A herbalist from Unubi, Nnewi South of Anambra State, Chief Chukwujekwu Onuorah, alias “Egbe-Ejiejeogu” has been arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS for culpability in the abduction, disappearance, beheading and decapitation of Okechukwu Okoye; the lawmaker representing Aguata 2 constituency in the state assembly.
Okoye, an indigene of Isuofia in Aguata Local Government Area was abducted on 15th May 2022 and his severed head was found on May 22nd.
Onuorah’s arrest followed an intelligence and technology powered tracking of his location.
He is the blood brother of the revered Queen and Founder of the Famous Egedege Cultural Dance, Queen Theresa Onuorah.
Onuorah was technologically trailed after he was found to have used the beheaded lawmaker’s sim card to make criminal calls.
According to a civil society organization, Intersociety, the herbalist after exhausting the sim-card ‘credit’, completed the calls with his own cell phone.
According to Intersociety, the slayers of the beheaded lawmaker were earlier traced to Unubi where ransom running into millions of naira was physically delivered.
“The slayers collected the ransom and still went ahead to slay and decapitate the lawmaker. The cell phone of the slain lawmaker was put in monitoring devices during which it was found to have been used by EGBE-EJIEJEOGU to make several criminal calls days after he was beheaded. It was at this juncture that one of the ‘soft targets’ was arrested in Igboukwu leading to third party identification and location of the arrested kingpin.
“Between early hours of 28th (last Friday) and 29th (last Saturday) May 2022, the house of the arrested kingpin was raided after he was tracked to be at home. He made a magical escape after several gunshots were fired at him and he escaped by jumping into a ditch. After recovering several incriminating items including guns and bullets and his portrait, the operatives trapped him by leaving behind one of his cell phones. Between the late night of 30th May and the early hours of 31st May 2022, the cell phone was tracked to a private hospital in Awka forcing the operatives of the DSS to storm the clinic where he was arrested alive in a bandage while trying to board a tricycle (KEKE). The two ‘soft targets’ earlier arrested were freed same yesterday being 31st May 2022”
