The people of Ezeakam Eziudo community in Ezinihitte Mbaise
Local Government Area, Imo State, still shudder at the recollection of
the heinous act of their kinsman, 39-year-old Chamberlin Ojoko, who
allegedly gave his pregnant girlfriend, Chinonye Ella, 25, a local
abortion concoction.
The concoction caused fatal adverse
reaction that resulted in her death, on July 20, 2015. Like someone
acting out a well-scripted plan, Ojoko was alleged to have calmly gone
home to borrow a shovel from his brother, Pastor Sopuruchi and buried
the corpse of the deceased girlfriend in a shallow grave, which he dug
at the back of an uncompleted building owned by one Dr Maduakolam
Ukaegbu, a kinsman.
According to the Imo State Commissioner of
Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, the chain of events that ultimately led to the
untimely death of Chinonye began the day she boarded the same bus with
Ojoko in December 2014, at Achingali, in Obowo Local Government Area,
Imo State.
They chatted along the way as the trip progressed and
then exchanged phone numbers. While Chinonye lived in Umuahia, Ojoko on
his part resided in Port Harcourt. Over the intervening period, Ojoko
regularly invited her to Owerri, where they would lodge in a hotel and
have fun. After each visit, he would give her N3,000 to N4,000 to cover
her transportation costs. This continued until Chinonye informed him
that she had become pregnant.
Apparently, the news that she had
conceived was not well received by Ojoko, who set about sourcing for a
local concoction, probably after convincing her on the need to abort the
innocent unborn child.
Lakanu explained further that on July 20,
2015, the suspect took Chinonye to an uncompleted building at Ezeakam
Eziudo, his community, where he gave her the local abortion concoction.
Within hours, her condition became critical as intense pain wracked her
body, particularly around the stomach.
At the headquarters of the Imo
State Police Command, where he is being held in custody while
investigations continue, Ojoko recounted to Sunday Sun, what happened
that fateful night he gave his girlfriend the abortion concoction.
He
said: “On July 20, 2015, I took my girlfriend to an uncompleted
building around 6:30pm. My girlfriend took the herbal medicine, but
later she started writhing in pain. Then she died. I ran to my house and
took a shovel; I carried her body to the side of the building. I dug
the ground and buried her in a shallow grave.”
Believing in his
heart that he had covered his deed like Cain, who killed his brother
Abel, Ojoko returned to Port Harcourt, to the warm embrace of his
unsuspecting and pregnant wife. But unknown to him, a certain little
girl had seen him carry out the dead body of Chinonye, and dump it in
the grave he dug. The little girl later told the owner of the building
about the horrific crime she saw. After the shock of the revelation
wore off, Dr. Ukaegbu ran to the Ezinihitte police station to report
what he was told by the girl. The police station contacted the Head of
the Homicide Unit at the Imo State headquarters in Owerri, Supol
Innocent Obi, who led his men, Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko (brother of the
suspect) and Dr. Ukaegbu, to Port Harcourt, where Chamberlain Ojoko was
arrested.
Giving further insight to the incident, brother of the
suspect, Pastor Sopuruchi Ojoko, told Sunday Sun: “I saw my brother
Chamberlin Ojoko and his girlfriend on that day around 3.00pm. They
didn’t enter our house in the compound; instead they walked toward
Eziudo road. About 9:00pm, I saw that my elder brother, Chamberlin,
returned to the house without the girl.
“He requested for shovel
and took it to the bush. He didn’t return till 11:00pm. I asked him
where he was coming from at that late hour; he said he went to the
toilet. I asked him, why he came to the village without informing us. He
replied that he was working at the building site. I saw bruises and
wounds on his hand. When information got to us that my elder brother
murdered his girlfriend, I had to take the policemen to Port-Harcourt
to arrest him.”
On August 15, 2015, the body of the deceased
girlfriend was exhumed and autopsy conducted. The policemen discovered
how he used the deceased girlfriend’s cloth to choke her. There were
stains of the victim’s blood at the uncompleted building. The police
also learnt that the suspect threw away the handset of the deceased
girlfriend.
As it stands now, Lakanu said the Command is
concerned to locate the relations of the deceased given that her handset
which could have offered assistance in this regard was thrown away by
the suspect.
“We want members of the public to assist us and provide
information that would help us find the relations of the deceased. We
learnt from the suspect that the deceased resided in Umuahia, Abia
State, before her demise,” Lakanu pleaded.
Also, the suspect will soon be charged to court after completion of the investigation.
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