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Father of three s!blings stuff£d in fr£ezer still recalls cries of his children
By Kayode Sanni-Arewa
Forty-seven-year-old nurse, Ejezie Udochukwu, opens up to IKENNA OBIANERI about the heavy pain of losing his three children under mysterious and shocking circumstances in Nnewichi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State
Recently, reports went viral about the killing of your three children. How did it happen?
I am from Umuokanam Umucheke, Umueze-Uga in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. I am 47 years old and a nurse by profession. I reside in Edo State, while my wife and children live in Nnewi, Anambra State, but I visit them regularly.
On February 1, 2025, my wife went for an official assignment and left our children at home, as usual, because it was not a school day. She gave them instructions as she always did. However, when she returned at about 5 pm, she noticed that the doors were wide open, unlike before.
Why was the door open?
She was expecting her children to greet and hug her, but she didn’t hear any voices or see any of them. She went to the kitchen to check if the food she had left for them had been eaten, but the food was still there. She began wondering where the children had gone.
My first daughter is an altar server, and every Saturday, she goes for rehearsals. My second daughter attends catechism for her first holy communion, and the youngest one, they can’t keep him at home, so he is usually taken along. But on that day, they didn’t go anywhere, and nobody knew where they were.
What happened thereafter?
At first, my wife didn’t suspect anything, as she came back from her assignment tired and needed to eat.
While she was eating, I called and asked if she had seen the children. She said ‘no’. I asked her how she could comfortably eat without knowing where our children were. She asked me to allow her to eat first, and I agreed. After eating, she went to the church that the children attended. I even told her that if she found them, she should discipline them, not knowing that my children had already been killed and stuffed inside the freezer.
How old were the children?
My first daughter, Chikaima, was nine years old; Chimdirim David, my son, was five; and Chimziterem Dominica, my second daughter, was eight years old. They were the only ones at home when the incident occurred.
How long have you lived in the compound?
We live in a two-room apartment behind the main building. There are two separate one-room apartments occupied by medical students, and we have been living in this compound for five years. We are the only family living there, along with two medical students.
What time did your wife start searching for the children before discovering their bodies in the freezer?
She started calling people whom she thought my children might have visited, though they were not the visiting type. Every person she called said they had not visited them.
The Supreme Court has placed on hold its verdict on an appeal by the All Progressives Congress, APC, filed to nullify the outcome of the local government elections held in Rivers State on October 5, 2024.
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, okayed the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
While the APC, through its lawyer, Mr. J. B. Daudu, SAN, urged the Supreme Court to set aside the November 21, 2024, judgement of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which declined to invalidate the election, Mr. Yusuf Ali, SAN, who announced appearance for Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Chief Chris Uche, SAN, who is counsel to the
Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, urged the court to dismiss the appeal.
It will be recalled that the appellate court vacated the judgement that barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from releasing the voter register to the RSIEC for the conduct of LG polls.
A special panel of the appellate court had faulted the Federal High Court in Abuja for barring security agencies from providing security during the elections.
The Justice Onyekachi Otisi-led panel had, in a unanimous decision, held that the lower court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain a suit against the Rivers State LG elections.
According to the appellate court, section 28 of the Electoral Act does not cover elections conducted by states but only federal elections, governorship, and area council elections in the Federal Capital Territory.
Justice Peter Lifu of the high court had, on the strength of a suit that was filed by the APC, stopped the conduct of the Rivers State LG election.
The trial court held that the RSIEC erred by fixing a date for the conduct of polls in the 23 local government areas without strict compliance with relevant laws guiding such elections.
Besides, he held that the update and revision of the voters register to be used for the election ought to have been concluded before any valid date could be fixed for the polls.
Justice Lifu ordered INEC not to make the certified voters register available to RSIEC, pending when the relevant laws were complied with.
He further barred RSIEC from accepting any voters register from INEC or using the same for the purpose of the LG polls.
Vanguard
A family clash which occurred Saturday morning at the funeral rite of 78-year-old Emmanuel Agbozo, popularly known as “Nil oo Nii”, in Nkurakan, Yilo Krobo Municipality, Eastern Region, made it impossible for the deceased to be buried.
As the funeral took a dramatic turn, it took the police’s intervention and escort for the deceased’s body, which was lying in state, to be returned to a private mortuary at Huhunya, a nearby community.
According to Ghana Web, an attempt to prevent one of the deceased’s children from participating in the funeral rites led to the clash.
Family members accused the individual of abandoning his now-deceased father during his illness and failed to visit him.
Also, the late Agbozo, before his demise, had explicitly instructed the family not to allow the son to attend his funeral.
The violent confrontation stemmed as the family members attempted to enforce this directive by the deceased, leading to a clash with the son who brought some young men to fight the family.
This led to property destruction, and injuries before Police reinforcements were called in to restore order.
The Police, in order to ensure peace and prevent further escalation, ordered the body to be returned to the mortuary, and the funeral was suspended indefinitely.
Suspects involved in the clash are currently assisting the police with investigations. (Nigerian Tribune)
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji has quashed the appeal filed by the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, challenging the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Martin Amaewhule.
Justice Uwani Abba-Aji while dismissing the appeal awarded a cost of two million naira against the governor payable to the Rivers State House of Assembly as the first respondent and Martin Amaewhule as the second respondent.
The dismissal of the appeal by Fubara was hinged on the withdrawal of the suit by his counsel, Yusuf Ali.
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