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Over the past year, more than 30 suspected Ritu@lk have been found in the IMO River in the Oriendu Autonomous Community in the northern local government area of Umiya Island, Abia State! victim of llings.
HRH Eze Philip Ajomiwe, the traditional ruler of the community, revealed this to reporters at his palace after discovering the body of another woman.
Eze Ajomiwe said: “Like the recent corpses, the corpses are either naked and have no private parts or bags. Two decomposition objects are also seen next to the NNPC pipeline.
“The victims are mainly young girls. Ritualists from the IMO usually come at night and throw the victim’s bodies into the IMO river and then in the morning we wake up to meet them.”
The monarch said the situation was out of control and created fear around and around the community. He added that no arrests have been made.
He said the community’s vigilant organization’s efforts to arrest suspects have also failed because the organization is not as capable as the suspects.
“We therefore call on the state government to pass the necessary logistics and the capacity of guard groups that enable it to match the suspects,” he said.
He said his complaints to security personnel were not successful, noting that the latest was a February 7 letter to the state legislator.
“We even reported to the DSS that they came here and had meetings with us. We need government intervention to arrest the people behind this atrocities.”
