I want justice for my angel, bereaved mother cries out

   

Ebenezer Adurokiya  ran across a nursing mother, said to be a former journalist, in Effurun, bemoaning her 25-year-old daughter, Miss Radar Emuobosan Elsie Agbaje, a graduate of Microbiology from Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, who was killed in Agbor on October 10 by suspected cultists.

MISS Radar Emuobosan Elsie Agbaje left her mother’s place in Port Harcourt for Agbor via Warri in Delta State but never knew death was lurking somewhere, waiting to grip her. The 25-year-old graduate of Microbiology from the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, was at her school to collect her result, in which she obtained a Second Class Upper. She was to return to Port Harcourt in a short while, but decided to put up in her aunt’s home at Agbor, having missed the family while she was away.
Her aunt, Mrs Rachael Vwaire Okodaso, lives with her husband, a medical doctor and their three children at No. 11, Opia Lane, Owa in Agbor. Miss Agbaje had begged her in-law to allow her bosom friend, Miss Ederi Bragademo, a student of English Language, College of Education, Agbor, to live with them, having faced some accommodation problem when she gained admission. So, for two years, she was allowed to stay with Miss Agbaje in her room. Miss Bragademo’s parents, it was gathered, live at Agbarho, a suburb of Warri.
But tragedy struck on October 10 while Miss Agbaje, after collecting her certificate, decided to spend a few days with her aunt and play with the children before joining her mother in  Port  Harcourt.
On October 1, Miss Agbaje was said to have had a little misunderstanding with her friend, Miss Bragademo, over the latter’s perceived wayward outings. The former’s aunt was said to have complained that their guest usually made calls to unknown guys in the night and often returned home late at night. As gathered, the immediate cause of the friction came when the two friends went to the market and instead of focusing on her errand, Miss Bragademo went to flirt with some boys. For this, Miss Agbaje had a showdown with her friend and the case was later amicably resolved.
Aunty Okodaiso had travelled to Warri to obtain some documents from her former place of work, Ovwie Local Government  Secretariat, having been transferred to Agbor because of her family. Her husband, was on a call at the hospital where he works and so, only the two friends and three children of ages eight, five and three were to remain in the house till the following day.
According to the mother of Miss Agbaje, Mrs Rose Dolore, who got detailed narration of the incident from the three children who witnessed what transpired that night, two fierce-looking young boys gained entry into the house at about 2 a.m. They entered the room where the two ladies were and began to maim them. But at a point, they focused on her own daughter, Miss Agbaje, clubbed and butchered her to death. The screams and cry to Jesus for help were described as agonising.
According to the deceased’s mother, Ironzi, her daughter’s friend, with whom she slept, had given conflicting reports concerning the incident. She said the boys were armed robbers and they killed Miss Agbaje because she was screaming ‘Jesus! Jesus!’ and refused to stop when she was asked to.
She could not also satisfactorily give the reason why she was spared and why she was fast asleep in the same mattress soaked with the blood of her murdered friend until the children walked into the room at about 5:00 a.m to see the outcome of the screams and shouts they heard.
After the victim was stabbed in the face, laps, belly, heart and other parts of her body, she was left in the pool of her own blood beside the wardrobe dead. Thereafter, the assailants were said to have walked into the kitchen, did some cooking, sat on the dinning table and ate before taking their leave.
It was gathered that at the time of the riotous  screams, one of the assailants, suspected to be a cultist, checked on the three kids who at the time were crying for help. The three-year-old allegedly wanted to scream, but the eight-year-old quickly cupped his mouth.
At 5 a.m after the kids noticed they could no longer hear any sound, they held one another’s hand and stole into the room of the girls where the incident took place. They met their big sister, Miss Agbaje, squatting beside the wardrobe, but dead a second look, they saw Miss Bragademo, snoring in the bed. They tapped her, asking her to alert neighbours. The children said the lady insisted that the door was locked and asked the eight-year-old to go through an aperture to alert their neighbours. It was gathered that on getting to the house, they did not only meet the main door of the house unlocked, they met the bunch of keys on the dining table, suggesting that the boys probably did not break into the house in the first instance.
Thereafter, the police was alerted and the issue was treated as robbery case. But on a second thought and after further probing of the deceased’s friend, mother of the deceased, Mrs Ironsi, whose husband is from the popular late Major General Aguiyi Ironsi family, said there was more than met the eye concerning the murder of her daughter, whom she described as her angel and jewel.
“I want the Inspector  General of Police, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, and other security operatives to intervene. I want the killers of my daughter to be brought to book. My daughter cannot die like that,” Mrs Ironsi, who is nursing a baby, lamented amid tears.
Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Delta State Command, Mr Lucky Uyabeme, did not pick his call to confirm the incident as of the time of filing this report, but the deceased mother said the police at Agbor had been asked to take a second look at the case after she lodged a complaint.