The police officers from Iheagwa Division, Imo State, have arrested an Imo prison escapee identified as Justice Anokam, for allegedly stabbing a pregnant woman to death with a dagger at Umuejechi Nekede autonomous community in Owerri West Local Government.
The unidentified victim was a tenant in the area but an indigene of Ohaji/Egbema LGA of Imo.
A resident, Iyke Opara, said the pregnant woman came out from the popular Ama-Ato junction before she was accosted by the suspect who had been terrorizing the community since he escaped from the April 2021 prison break in Imo.
The suspect, who claimed he was on drugs when queried in a trending video, was said to have become enraged and descended on the woman with the dagger after he asked her to give him money to eat and she shunned him.
According to the source, She told him to mind his business and that infuriated him. He removed a dagger he hid in his trousers, and stabbed her in the stomach.
The source said the woman lost a lot of blood and was pronounced dead on getting to the hospital.
He further said the suspect fled immediately but youths in the area pursued and apprehended him after several attempts to stab them.
Anokam, said to be in his 30s, was earlier arrested by Nekede vigilantes before being handed over to the detectives from the Ihiagwa Police Division amid heavy protest by the community youths who had concluded plans to lynch him before police intervention.
The police spokesman, Micheal Abattam, when contacted said he’s waiting for the situation report from the division.
A resident, Iyke Opara, said the pregnant woman came out from the popular Ama-Ato junction before she was accosted by the suspect who had been terrorizing the community since he escaped from the April 2021 prison break in Imo.
The suspect, who claimed he was on drugs when queried in a trending video, was said to have become enraged and descended on the woman with the dagger after he asked her to give him money to eat and she shunned him.
According to the source, She told him to mind his business and that infuriated him. He removed a dagger he hid in his trousers, and stabbed her in the stomach.
The source said the woman lost a lot of blood and was pronounced dead on getting to the hospital.
He further said the suspect fled immediately but youths in the area pursued and apprehended him after several attempts to stab them.
Anokam, said to be in his 30s, was earlier arrested by Nekede vigilantes before being handed over to the detectives from the Ihiagwa Police Division amid heavy protest by the community youths who had concluded plans to lynch him before police intervention.
The police spokesman, Micheal Abattam, when contacted said he’s waiting for the situation report from the division.
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Say no to drugs. Drugs is devils incarnate. He should be wasted. He is not fit to live among men
ReplyDeleteExactly, He is a nuisance, in fact a virus, We dont need people like this among humans
DeletePrison escape sice last year and the authorities didn't see the need to rearrest him since then??
ReplyDeleteOh Nigeria!!
This one is beyond redemption, he should be stabbed to death also
ReplyDeleteThis fool has taken the life of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby and he blames it on drugs....wheres the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteMy father in heaven what's is going on with youth of this days?
ReplyDeleteWhat a painful way to die. He should rot in jail. Wicked druggie
ReplyDeletePut this muthafucker down.
ReplyDeleteThis is so heart wrenching 💔 😭
ReplyDeleteis he one of the escapees from the prison break? meth is a very dangerous drug that causes the users to be desperate
ReplyDeleteThis is such a bad news haba! Escapee since last year and he's still roaming the street terrorising people.
ReplyDeleteWhen your village people have vowed to kill you.
ReplyDeleteSo painful! A country without data ehn! Anybody can just do anyhow and get away with it! No files, no records nothing!
ReplyDeletethey should kee him slowly by cutting him in bits, slow and painful death is what he deserves for killing two people.😠😠😠
ReplyDeleteHe should be speedily sentenced in accordance with the law. This is an open and shut case.
ReplyDeleteI know IPOB is not fingered in this escape but this is what the myopic rebels don't see when they organize prison breaks in the name of secession. There are so many roaming the streets terrorizing communities due to the prison and jail breaks people of no economic consequence carried out in many communities to make life difficult for those who invest and other law abiding residents.