24-year-old female accountant Anita Okorie with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) has been murdered in cold blood

Oluchi Anita Kalu Elem Okore (a.k.a Lulu) who
hailed from Ezi Obasi, Amodu Ututu in Arochukwu
Local Government Area of Abia State, was brutally
hacked to death along East-West Road in Port
Harcout, Rivers State, by suspected ritualists,
who also cut off her vital organs.
Her assailants, three young men, who are now
being detained in a military facility in Port
Harcourt, are said to have confessed that they
sold Oluchi’s vital parts for about N1.5 million.
Oluchi, a 2012 Banking and Finance graduate of
Abia State University, Uturu, was offered
employment by FRCN after her youth service and
was recently deployed to Unity FM, Abakaliki,
Ebonyi State.
She left her base about three weeks ago for Port
Harcourt, en route Aba, to visit her elder sister
who was said to have just put to bed. She never
returned from the journey.
Family sources said Oluchi made a brief stop-over
at Aba, where her parents are based, and
proceeded on her journey to Port Harcourt at
about 6pm that fateful day.
It was gathered that she maintained close contact
with her parents through mobile phone
conversations, intimating them of her location at
any point in time.
She was said to have informed her parents of the
heavy traffic on the road which delayed her on
the way as she was said have arrived Eleme
Junction at about 10pm.
Oluchi, according to our source, promptly called
to inform her parents that she had arrived Eleme
Junction and that she was about boarding a taxi
cab to her destination. She was also said to have
raised her in-law, requesting him to come and
fetch her at the bus stop where she would alight.
Our source said that Oluchi may have been
sandwiched by two young men who equally
boarded the same taxi after she had boarded. A
little while, Oluchi was said to have put through a
distress call to her parents, telling them though
she had reached where the cab was supposed to
drop her off, they driver turned to a different
direction and she was unaware of where they
were taking her to.
It was learnt that Oluchi’s father pleaded with his
daughter’s captors to spare her life but just name
any amount of money they want and the family
would source for it. Shortly afterwards, calls to
Oluchi’s phone line were no longer going through.
After Oluchi’s father made desperate but futile
efforts to re-establish contact with her daughter,
he reported the matter to the police which later
declared her missing. Search parties were raised
without success, prompting his father to report
the matter to the military and Department of
State Service.
Our source said the military responded with
dispatch by deploying personnel from its
Intelligence Department who stormed Port
Harcourt, was able to locate the venue where
they evil men had killed the young woman.
The military intelligence officers were said to
have subsequently traced the suspected ritual
killers to a hotel in Port Harcourt where they were
nabbed.
It was at this point that the suspects led the
army officers to where they dumped the mangled
body of Oluchi and were also said to have
confessed during interrogation that they made
N1.5 million from selling Oluchi’s vital organs.
The army officers then put a call to Oluchi’s
father to come to Port Harcourt and identify a
corpse.
A relation of the deceased said they believed that
Oluchi was tortured to death going by the extent
of bodily injuries which disfigured her to the
extent that it took only a natural mark on her
body to identify her.
Tears flowed like river in Ututu last Thursday
when the remains of their elegant, promising
daughter, cut down in her prime, was committed
to mother earth.
Her mother, in a tribute to Oluchi, wrote: “God
knows why you were murdered at a tender age.”
The military is still keeping sealed lips on the
identities of the suspected ritual killers as
investigation into the matter was continuing.
•Photo shows late Oluchi.