By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA – 22 years after, the Supreme Court, on Friday, freed Mr. Alban Ajaegbu, who was one of the accused persons in the celebrated ‘Otokoto’ ritual murder of 11-year-old Ikechukuwu Okoronkwo.
Little Okonkwo who was a groundnut seller, was on September 19, 1996, lured into a hotel called Otokoko in Owerri, Imo State and gruesomely beheaded.
Investigations had revealed that the victim became unconscious at the hotel after he drank a bottle of Coca-Cola that was spiked with drug, before he was killed.
The crime was discovered when 32-year-old Innocent Ekeanyanwu left the hotel to deliver Okonkwo’s head in a polythene bag to a client.
An okada rider who was conveying Ekenyanwu to his destination discovered the fresh human head and alerted the police.
Among those arrested over the ritual murder included the owner of the hotel, one Vincent Duru, who…
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