Man kills two daughters, dumps corpses in stream

A father, was yesterday, remanded at the Koton-Karfe Prisons for killing two of his daughters and dumping their corpses into the stream.

The accused, Samuel Anyaogu, 29, was remanded by a Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

The accused had the children with his mistress, Grace Edwin.

It was Edwin, who reported the matter at the ‘A’ Division Police Headquarters, Lokoja, Kogi State.                  

Edwin told the court that on December, 25, 2015, Anyaogu suffocated her nine-month-old baby, Chinonso to death.

According to Edwin, Anyaogu carried out the crime by blocking the baby’s nostrils and mouth under the guise that he was playing with her. The child was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, but doctors on duty said the baby was dead.

Edwin also told the court that on December, 26, 2015, the accused dumped the corpse of the dead child in a sack and threw it into the stream near NITEL office in Lokoja.

She said that the accused again on January 1, 2016, hit their two-year-old daughter, Miracle Edwin, with a heavy object. The child collapsed and later died. Miracle’s corpse like that of her sister, was flung into the same stream and exact location

Anyaogu, after disposing of Miracle’s corps, allegedly threatened to kill Edwin if she ever dared to tell anyone how the two children died.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr. Levi Animoku, said: “This court declines to admit the accused to bail. Consequently, he shall be remanded in prisons.”

Edwin said that did not have courage to report the matter until her family members forced her to reveal the truth and later compelled her to report the matter to the police.

Counsel to the accused, Mr. O.S. Atokolo, applied for Anyaogu’s bail, citing Section 36(5) of the Constitution and 341(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code. But the application was opposed by the prosecutor, Sergeant. Tuesday Ganagana, who said investigation into the matter, was still on.

Ganagana said: “We object to the bail of the accused as the offence of culpable homicide is not bailable.”

The case was adjourned to October 18, 20i6, for mention.