EMMANUEL NLEWEDUM, Port Harcourt
The Police in Rivers State says it’s operatives have arrested a native doctor and three other suspects for their involvement in a horrific case of ritual killing of a set of twin children, Chizaram Onuche and Chidinma Onuche, both 7-year-olds in Port Harcourt.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, SP Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement said the arrest followed a report transferred from the Special Area Division, prompting operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit to take swift action.
Police Spokesperson in the state, SP Grace Iringe-Koko in a statement said the arrest was made on 23rd March 2025, at approximately 9:00 am, adding that during the operation, law enforcement officers recovered key evidence, including a bottle containing the drained blood of the victims.
The PPRO in the statement alleged that one of the suspects, Mr Aniekan Sunday Uko aged 27, a native of Akwa Ibom, residing at 2nd Pipeline, Rukpokwu, usually lures victims to his location, drugs them using a drink known as Black Bullet as a sedative, and subsequently slaughters them, collecting their blood in a bottle.
The statement reads; “Luis John Uwelemele (Female, 19 years), a native of Cross River State, residing at Omuike, Aluu is the girlfriend of the first suspect, Aniekan and is linked to the crime while Kingsley Opurum (Male, 43 years), a native of Etche, Rivers State, residing at 3rd Pipeline, Eneka. He has been implicated as the native doctor complicit in the murder of the deceased children”.
The Rivers Police image maker also disclosed another suspect, Friday Silas (Male, 47 years) and a native of Plateau State, residing at 2nd Pipeline, Rukpokwu claimed that he allowed the suspects to stay at the uncompleted building where the killings took place.
According to her, Opurum confessed that he became involved in the ritual killing after visiting the native doctor and witnessing him perform similar rituals for others in exchange for wealth, adding that the native doctor instructed him to provide fresh human remains and blood for ritual purposes.
The police Spokesperson said the following exhibits were recovered from.the scene of the crime;
a kitchen knife identified as the murder weapon, a bottle filled with the victims’ blood, scooped by the suspect, an empty can of Black Bullet, used to drug the victims before the act and a spoon, used to collect the victims’ blood.
She said the victims’ bodies have been deposited at the mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The statement quoted the state Commissioner of Police, CP Olugbenga Adepoju assuring the public that justice will be served, and all perpetrators of the heinous crime prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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