A herbalist based in Anambra state has been declared wanted for reportedly stealing a buried corpse and taking it to his shrine in Obosi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of the State,
According to reports the herbalist was said to have connived with the brother-in-law of the deceased to exhume the remains.. It would be recalled that a lady identified as Nkechi Ofili recently cried to a popular pastor, Evangelist Ebuka Obi of the Zion Ministry for his intervention after she saw a viral video of her sisters corpse being taken to the shrine.
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According to Mrs. Ofili, who hails from Osomala in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the State, her sister, who was married to Obosi, died on April 1, 2023. She said she was shocked to see a video of a corpse that looked like her sister being dragged to a shrine with rope. She quoted the suspects as claiming that the lady was killed by the shrine. While hinting that the sister was a widow before her death, she also said she saw the brother of her late sister’s husband among the people dragging the corpse to the shrine. According to her, after seeing the video, she made enquiries and eventually confirmed that the corpse being dragged was truly her late sister, even though the husband’s brother denied it and insisted that she was not the one.
Although unconfirmed sources said the prime suspect (the brother in-law of the deceased) has been arrested; some sources said he was still on the run, together with the herbalist.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, said he had seen the video of the alleged incident and escalated same to the authorities. “I have seen the video of the alleged incident and I have escalated it to the authorities. we are looking into it, please,” he said.
