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The Abia State’s command of the Nigeria
Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested two men, Chibuike Anibuife
and Jonathan Nwogu, allegedly caught with a dead baby girl in a sack.
Parading the suspects, the state’s
Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Andy Dateer, said they were arrested by NSCDC
men on patrol at Ariaria Junction, Osisioma near Aba .
He explained that the suspects were
intially intercepted by some residents who wanted to lynch them after
the discovery of the corpse of the little girl, who was said to be about
three years old.
The commandant said the NSCDC whisked the suspects away to prevent them from being lynched by the mob.
He said, “The people were attracted to
the suspects following a sharp argument between them and another man.
The man, however, escaped when he sensed that the residents had become
suspicious of them.
“The mob was infuriated by the strange
content of the sack and demanded explanations from the men, but their
failure to provide satisfactory answer made the mob descend on them.
“They will be handed over to the police
for proper investigation. The NSCDC men only rescued the suspects from
the angry mob so that the truth of their mission could be unravelled.”
It was however, learnt from a
NSCDC source that the suspects insisted that they were contacted by the
father of the deceased child to help him bury the corpse.
According to the source, who pleaded anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the press
on the incident, the suspects later took NSCDC operatives to a hospital
in Aba where the corpse was allegedly given to them to bury.
The source said a nurse at the hospital admitted that the girl died while receiving treatment.
It was learnt that the request by the
security agents to see the doctor in charge was turned down and the
NSCDC operatives were said to tactfully withdraw from the hospital
without arresting the nurse or the doctor for fear of being attacked.
Anibuife, however, denied any
involvement in the death of the baby, saying he never knew the other
suspect, but had only intervened when the crowd wanted to lynch him.
But Nwogu said a man had approached him and begged him to help him bury his deceased child in a site where he was working.
He said the man paid him N2,000 and later drove him to the hospital where they took the corpse for burial.
He denied being a ritual killer or kidnapper, adding that he only accepted to bury the corpse because he was looking for money.
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