By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

A domestic help, Onyebuchi Eze, serving an elderly woman in Umunze town, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, has confessed to harvesting the genitals and nipples of the 72-year-old for money ritual, blaming it on a native doctor.

Ezeh was said to have carried out the act in connivance with some friends on the instruction of a native doctor, who had promised to make them rich if they brought the required items.

The incident happened last week in Umunze, with the elderly woman being rescued by neighbours, who later took her to the hospital.

Miss Chidinma Ikeanyionwu, Media Assistant to Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, disclosed that the victim is recuperating at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, where the commissioner visited her.

Giving further details, she said: “The incident was discovered after the survivor raised alarm on Thursday. One of her workers alongside two other men stampeded her in her house and cut off her genital organs including nipple, ear, fingers, among others.

“The culprit by name Onyebuchi Ezeh, who was later caught, confessed that they were sent by a native doctor to get the needed organs of the 72-year-old in order to become billionaires.

“The culprit hails from Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, and usually helps the victim in cutting palm trees. He was said to have explained that they embarked on the act because they wanted to get rich according to the assurances of the native doctor.”

Miss Ikeanyionwu quoted Hon Obinabo as expressing sadness over the development, while assuring her that other persons involved in the crime would also be apprehended and charged to court.

The culprit is said to be currently held at the State Criminal Investigative Department of the Anambra State Police Command Awka and will soon be arraigned before the Children and Gender Based Violence Magistrate Court in the Anambra State capital.