A father has been arrested by the police in Taylor Avenue, Coal Camp, Enugu state for killing his 7-year-old son, Chimdalu Chidi for money rituals.
According to reports, the 36-year-old suspect named Chidi Onyishi was arrested after the police received solid information in an ongoing case of a missing child
The suspect had first reported to the police on 22 October that his 7 years old son was missing.
However, after the investigation was carried out, the Operatives attached to the Central Police Station of the Command arrested them for his involvement in the death of his son.
Confessing his crime, the father revealed that he murdered his son for money rituals.
The police revealed;
“Preliminary investigation reveals that he confessed to the crime and led Police Operatives to the arrest of one Pastor Okeke Eneokwor aged 95 (male), who is said to be blind and of Dental Avenue, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu; whom he fingered as an accomplice.
He also led Police Operatives and medical team to a stream in Abakpa-Nike, Enugu, where the decomposing corpse of the minor was exhumed from a shallow grave, after him and cohorts murdered and buried the child on 20/10/2021.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Abubakar Lawal, fdc, has ordered the State CID Enugu to conduct a thorough and conclusive investigation that will lead to the prosecution of everyone found culpable in the act.”
