IZUNNA OKAFOR
A septuagenarian has been apprehended in Anambra State for allegedly plotting to poison a widow in the state for refusing to grant his request to engage in sexual affairs with her.
The incident happened at Afọr Nnobi Market in Nnobi Community, Idemili South Local Government Area of the State.
The suspect was apprehended by some denizens who saw him obsessedly loitering about in the market in a suspicious way (with N1000 in his hand), searching for and making inquiries about where to buy some chunks of the supposed poison for inflicting elephantiasis popularly known as leg poison (ure ụkwụ/enyi ure).
This was corroborated by a video that has gone viral on the social media showing some denizens of Nnobi as they surrounded and interrogated the suspect, with the N1000 in his hand.
Upon interrogation, the suspect, who did not reveal his name and nativity, said he was going to visit his family where they lived in Ichida area of the State before deciding to stop-by at Afọr Nnobi to buy some chunks of supposed poison.
When asked whom he intends to use the poison on, the randy-looking 76-year old man claimed that a widow wanted to dare him by turning down his sexual advances after collecting his N6000; hence the reason he vowed to deal with her and teach her the lessons of her life.
When asked how many people he had poisoned in the past, he claimed never to have poisoned anyone, claiming that this was his first time of coming to Afọr Nnobi to buy the so called poison.
The suspect also claimed that he was directed to the market by someone who told him where he could buy the poison, explaining that he forgot the direction, which made him to start loitering around asking people for the direction to the place.