According to her, around 12noon of January 12, one Idenyi Festus, male, of No. 11 Awolowo street Abakaliki, reported at the station that around 4:00 a.m. of the same day, his wife, a nursing mother named Idenyi Ebere Ukamaka, left her 11 days old baby in their residence for early morning prayer at St. Theresa Catholic Church Abakaliki.
“The woman did not return and he searched for his wife on that day to no avail but around 9:00 a.m. of January 13, he found her dead body in a gutter behind Enugu North Mass Transit. He said his wife after being killed was also burnt, adding that it was through her head that didn’t burn that he was able to recognize his wife.”
The Guardian reported that the late Ukamaka left her home at No. 11 Awolowo street, around Waterworks road to St Theresa’s Catholic cathedral last week where she said she wanted to have some spiritual meditation in the chapel only for her body to be found mutilated and burnt in a drainage.
A source said family members after discovering the lifeless body immediately went to their village in Izzi local government area of the state to report the ugly incidence to the elders of the family.