NSCDC Arrests Men Caught With Corpse Of Three-Year-Old
Two men, Chibuike Anibuife and Jonathan Nwogu, have been arrested by the Abia State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) with a dead baby girl in a sack.
The suspects who escaped lynching by a mob after the discovery of the girl said to be about 3-year-old by some residents who had stopped them on suspicion of the content of the bag were paraded by the NSCDC.
The state’s Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Andy Dateer, said they were arrested by NSCDC men on patrol at Ariaria Junction, Osisioma near Aba and they 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.”
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Meanwhile, according to Punch's gathering from a NSCDC source, 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, said the suspects later took NSCDC operatives to a hospital in Aba where the corpse was allegedly given to them to bury and that a nurse at the hospital admitted that the girl died while receiving treatment.
But 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.
One of the suspects, Anibuife, however, denied being involved in the death of the baby as he said he never knew the other suspect, but had only intervened when the crowd wanted to lynch him.
The other suspect, Nwogu, on the other hand said a man who had approached him and begged him to help him bury his deceased child in a site where he was working, paid him N2,000 and later drove him to the hospital, from where they took the corpse for burial.
He, however, denied being a ritual killer or kidnapper, while adding that he only accepted to bury the corpse because he was looking for money.
Source: Legit.ng
