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Dare-devil members of a dreaded cult have abducted and gang-raped to death, wife of a pastor who was also a mother of two, Mrs. Chigbewejim Steward, in Abarikpo area of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The cultists reportedly whisked her away on Sunday morning to a location where they raped her mercilessly until she died.
Her body was reportedly found at about 10am on Monday in the community with multiple injuries and blood stains in her private part.
Speaking on the incident, her husband, Pastor Lawyer Steward, said it happened after a notorious cultist in the area accused his wife of always gossiping with his name.
Steward said: “I am the husband of Chigbejim Lawyer who was murdered yesterday by a group of boys. After raping her, they murdered her.”
“I am not a cultist, I am an Assistant Pastor in charge of evangelism in Seventh Day Adventist Church, Abarikpo. Everybody in my community knows I am not a cultist.
“She gave birth to three children, one is late. My daughter is seven, while the little one, a boy is three years old.
“One boy, Sunday, a cultist claimed he slaughtered my wife that my wife talked against him. That people told him my wife always talked against him. That is the reason he murdered her. He is a cultist.”
Steward said the Ahoada Police Division in Ahoada LGA led by the Divisional Police Officer had visited the crime scene, saying, “I am calling on the government to help me find those boys that kidnapped my wife, raped and murdered her. Let the government and the police help to arrest them and make them pay for what they have done to my wife.”
The Public Relations Officer of Igbu Akoh Clan Youth Congress, Ahoada East LGA, Ekeakita Chinem, confirmed the incident, saying the community had been experiencing a series of killings in recent times, adding that usually, when they kill, nobody goes after the bad boys. No security operatives go after them.
Rivers Police spokesman, Supol Grace Iringe-Koko, has not yet spoken on the incident./SHARE THIS