There was confusion recently in Umuajani village, Umudioka in
Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State when one of its sons,
60-year-old Charles Maduekwe, who was declared missing for about three
weeks, was discovered to have been killed by his own son and only child,
Emeka, and buried in a shallow pit.
The accused son, a self-acclaimed pastor, who operates a chapel in
his father's house when apprehended by his kinsmen confessed that he
committed the abomination, saying that he did it because his late father
was in the habit of placing curses on him.
Before the crime was exposed, the young man was plying his trade in a
prayer house and respected as a pastor in the area but all these
changed as the allegation of his killing his own father came to the
open.
The abomination was discovered when for over two weeks the kinsmen of
the late Maduekwe could not see him at events in the village and
inquired from his son, who told them that he travelled.
One of the kinsmen said:
"When we asked him again, he said he travelled but when you looked at
him ,you would know very well that he was lying. His mouth was shaking
and he actually betrayed his innocence. We moved to his father's house
and there we saw some fresh sand covered with leaves and we asked him
what he did there, he said he dug pit toilet there but his father said
he should close it and he did so.
"People became suspicious and we decided to unearth the pit and at a
level confusion came in and many said there was nothing there but one of
us said no we should continue that he perceived some odour and they
continued and in a short time the foot of the man was seen and the boy
wanted to run but the youths stopped him and pounced on him.
"He confessed that he killed his father and put him into the pit, he
also said that the pit took him four days to dig and that he killed him
because he cursed him." The decomposing body of the late Maduekwe was
later exhumed and reburied after the people performed some traditional
rituals and cleansed the land.
However, Emeka was rescued from the irate youths of the community who wanted to lynch him and handed over to the police.
One of those who spoke to Oriental News on condition of anonymity said:
"I interviewed the boy myself with my phone, I asked him; why did you
kill your dad, what did he do that you killed him? He said his father
used to curse him. I asked him, how long it took him to dig the pit and
he said it took him four days."On his personal bitter experience with
Emeka some months back, he said:
"I lost my car in Lagos, my car broke down and I parked it in one
filling station, it was a tyre problem. I went to the house to collect
money and buy tyre but by the time I returned to the place I did not see
my car again. The security people I paid said they did not know who
took my car away. I called the village and informed them of what
happened to me and some people advised my family to go to the young man
(Emeka) that he is a seer that he would tell them what happened.
"Surprisingly, when I called again they told me that the boy said I was
the one that sold my car. They invited him to my house and he said that
as he was talking to them then, I was in a club enjoying with women. I
got annoyed and after finishing with reports and documentations with the
police, I came back home from Lagos.
"I told them that I wanted to go and see the pastor that said I sold my
car, but luckily after two days I returned, he came to my house and my
wife gave me sign that, that is the pastor. He came into my sitting room
and immediately lay flat on the floor begging me to forgive him, that
he was the pastor that gave the message, but that on returning to his
house after the message, the spirit he worked with started flogging him
and asked him to go back and plead for mercy, as his message was false,
and that was why he came to plead for forgiveness
"But already he had caused a lot of problems in my family. He told my
wife many things, including that I was not her real husband, that my
wife should go and look for her real husband. Because of the kind of
person I am I said go, you said those things in the presence of many
people who are not here now that you are pleading for forgiveness. I
said go if God forgives you fine, if not you are responsible for what
you have said, I have forgiven you for the falsehood against me and I
left it at that. I am surprised that people are saying he sees vision;
in my case he was a false prophet and what is happening now has
confirmed my stand that he is not a real pastor.
"This same boy when he was in school at St. Marys Ifitedunu, he was
reported to have done so many things including magic. In a case he was
said to have through magic caused disappearance of his classmate's penis
and after he was beaten and threatened he made the penis return to its
position. There are also stories linking him to homosexuality, and all
these are not attributes of a true pastor." A classmate of Emeka at St
Marys Ifitedunu who also pleaded anonymity confirmed a story of the
missing penis, noting that the young man caused a lot of havoc in their
school that brought punishment to them then.
In the two rooms which he used for his business, all manner of native
doctor items, rosary, Virgin Mary picture, various colours of candles,
people's pictures and names were found, he said.
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