Two brothers, said to be twins, have allegedly killed a commercial motorcycle rider, popularly called okada, Mr. Nwaulunwa Ahamefula in Obegwe Awarra, a boundary community located between Imo and Rivers states.
The twin brothers, identified as Davi Ulunwa-Ama, aka Toe, and Victor Ulunwa-Ama, allegedly killed Ahamefula, who operated his okada business between Ubummiri in Rivers State and Ikwerede Awarra in Imo State.
An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, alleged that the twin brothers, who conspired with three other persons, ambushed Ahamefula along a vast tract of forest closer to their farmland, snatched his motorcycle, killed and buried him at the scene.
The twins and their other gang members waylaid Nwaulunwa along that deserted area, took his motorcycle, killed and quickly buried him to cover up the crime. Nobody can say whether it’s a case of armed robbery or cultism because these are said to belong to a cult group
“The twins and their other gang members waylaid Nwaulunwa along that deserted area, took his motorcycle, killed and quickly buried him to cover up the crime. Nobody can say whether it was a case of armed robbery or cultism because the men are said to belong to a cult group. But his corpse was later found where they buried him and exhumed by the villagers,” he said.
The twin brothers and their gang later escaped to Obosima Ohaji, where Davi was seen using the motorcycle they snatched from their victim.
Security agents trailed the suspects to the community and arrested Davi, but his twin brother, Victor and the three other members of their gang, escaped.
Davi, a native of Obor, a suburb in Awarra, it was learnt, had confessed to the security agents during interrogation that he and the others, now at large, committed the offence.
The father of the murdered commercial motorcycle rider, Mr. Igwe Ahamefula, said that the deceased was his only son, just like he was also the only child of his own parents.
He said his son, who was always pursuing a legitimate means of making a living by engaging in commercial motorcycle business, did nothing to his suspected killers to deserve such a gruesome death.
He denied a rumour that he was killed by the suspects because he refused to join their cult group.
With tears rolling down his cheeks, the elder Ahamefula said, “Nwaulunwa had no problem with anybody in this town; just like I’m always going my own way, he was always diligently and gently pursuing his business. Ask anybody in this town about me, you will hear what they will tell you. They will tell you the better side of me and my family, my attitude, behaviour and character. I’m not boasting, I’m respected by both the young and old in the community. They know me as a simple and gentle, easy going person that goes about his normal business at all times.
“Nwaulunwa, my son, is not a cultist and when you investigate, you will find out that what I’m saying about him is the truth. My village here, Obegwe, forbids our sons from joining cult groups. So, I don’t know why he was killed. Well, I will find out the rationale behind the killing of my son.”
While the distraught father of the deceased explained the circumstances surrounding the killing of his son, his wife, Mrs. Christiana Ahamefula, wailed and rolled on the ground, shouting her dead son’s name.
She refused to be consoled by sympathisers, who besieged the family’s home to condole with them.
An elder in the village, who simply identified himself as Mr. Chika, said that the killing of the young man was a shock to the entire community, adding that it would take the people a long time to forget it.
He stressed that the Obegwe people would have nothing to do with cultism because they feared the wrath of their deity called Onyeukwu-Agbara, which had forbidden anyone of them from the membership of any of such group.
Chika, however, vowed, “We will unravel the situation,” adding that the villagers would continue to make strenuous efforts to apprehend the runaway killers and bring them to book.
One of the villagers, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that the community had sent out “spies” to help in apprehending the four other suspects on the run.
Plans by angry youths in the community to raze the houses of the suspects were aborted by the village elders, who intervened and prevailed on them not to take the laws in their hands, since the security agencies had taken over the
matter.
A youth leader, who did not want to be identified, vowed that the suspected killers of the commercial
motorcycle rider would not go scot-free.