This is a shocking story…
A middle aged man, Joseph Emeka Okoro has been arrested in Isu, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State for the murder two of his kinsmen; Peter Awoke and Sunday Agar whom he killed with a machete while they were working on their farms.
Okoro who was arrested November on 14th told the police he was pushed by some evil spirits to commit the crime.
The police spokesman in the state, Mr. Chris Anyanwu said two other victims, who sustained serious injuries from the attack, were currently lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital.
The suspect claimed that he returned from Lagos two days before he committed the murder adding that any time the spirit came upon him, he would be restless.
I know those people that I killed, but I didn’t know why I killed them or when I did it. They are good people whom I have never had any quarrel with. I think an evil spirit possessed me.
Okoro explained that the manipulations of the evil spirit was further worsened by the effects of some hard drugs injected into his body by assassins hired by his former master in Lagos to kill him before he came back to his hometown.
Whenever this spirit came upon me, it will just be like I was mad. That was worsened by the effects of the drugs I was injected with by some people hired by my former master to kill me. I have never seen such powerful drugs in my life. I was given up to 48 injections.
Okoro claimed that his former master came after him even when he escaped to a white garment church and told the church members that he was mad.
But while I was there, I asked to make a phone call and they obliged me. After the phone call, church members started wondering how a mad man was able to know the numbers to call and discuss coherently.
I sold my phone for N5,000 to be able to raise money to come back home. I have never killed before; even one of the people I killed was my in-law.
PPRO Anyanwu said it took the efforts of youths in the area and a team of policemen from Onicha Divisional Police Station to arrest the suspect, who took to his heels after committing the crime. Okoro has been charged to a magistrate court sitting in Abakaliki, which remanded him in prison custody. The court then adjourned the case to January 13, 2014.
Credit: The Sun
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