By Austin Ogwuda
Reports from our Correspondent in Anambra State, Nigeria, said Police have arrested a man for allegedly killing an innocent new born baby delivered by a teenage girl he impregnated out of wedlock.
The Town Hall Media gathered that the flirting husband had in the past impregnated the said girl but forced the girl to abort on several occasions.
But this time around, all attempts to get rid of the baby through abortion failed.Not satisfied that the girl aged 16, eventually delivered the baby, went further to heartless kill the baby and buried the baby at his backyard secretly.
Unfortunately for him, his wife who was away from home suddenly returned home when he was covering the grave and raised an alarm.
Eye witness said it was just by the grace of God that the wife is still alive today as the husband pounced on her to subsequently kill her (wife) for refusing join him to conceal the secret.
His name was given as Ifeanyi Ezenwankwo from Nanka community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State , Nigeria while the wife, Ekwutosi, a native of Agbiligba Nanka community.
Chidinmma Ikeanyionwu, the Media Aide to the Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Ify Obinabo in a press statement made available to newsmen on Thursday gave details of the gory incident
According to the statement “one Ekwutosi Ezenwankwo, a woman from Agbiligba Nanka has been rescued from his alleged ritualist husband, Ifeanyi Ezenwankwo, for refusing to aid and abet his criminal activities
“According to the woman, the husband who is also a native of Nanka is always in the habit of impregnating one 16-year-old girl and afterward, aborts the pregnancies, but he ran out of luck when the said 16-year-old became pregnant again and the pregnancy could not be aborted.
“The wife of the culprit said that trouble started when she came back home from where she went to and met her husband and the 16-year-old girl burying the newborn baby and when she raised the alarm, the husband brutally descended on her and wounded her together with her children.
“The woman noted that she had earlier observed what was going on between her husband and the young girl and had quickly warned that nothing should happen to the unborn child, a situation, she said made the husband hide the girl in his chambers.
“She also revealed that the husband also threatened to kill her, which according to her, has been a constant occurrence, citing instances where community members have rescued her from her husband anytime he embarks on the mission of silencing her”, the statement added.
Meanwhile the Media aide also disclosed that the man had been handed over to the Police and investigations are on.
The Town Hall Media efforts to find out the whereabouts of the teenage mother of the killed child were unsuccessful as at press time.
*Photo caption: the picture above courtesy Anambra State Ministry of Women & Social Welfare shows the said shallow grave the new born baby was allegedly buried and the battered wife who narrowly escaped death by whiskers