Ritualists behead a 16 year-old groundnut seller in Anambra

::Miss Nwanneka Odah a 16 year-old girl
was on Wednesday beheaded by
suspected ritual killers at Nawfia Njikoka
local government area of Anambra State.
The 16 year-old girl was said to be selling
groundnut along Nwafia in Akwa when three
young men pretended to buy groundnut from
her.
She was beheaded as soon as she bent down to
sell to one of them. The suspected ritualist, used
the machete to cut her head off.
An Okada man who was around the scene of the
killing, rushing to the girl’s rescue, the men ran
into the nearby bush.
A relation of the deceased, Mr. Friday Ogalagu
described the situation as terrible, lamenting
that he had never seen such a thing in his life.
“I was not there when it happened, but I was
told that my cousin was stopped by three men
who said they wanted to buy groundnuts. While
two of them were on the road side, the third,
who dressed like a mad man was standing
closely.”
Ogalagu said that it was when people began to
make inquiries about the parents of the girl that
he was contacted.
According to Ogalagu who claimed to have been
training the girl since childhood, the girl’s corpse
had been deposited at the Amaku General
Hospital in Awka, while the parents who live in
Ebonyi had been contacted.
Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer,
PPRO, Mr. Raphael Uzoigwe, confirmed the
incident, saying the matter had been referred to
the State Criminal Investigation Department,
CID, for investigation.
Posted by Channels Television on August 30,
2012.: