Nigerian Farmer Be-Heads 15year Old boy Only for N20,000

An Ogwashi-Uku high court in Delta State has sentenced a farmer, Mr. Chukwutem Eke to death by hanging having been found guilty of be-heading a 15-year old boy for ritual purpose. He was said to have been contracted by a pastor of a certain white garment church to commit the act for ritual purpose.



Sentencing the farmer to death, Justice Theresa Diai stated that "having found Chukwutem Eke guilty of the murder of Chukwudi Ossai, I hereby sentence you to death that you be hung by the neck until you be dead. May God have mercy on your soul".



Prosecution led by Mr. O.F. Enenmo had told the court that the convict, Mr Chukwutem Eke, a native of Ogume in Ndokwa West local government area of the State attacked the deceased and his sister Ossai Onuwa with a cutlass while they were weeding their father's farm at Olor-Ogwashi within Ogwashi-Uku judicial division, on 30th of Nov.2008.



It added that while the sister succeeded in escaping the boy was overpowered and beheaded.



The convict had in a confessional statement admitted to have committed the offence,saying that he was contracted by a pastor of a certain white garment church with a promise of N20,000 and also took police detectives to where the severed head of the boy was recovered but during trial made a U-turn by denying the confessional statement.



The trial judge in her judgment said the prosecution successfully established the ingredients of murder against Chukwutem Eke and sentenced him to death by hanging.