Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor
Operatives of the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested the presiding pastor of Alter of Solution Church, Izuoma community in Adam, headquarters of Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor the gruesome murder of three members of his church and an unborn baby.
Addressing newsmen at the Police headquarters in Port Harcourt on Friday, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Cyril Okoro gave the names of the victims as Ada Concila Ezeawa, Christabel Joseph and Uluoma Onweagba, all females.
Okoro, who stated that the pastor killed the trio and the unborn child in order to conceal a pregnancy he was responsible for, added that Okoroafor had confessed to murdering the victims.
Read the press release below:
PRESS BRIEFING BY DCP CYRIL OKORO, THE DEPUTY OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION. ON THE MURDER OF THE FOLLOWING PERSONS.
23RD FEB, 2018
1- ADA CONCILA EZEAWA ‘F’
2- CHRISTABEL JOSEPH ‘F’
3- ULUOMA ONWEAGBA ‘F’
SUSPECT- PASTOR CHIDIBERE OKOROAFOR
OF ALTER OF SOLUTION CHURCH
IZUOMA, AFAM OYIGBO LGA, RIVERS STATE.
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS:
I welcome you again barely two days after showcasing the arrest of the killers of Heaven Ogbogbo Ihuigwe, the PDP Chieftain from Ogbogoro who was murdered in cold blood and his body dumped in a cassava farm at Rumuekini.
Today I have invited you to share with you yet another achievement by the Command where a Pastor in a most bizarre manner gruesomely murdered three of his own flocks, including an unborn child.
The unfortunate incident started unfolding when on 11th December 2017 at about 1100hrs the whereabouts of Ada Concila Ezeawa ‘F’, Christabel Joseph ‘F’ and Uluoma Onweagbo ‘F’ became unknown to their close ones resulting in the lodgment of a formal complaint of their disappearance at the Afam Divisional Headquarters.
After Preliminary Investigation by the Police coupled with diligent search by members of the Community, the decomposing corpse of Uluoma Onweagba ‘f’ and baby Christabel Joseph ‘f’ 9 months old were discovered in a bush located along Afam-Igberu road on 13/12/17.
Their corpses were immediately evacuated and deposited at the Mortuary pending further Investigation. On 18/12/17, six days after the recovery of the corpse of Uluoma and the baby, the decomposing corpse of the real Mother, one Ada Concila Ezeawa was recovered in an uncompleted building at Izuoma Community in Oyigbo LGA. The corpse which had decomposed rapidly was evacuated and deposited at a Mortuary pending further Investigation by the Police.
Case was subsequently transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) for discreet Investigation and Report.
Investigation commenced in earnest at the State CID with the constitution of a Team of seasoned Investigators headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police State CID, Port Harcourt. The above named Pastor who was said to be having an amorous relationship with one of the deceased, Uluoma Onweagba ‘f’ aged 25yrs was invited, interviewed and interrogated pertaining the Murder of the aforementioned deceased persons. He was subsequently detained as his explanations were not convincing, particularly with the information at the disposal of the Investigators that the deceased persons had on 11th day of December, 2017 informed close neighbours that they were going visit the pastor over a pregnancy issue involving the deceased Uluoma Onweagba.
