- The Benue State Police Command has arraigned a 45-year-old man, Jeremiah Ode, at a Makurdi Magistrate Court for cannibalism.
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Ode, from Igwe Ochekpo in Oju Local Government Area (LGA), Benue State, is being prosecuted for the gruesome murder of Priscilla Adoga, 65.
According to Inspector Omaye Ujata, the Prosecuting Police Officer, the incident which occurred on Friday, August 19, was reported to the police by Silas Igiri of Oju LGA.
According to Igiri’s report, the accused went to the farm where his uncle’s wife, Priscilla, was working and killed her using a machete.
After chopping off Priscilla’s head, he prepared pepper soup with it right there on the spot and was eating it when he was caught.
Sources in the community told newsmen that, when Priscilla did not return from the farm at the normal time, her relatives went in search of her, only to find Jeremiah, known in the community to be mentally deranged, having a meal of the woman’s head.
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