• HOW RITUAL KILLERS KILLED 24 YEAR OLD ABIA
  STATE GIRL.
  Pa Kalu Elem Okore and his wife, Angelina, have
  remained inconsolable since their 24-year-old
  daughter, Miss Anita Oluchi Okore, was killed in Port
  Harcourt, Rivers State by three men believed to be
  ritualists.The unfortunate lady met her untimely and
  gruesome end when she travelled from Abakaliki,
  Ebonyi State to the Garden City to visit her elder
  sister, Dr Mrs Ugochi Igwe, in April 2015.
  Based on information pieced together by her father,
  Pa Kalu, Sunday Sun gathered that after the young
  lady alighted from the bus somewhere along the
  East-West road, Eleme, Port Harcourt, she called her
  father and informed him that she had arrived the city
  and was about to take a taxi to her sister’s place.
  Oluchi flagged down a taxi, told the driver her
  destination and boarded. Three other men were also
  in the taxi.
  They had just driven some distance when she
  noticed that something was wrong. The strange
  attitude of the three occupants of the taxi made her
  uncomfortable and she sensed danger. Her fear
  became real when the taxi suddenly veered off her
  route and headed to direction she did not know.
  Then it dawned on her that there was trouble. She
  quickly put a call across to her father, informing him
  of the situation. As Pa Kalu told Sunday Sun, the
  frightened young lady said: “Daddy, I don’t know
  where the taxi I entered is taking me to.”
  She pleaded with the people to let her go and even
  passed her phone to them to listen to her father’s
  pleas to them to spare her, promising to pay ransom.
  He even invoked the name of the Most High in the
  hope that abductors had a modicum of reverence for
  God, but all his pleas fell on deaf ears. The abductors
  were said to have told Pa Kalu that giving them
  money could not solve the problem and brusquely
  returned the phone to Oluchi, who continued to plead
  for her life as her father listened on the open line.
  After a short while the phone went dead, and that
  was the last time Pa Okore heard the voice of his
  lovely daughter. Hours rolled into days and then
  weeks, yet no call came from her or the abductors.
  The family organized a search and also reported the
  matter to the police, the State Security Service (SSS)
  and the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), in
  Port Harcourt.
  What ensued from that day was pure mental torture
  for the Okore family as they daily searched
  everywhere. As the weeks passed and the abductors
  made no contact with the family, it began to dawn on
  Pa Okore that Oluchi’s disappearance was not a case
  of kidnapping for ransom. That suspicion became real
  when her mutilated body was eventually discovered
  where the ritual killers dumped it. The grief-stricken
  father lamented: “It is only God who knows what my
  daughter saw in their hands before they killed her in
  cold blood and harvested her vital organs for rituals,”
  Pa Okore lamented.
  Before the discovery of the victims remains, the
  combined team of the SSS and DMI working on the
  belief that the victim could probably had been
  abducted by ritualists given that they did not contact
  the family, obtained and reviewed the central call log
  of MTN GSM network. Through the review, the
  investigating team found out the location of Oluchi’s
  last call. The effort paid off as three of the ritualists
  were arrested in a hotel, where they were enjoying
  the N1.5 million their clients paid for the body parts
  they procured for them. The culprits then led security
  operatives to where they dumped what remained of
  Oluchi’s body after cutting out vital organs.
  Oluchi was buried on Thursday, May 7th, 2015, in
  Eziobasi, Amodu Ututu, in Arochukwu LGA of Abia
  State, after a funeral service held at the Presbyterian
  Church of Nigeria, Umule Parish, Aba.
  At the burial of the murdered young lady, Pa Okore
  wailed uncontrollably at her graveside. Oluchi was
  the daughter that always put smiles on his face each
  time she was around.
  Expectedly, the painful loss of their daughter made
  them look very frail, emaciated and deeply troubled.
  In their remarks, they both wished that those who
  murdered Oluchi had asked for money. That even if
  they could not afford the ransom, they could have
  borrowed at any cost to save their treasured jewel,
  who Okore described as a unique daughter.
  He recalled how he had laboured for 24 years and
  Oluchi from nursery, primary, secondary school and
  then to Abia State University, where the beautiful lady
  bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking and
  Finance, before going for the national youth service
  in 2013 and served as an accountant with Kenol
  Investments, a private firm. She later served as the
  sales manager of the company.
  After completing the youth service, Oluchi took up
  appointment at Unity FM based in Abakaliki, Ebonyi
  State, where she worked as the accountant until she
  fell into the hands of ritual killers during the ill-fated
  trip to Port Harcourt.
  In his tribute to Oluchi, Pa Okore amid sobs said of
  his daughter: “You showed genuine love to those that
  came your way, you spent all you had to make us
  happy. You were unique by all standards. You labored
  and had no opportunity to reap the fruits of your
  labour. The Almighty God knows what to do with
  those who murdered you and their sponsors. No one
  of them will be left unpunished.”
  Oluchi’s mother in her own tribute said: “You were
  always in a hurry to put things in order whenever
  you were with us at home. You made every corner of
  our house take a new look; you cared for your
  parents and siblings alike. Only God knows why he
  allowed you to be murdered at a tender age. Go in
  peace, Oluchi my daughter.”