INEC Official, Three Other Female Dead Bodies Found In Room In Anambra

By Vincent Ujumadu

Awka—DETAILS emerged, yesterday, on the
discovery of four female dead bodies in a room in Ifite area of Awka,
the Anambra State capital. The Anambra State police command discovered
the dead bodies in a room occupied by a couple on Olisa Onyeka Crescent
near the Commissioners’ quarters in Awka GRA.

Two of the dead
bodies were said to be holding Holy Bible at the time they were
discovered and they might have gone to pray with the tenant of the room
when they met their death.

One of the victims and a tenant in the
building, Mrs. Chinwe Obi, a Grade Level 14 officer with the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, hailed from Uruagu,
Nnewi. Until her death, she was the electoral officer for Onitsha South
Local Government Area.

It was also gathered, yesterday, that the
husband of Mrs. Obi, who returned to Nigeria from Cotonou, Benin
Republic, died about a week ago in the same room and the body is still
in the mortuary.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hosea
Karma said that following volunteered information, he went with his men
to the scene and discovered the bodies after neighbours tried Mrs. Obi’s
telephone line severally without any response. According to Karma, the
decomposing bodies of the women had been taken to the hospital for
autopsy.

The CP said: “A report came to us that a woman was being
called on phone without anybody picking it for two days and we had to
mobilize to her residence. On getting there, we had to force the window
open and saw the bodies lying on the floor. “The bodies found in that
room were without bruises which was an indication that there was no
attack from anyone.”

Karma said that the other three women, whose
identities had not been known, were being suspected to be her church
members who came to sympathize with her over the death of her husband.

The
police commissioner said, however, that the police discovered a
generating set and a remnant pot of soup suspected to be carbon monoxide
or food poison respectively. The commissioner disclosed that the soup
as well as their bodies had been taken to mortuary for examination.