Shocking: 24 year-old female accountant allegedly murdered by ritualists in Port Harcourt

24 year-old, Miss Anita Oluchi Okore, was allegedly murdered by ritualists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Oluchi met her untimely and gruesome end when she travelled from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to the Garden City to visit her elder sister, Dr. Mrs. Ugochi Igwe.

Based on information pieced together by her father, Pa Kalu, it was gathered that after Oluchi alighted from the bus somewhere along the East-West Road, Eleme, Port Harcourt, she called her father and informed him that she had arrived the city and was about to take a taxi to her sister’s place.

Oluchi flagged down a taxi, told the driver her destination and boarded. Three other men were also in the taxi. They had just driven some distance when she noticed that something was wrong. The strange attitude of the three occupants of the taxi made her uncomfortable and she sensed danger.

Her fear became real when the taxi suddenly veered off her route and headed to direction she did not know. Then it dawned on her that there was trouble. She quickly put a call across to her father, informing him of the situation. As Pa Kalu told newsmen, the frightened young lady said: “Daddy, I don’t know where the taxi I entered is taking me to.” She pleaded with the people to let her go and even passed her phone to them to listen to her father’s pleas to them to spare her, promising to pay ransom.

He even invoked the name of the Most High in the hope that abductors had a modicum of reverence for God, but all his pleas fell on deaf ears. The abductors were said to have told Pa Kalu that giving them money could not solve the problem and brusquely returned the phone to Oluchi, who continued to plead for her life as her father listened on the open line.

After a short while the phone went dead, and that was the last time Pa Okore heard the voice of his lovely daughter. Hours rolled into days and then weeks, yet no call came from her or the abductors. The family organized a search and also reported the matter to the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), in Port Harcourt. What ensued from that day was pure mental torture for the Okore family as they daily searched everywhere.

As the weeks passed and the abductors made no contact with the family, it began to dawn on Pa Okore that Oluchi’s disappearance was not a case of kidnapping for ransom. That suspicion became real when her mutilated body was eventually discovered where the ritual killers dumped it. The grief-stricken father lamented: “It is only God who knows what my daughter saw in their hands before they killed her in cold blood and harvested her vital organs for rituals,” Pa Okore lamented.

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