Two widows whose husband was allegedly killed and buried in Obagie N’ Evbousa neighborhood, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, have appealed to Governor Monday Okpebholo to intervene and guarantee justice.
DAILY POST studies that the widows, Mrs Joy Azuka, 28, and Mrs Favour Azuka, 34, made the enchantment once they staged a protest on the secretariat of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, on Friday, October 30, 2026.
They alleged that their husband, Mr Sunday Azuka, and two others had been killed and buried alive on November 4, 2024.
The widows referred to as on Governor Okpebholo to intervene in the matter and make sure the prosecution of these allegedly answerable for the killing.
The ladies, who had been accompanied by different relations, mentioned their husband left behind two sons, Godsent Azuka, 6, and Godspower Azuka, 7.
Speaking to journalists, Favour Azuka mentioned that for the reason that demise of their husband, the youngsters, who had been each in Kindergarten 3, had stopped going to high school.
According to her, her husband was a bricklayer who went to the Obagie neighborhood along with his colleagues to work on the day of the incident.
“I obtained a cellphone name on that day from a involved citizen that my husband and his colleagues had been attacked by armed males, killed and buried alive. The incident occurred when he was making ready to bury his father-in-law. The one who referred to as us later helped us to hunt the help of a policeman, who went with us to the situation of the assault to make arrests,” she mentioned.
She accused thugs allegedly loyal to at least one Uyi Igiebor of being answerable for the killing of her husband, including that the police officer who accompanied them to arrest the suspects was additionally shot.
Favour mentioned the policeman survived the assault with extreme accidents, including that arrests had been later made and that one of many suspects confessed to killing and burying the victims alive.
Also talking, the second widow, Mrs Joy Azuka, alleged that some individuals in authorities had been working to safe the discharge of the suspect allegedly linked to the killing.
She mentioned the suspect had supplied the household N500,000 as compensation for the demise of their husband and for the maintenance of the youngsters, however that they rejected the provide.
Joy disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, by the workplace of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, later issued an arrest warrant for Uyi Igiebor.
“One of the suspects who had confessed to partaking in the crime is at present in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Our efforts to achieve the federal government for intervention have continued to fail, as a number of visits to Mr Paul Akhere, the Special Adviser on Security to the Edo Governor, proved abortive. If we go to the Government House, they are going to say, ‘Come again later,’ they usually cannot arrest the person,” she added.
When contacted, Paul Akhere, the Special Adviser to Governor Okpebholo on Security, mentioned he was aware of the incident.
Akhere mentioned Uyi Igiebor had been arrested, including that the killing was linked to a management tussle over who ought to turn out to be the youth chairman of the neighborhood.
He mentioned N2 million was agreed upon as compensation for the household and for the maintenance of the youngsters.
According to him, the youngsters had been to obtain N1 million every, noting that he had solely been in a position to pay N800,000 out of the agreed N2 million.
Akhere, who mentioned the suspect denied involvement in the killing, added that he was, nevertheless, knowledgeable a few month in the past that one other particular person had made a confessional assertion indicating that he knew one thing in regards to the incident.
