Mrs. ifebuchechikwu Onyishi, whose husband allegedly killed their son for money rituals in Enugu has finally opened up on how the sad incident happened.
Recall that the husband who is now in Police custody, 36- year old Chidi Onyishi was said to have drown his seven years old son, Richard, for money rituals last month.
Narrating how she started looking for her child, Mrs. Onyishi, who said they are from Nsukka in Enugu State said, “This thing happened on Wednesday, October 20. It was that day that I began to search for Chukwudalu.
“I searched for him both through the churches and traditional means; there was no place I did not go in search of my son and all the places I went to they assured me that Chukwudalu will return. I started doing midnight prayers and even while walking on the road, I continued to pray for God to let my son return to me. The Block Rosary children in our street were also praying for his return.”
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The mother of six whose remaining five kids are aged 10, nine, five and three years old respectively with the last one being seven months old and who now live at the mercy of neighbours continued: “But on Saturday, Ogam (my husband) came back after moving around for the day and asked if I cooked food. I said yes, he said I should put food for him to eat and I did.
“He ate and after eating, he fell asleep. He was sleeping when our neighbour called Parker knocked on our door and my first daughter went to the door and said it is Parker. He told her to call her daddy for him. So, I went and woke him up that Parker came for him because the chairman was looking for him. I asked him to go and see him to know why he was looking for him, whether he had information about Chukwudalu. He said okay and left, I wanted to go with him but he refused and it was already night.
“Shortly after, I began to hear noise outside and I came out to behold the crowd and police van coming down with people everywhere. I then heard Parker saying to him (my husband) that they will deal with him that he will know that he is in the Camp. That he killed his son for money ritual and accused the camp people of killing him. It was to me as if I was in a dream when I heard that, I couldn’t hold myself, I ran inside, many thoughts ran across my head, do I kill myself or what?
“It was at that point that my first daughter and the other one and other people around began to hold me. My daughter said to me repeatedly, mummy if you die we will suffer, that no one will take care of them. So, they held me down in the room, I was speechless. I asked our street boys who came with the police if my son was alive, they said yes and I said if he is alive let them.
Asked if her husband had before now shown any suspicious behaviour like one in any occult group, the woman who has been married for 10 years said the husband has never showed any such tendencies.
“On that same day, we discovered that Chukwudalu my third child was missing and all efforts to locate his whereabouts proved abortive. We searched everywhere but we could not find him. I called my husband severally but he was not responding but he later called back in the evening and I told him that our son was missing.
“My husband said he knew nothing about his whereabouts. But I later noticed how he was behaving; I insisted in knowing the particular white garment church he was attending and he opened up and said it is Olumba Olumba Obu. I said okay, so, you followed the man you are driving to his church because he kept his Keke and is now working as a driver but when he had spare time he used his Keke.
“That old man he was arrested with is the man he is driving and the man attends Olumba Olumba Obu. The one police called pastor. But I kept insisting that my husband knew where our son was because all fingers were pointing at him as neighbours saw him last with the child,” she said.
Her suspicion became real when police came and arrested her husband. “Seeing him with the exhumed body of my son, I felt that my world has collapsed. My annoyance was that he followed us in search of him while he was the one that killed him,” she cried uncontrollably.