The tranquillity of the Umuchoko community in Ngor Okpala
council Area of Imo State was punctured at the weekend following the alleged
gruesome murder of Miss Calista Nzubechukwu Uzoigwe by a pastor and his
daughter over a phone battery.
The cleric popularly known
as ‘Esom Jehovah’ and the presiding pastor of Assemblies of God Church,
Umuohiagu III, Umuanyamele village had engaged with the deceased in a brawl
before his first daughter known as “The Pee” stabbed her at the back and she
died on the spot.
Callista, 23 who was from Okpanku community in Aninri area
of Enugu State had allegedly accused pastor’s daughter of stealing her
battery and charger.
Confirming the incident, a co-tenant to the pastor and
medical doctor in charge of Graceland Hospital, Umuchoko Umuohiagu said that Miss Callista died immediately she was stabbed but was rushed to Holy
Rosary Hospital, Emekuku in Owerri North LGA of the state where she was
confirmed dead and deposited in the hospital morgue.
The medical doctor who disclosed that the deceased was
undergoing training in his clinic stated that he was not at the scene when the
tragic incident occurred, however recalled that he met the deceased in a pool
of her blood about 2:30 pm that fateful day on return to the hospital
following a distress call from other nurses who witnessed it all.
According to an eyewitness who preferred anonymity the
trouble had ensued between the deceased and pastor’s family when the former
confronted her assailant over a missing phone battery and charger.
She said that a boy in the compound had given the deceased
a phone battery and charger to assist him recharge it but that Pastor Esom
Jehovah’s first daughter allegedly stole the items which were later found in
her custody five day later when search for the items had exhausted.
The pastor, it was gathered had reacted angrily to the
allegation against her daughter and had confronted the deceased which resulted
in a brawl and the man of God mercilessly beat up deceased before his daughter
went and picked a kitchen knife and stuck it deep into Callista’s back while
her father held the nurse down.
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