By Sunny A. David
Following the killing of her 29-year-old man, Chibueze Nwakor, by men suspected to be Police officers, the widow presently 5 months pregnant, Mrs. Dorcas Nwakor has cried out for justice.
Our Reporter gathered that the deceased father of three children who hailed from Owerre Ezukala in the Orumba South Local Government Area of the Anambra State, Nigeria, reportedly met his untimely demise on October 13, 2023.
Chibueze Nwakor was allegedly shot by Police officers attached with the Area Command in Onitsha.The unfortunate incident occurred along Sokoto Road, close to the Main Market in Onitsha, while Chibueze was on his way to the market, said the report.
Circumstances leading to the killing were unknown as he was said to have died in the hospital where he was later rushed to by some neighbours and passers-by.
The widow told newsmen that, “On the evening of Friday, October 13, I got a call to come to the hospital that my husband was shot by the Police in Onitsha and when I arrived at the hospital at 8 pm, they confirmed to me that he was dead.
The killing of my husband has affected us so much and I am right now in a very critical condition with my pregnancy. I don’t know what to do, there is no help for me from anywhere. He was killed for no justifiable reasons and without any provocation. He was not a troublemaker.
“He was the breadwinner of the family and his sudden death has cost us so much at the moment. Look at my children, look at my condition. I am five months pregnant. Where will I run to now? Who will help me? My medication and my ante-natal care have been suspended because there is no money, my children are no longer going to school.
There is no food to eat, even my children have been hungry, all because of what the Police have done to us. This is unjustifiable, we need people, kind-spirited individuals to come to our rescue at the moment.”Our landlord called two days ago to inform us that our rent will soon be due. How do I cope, my husband was making plans to open a business for me before he was killed”, narrated the widow sobbing.
“I want justice for my husband. His killers should tell us the reason they killed him. I am helpless now. I don’t have any father, my husband was everything that I have. The Police IG should intervene, President Bola Tinubu should intervene, the Anambra State government should intervene, and hearted individuals should intervene”, she further stated.
Contacted, the Anambra State Police command’s spokesman, Mr. Tochukwu Ikenga, a Deputy Superintendent of Police DSP said, “we will let the public know
