February 13, (THEWILL) – Mrs Chigbewejim Lawyer, wife of a Rivers-based pastor, has been raped to death, few hours after she was abducted from her Abarikpo community, in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Chigbewejim was reportedly abducted by suspected members of Iceland cult group, at about 1am on Sunday, and later found dead at about 10 am in the morning in Abarikpo with multiple injuries and blood in her private part.
Her husband, an Assistant Pastor in Seventh Day Adventist, Lawyer Steward, confirmed the sad incident.
“I am the husband of the late Chigbejim Lawyer, who was murdered by some group of boys after raping her.
“I am not a cultist; I am an Assistant Pastor in charge of Evangelism in Seventh Day Adventist Church, Abarikpo. Everybody in my community knows I am not a cultist.
“She gave birth to three children, one is late. The surviving ones are aged seven, a female and the male, aged three.
“I am telling the Government that those who murdered my wife should be brought to justice. Though one Aka Sunday, a Cultist, claimed he slaughtered my wife, that my wife talked against him, that people told him my wife always talked against him. The said Sunday is a cultist that is the reason he murdered her”, Pastor Steward told newsmen, adding that officers of Ahoada Police Division in Ahoada town, led by the DPO, visited the scene on Sunday evening.
The Public Relations Officer of Igbu Akoh Clan Youth Congress, Ahoada East LGA, Ekeakita Hector Chinem, also confirmed the incident.
“We have been having series of killing in Akoh. When they kill, nobody goes after the bad boys. No security people go after the bad boys. No Political leaders goes after the issue. People are afraid. Whether you report or not what will happen will happen.
“So, people are living in fear. The killing of the woman is not cult related because she is a married woman.
“Late last year we witnessed eleven killings in that community. The eleven killings last year, a member of one of the cult groups went to their camp and collected the AK 47 of their master and ran away to their community at Abarikpo.
“Only for the cult leader to send his boys to waste eleven innocent lives and till today no Investigation, no action was taken by the Police, nothing”, he said.
Meanwhile, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign has condemned the abduction and rape to death of Mrs Lawyer.
Prince Wiro, National Coordinator of the group, called on the Police to ensure the culprits are brought to justice.
Recall that a suspected notorious Iceland cultist, James Bright, aka Borokiri, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the Police on December 15, 2022.
At the time of filing this report, the Police Command is yet to react to the incident.
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