Man who beheads uncle’s wife, uses body part for soup, remanded in Makurdi

Tayo AFOLABI

Jeremiah Ode, A 45 year-old-man from Igwe Ochekpo in Oju Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state has been remanded at the Federal Correctional Centre, Makurdi, for the alleged murder and beheading of Mrs. Priscilla Adoga, 65 years old.

The suspect, a mental case, was alleged to have committed the heinous crime while working on the farm of his victim where he murdered her.

He was said to have been caught by the locals who went searching for the women after she was declared missing, while he was eating the body part of the deceased which he had already cooked.

Arraigning the suspect before a Chief Magistrate Court, the Prosecuting Police Officer, Inspector Omaye Ujata in his First Information Report, FIR, told the court that the incident which happened last Friday was reported to the police by one Silas Igiri of Oju LGA.

He said the report indicated that “the accused attacked the victim, his uncle’s wife, with a machete in a farm, where she was working at the time, and killed her after which he beheaded her.”

The Prosecutor informed the court that “the accused in his statement confessed to committing the crime.”

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Regina Alagh did not take any plea for want of jurisdiction, before ordering the remand of the accused.