Udo Mbakara
You might not believe this, but it's true. In a
desperate bid to become rich, a young man in Calabar, popularly known as
Udo Mbakara, has sliced off the heads of two young girls who are his
nieces
.
Mbakara, 28, told police detectives in the Cross River
State capital that he beheaded his two young nieces so that he could
sell the heads. Each of the head, he said, was to be sold for one
million naira.
The suspect lives with his mother, his younger
brother and two nieces at 65, Edim Otop in Calabar. His elder sister and
mother of his nieces is said to live in Lagos. The sister only comes
from time to time to visit.
Narrating the incident at the police
station where he is being detained pending his arraignment, Mbakara
said: 'On that fateful Saturday morning at about 9 am, Princess, aged
nine and Rachel, aged six, were all at home when I offered to cook rice
for them. But unknown to the children, I had drugged the food and did
not allow my own younger brother to eat the food.
'After
consuming the food, they fell asleep. Then I carried them to the inner
room where I started hacking off their heads. I was offered the sum of
one million naira for the head of a virgin. I was to be paid two million
naira for the two heads.'
Investigations by Daily Sun revealed
that Mbakara, who has since refused to disclose the proposed buyer of
the sliced heads, might not be a first offender. Many people believe he
has for long been in the business of selling human heads to ritualists
within the Calabar metropolis.
'It is even rumoured that he's
behind the sudden disappearances of most of the missing children in the
town, and that he has been fronting for those in the business. It was
also gathered that his elder brother is serving a jail term in the
Afokang Prison for rape,' a resident told Daily Sun. Police sources said
that in the last three months, the command has received reports of
missing children and has even gone on air to announce the particulars of
some of them.
A family source confided in this newspaper that
it was Udo Mbakara's younger brother that raised the alarm on what the
suspect was doing inside the room. According the source, who pleaded
anonymity 'due to family considerations,' the younger Udo claimed that
he heard the children screaming inside. The source continued: 'So he
went and peeped and saw his elder brother mopping blood on the floor.
His
entire body was also very bloody. At the gory sight, he rushed out and
informed neighbours that there was something going on in the house and
the girls were screaming. At that moment, some neighbours went in to see
what was going on. They then alerted men of the Airport Police Station
who responded promptly and arrested Udo Mbakara.'
The slaughtered kids were pupils of Holy Family Nursery and Primary School, 34, Otu Ansa Street in Calabar.
At
the children's school, the headmistress, Mrs. Rosa Samuel Edo,
described them as very brilliant, saying it was a pity that the school
has lost them. According to her, it was as if the unlucky children had
known that something would go wrong, noting that they both developed
fever on Thursday and Friday. Princess' class teacher, who would not
disclose his name, was crying profusely when Daily Sun sought to speak
with him. He said he was close to the girl who he described as 'very
brilliant.'
Mbakara, who is presently being interrogated at the
homicide department of the state police Command, Diamond Hill in
Calabar, would soon be charged to court.
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