In this interview with GODFREY GEORGE, an indigene of Enugu State, Tochuckwu Okonkwo, laments the unprovoked killing of his parents, Mr and Mrs Sunday Okonkwo, by suspected kidnappers who swooped on them on their farm
, an indigene of Enugu State, Tochuckwu Okonkwo, laments the unprovoked killing of his parents, Mr and Mrs Sunday Okonkwo, by suspected kidnappers who swooped on them on their farmMy name is Tochuckwu Okonkwo. I am in my 30s. I am a native of Ukpata community in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. I am a son to the couple whose bodies were found after being kidnapped.They went to the farm as usual and never came back. They had been farming for many years.
Because of how close they were, they did everything together. But they went to the farm on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, to harvest their cassava and never returned.I don’t live in the community. It was my other siblings that called me to tell me about it. I was very disturbed. We first organised a search party. The vigilantes and other security operatives searched and searched for them till it was dark but we didn’t find any trace of them. We only saw their baskets and work tools.
Of course, they mutilated their bodies. Anybody that tells me that they didn’t cut their bodies is lying. They butchered them. I have the pictures. I can send it for the whole world to see. My parents’ remains were wrapped in a wrapper and dumped in a bush. They didn’t even have the decency to drop the body back at the farm. It took men of the Eastern Security Network to go into the forests and find the bodies for us.
These herdsmen are calculated. They go through Benue and enter Enugu and go on their killing spree. How can someone go to the farm to look for something to make ends meet and you go there and snuff life out of them? It doesn’t make any sense. They made me and my siblings orphans just like that. It is surprising and shocking. I still cannot believe it. They didn’t let them enjoy the fruits of their labour. It is not like we are rich people. We are just managing.
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