Two widows whose husband was allegedly killed and buried in Obagie N’ Evbousa group, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, have appealed to Governor Monday Okpebholo to intervene and guarantee justice.
DAILY POST stories 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 have been killed and buried alive on November 4, 2024.
The widows known as on Governor Okpebholo to intervene in the matter and make sure the prosecution of these allegedly accountable for the killing.
The girls, who have 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 dying of their husband, the youngsters, who have been each in Kindergarten 3, had stopped going to high school.
According to her, her husband was a bricklayer who went to the Obagie group together 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 have been attacked by armed males, killed and buried alive. The incident occurred when he was getting ready to bury his father-in-law. The one that known as us later helped us to hunt the help of a policeman, who went with us to the placement of the assault to make arrests,” she mentioned.
She accused thugs allegedly loyal to 1 Uyi Igiebor of being accountable 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 have 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 have been working to safe the discharge of the suspect allegedly linked to the killing.
She mentioned the suspect had provided the household N500,000 as compensation for the dying of their husband and for the maintenance of the youngsters, however that they rejected the supply.
Joy disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, via 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 may 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 acquainted with the incident.
Akhere mentioned Uyi Igiebor had been arrested, including that the killing was related to a management tussle over who ought to turn into the youth chairman of the group.
He mentioned N2 million was agreed upon as compensation for the household and for the maintenance of the youngsters.
According to him, the youngsters have 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, nonetheless, knowledgeable a few month in the past that one other individual had made a confessional assertion indicating that he knew one thing in regards to the incident.
