The decomposed body of 84 year-old Madam Adiza Ogbo, wife the traditional ruler of Abba- Igogoro community, Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, who was abducted by unknown gunmen since September 14, this year, has been recovered from a shallow grave by operatives of the state police command.
Late Adiza, the mother of the former Commissioner for Chieftaincy Affairs in EnuguState, Chief Goddy Ogbo, was kidnapped, four days after some armed men invaded the palace and inflicted machete cuts on her husband, Omale before shooting at three other persons in his palace at 8pm.
The traditional ruler was said to be having a meeting with some people in his Igogoro palace when the gunmen struck. Igwe Ogbo was said to have been reportedly given three machete cuts on his head.
The aged woman was said to have died in the hands of her abductors a week after she was taken from her home at gunpoint to an unknown destination. Leader of the kidnap gang now in police net, one Paschal Onah alias Achisa who was arrested along with a native doctor and seven members of his gang, confessed that the woman died in their hands and was buried in a grave which he dug in his compound for kidnap victims.
The police said that the woman’s decomposed body was recovered from the said grave following a confessional statement by the suspects who were rounded up by men of the state police command.
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