Cultists rape pastor’s wife to death in Rivers
A mother of two identified as Mrs Chigbewejim Steward was kidnapped and ganged raped to death in Abarikpo, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State by suspected members of a dangerous cult group.
Her husband, Steward, is a lawyer and an Assistant Pastor in charge of Evangelism at Seventh Day Adventist Church Abarikpo.
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It was learnt that the attackers abducted the woman on Sunday morning to a location where they raped and killed her.
Her body was reportedly found around 10 am on Monday in the community with multiple injuries and blood stains on her private part.
Her husband, Lawyer Steward, confirmed the unpleasant incident, saying that it took place after a notorious cultist in the area accused his wife of persistently spreading rumors about him.
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,” he said.
“She gave birth to three children one is late. The surviving ones are aged seven, a female, and a male aged three years. I am appealing to the government that those who murdered my wife should be brought to justice.
“Though one Aka Sunday, a Cultist claimed he slaughtered my wife because my wife talked against him, he said people told him my wife always talked against him. This Sunday is a cultist that is the reason he murdered her,” Steward added.
Pastor Steward also said that the Ahoada Police Division in Ahoada town, Ahoada LGA led by the DPO visited the scene on Sunday evening.
Mr Ekeakita Hector Chinem, Public Relations Officer of Igbu Akoh Clan Youth Congress, Ahoada East LGA confirmed the abduction and rape of the victim in an interview with journalists.
“We have been having a series of killing in Akoh. When they kill nobody goes after the bad boys. No security people go after the bad boys. No Political leaders go after the issue. People are afraid. You report or don’t report what will happen will happen,” he said.
“People are living in fear. The killing of the woman is not cult-related because she is a married woman. Late last year we witnessed eleven killings in that community, in the eleven killings last year, a member of one of the cult groups went to their camp and collected the AK 47 of their master, and ran away to their community at Abarikpo.
“Only for the cult leader to send his boys to lavish innocent lives and eleven persons were killed, till today no investigation, no action was taken by the Police, nothing,” Chinem stated.
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