okechukwu Okoye.
Okoye, the lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 2 in the Anambra State House of Assembly and his campaign director, Cyril Chiegboka, were abducted in Aguata in May.
Six days after the kidnap, the lawmaker’s head was dumped at Chisco park in Amichi, a community in Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state and his body was also found in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
An Onitsha-based human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law revealed on Wednesday that the native doctor was arrested in Unubi community, Nnewi-South Local Government Area of Anambra State by the operatives of the State Security Service (SSS).
Onuorah was technologically trailed after he was found to have used the beheaded lawmaker’s (Okoye’s) sim-card to make criminal calls.
“His (Onuorah) arrest was in connection with the abduction, disappearance, beheading and decapitation of Okechukwu Okoye,” the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the rights group, Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, was quoted as saying.
Giving further details of the arrest, Umeagbalasi said, “He (Onuorah) made a magical escape after several gunshots were fired at him and he escaped by jumping into a ditch.
“After recovering several incriminating items including guns and bullets and his portrait, the operatives trapped him by leaving behind one of his cell phones.
“Between late night of 30th May and early hours of 31st May 2022, the cell phone was tracked to a private hospital in Awka forcing the operatives of the DSS to storm the clinic where he was arrested alive in a bandage while trying to board a tricycle.”
With Premium Times report
