Two widows demand justice over husband’s alleged killing in Edo

Two widows whose husband was allegedly killed and buried in Obagie N’ Evbousa neighborhood, Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, have appealed to Governor Monday Okpebholo to intervene and guarantee justice.

DAILY POST stories that the widows, Mrs Joy Azuka, 28, and Mrs Favour Azuka, 34, made the enchantment once they staged a protest on the secretariat of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, on Friday, October 30, 2026.

They alleged that their husband, Mr Sunday Azuka, and two others had been killed and buried alive on November 4, 2024.

The widows known as on Governor Okpebholo to intervene within the matter and make sure the prosecution of these allegedly answerable for the killing.

The girls, who had been accompanied by different relations, stated their husband left behind two sons, Godsent Azuka, 6, and Godspower Azuka, 7.

Speaking to journalists, Favour Azuka stated that for the reason that dying of their husband, the kids, who had been each in Kindergarten 3, had stopped going to high school.

According to her, her husband was a bricklayer who went to the Obagie neighborhood together with his colleagues to work on the day of the incident.

“I received a phone call on that day from a concerned citizen that my husband and his colleagues were attacked by armed men, killed and buried alive. The incident happened when he was preparing to bury his father-in-law. The person who called us later helped us to seek the assistance of a policeman, who went with us to the location of the attack to make arrests,” she stated.

She accused thugs allegedly loyal to at least one Uyi Igiebor of being answerable for the killing of her husband, including that the police officer who accompanied them to arrest the suspects was additionally shot.

Favour stated the policeman survived the assault with extreme accidents, including that arrests had been later made and that one of many suspects confessed to killing and burying the victims alive.

Also talking, the second widow, Mrs Joy Azuka, alleged that some individuals in authorities had been working to safe the discharge of the suspect allegedly linked to the killing.

She stated the suspect had supplied the household N500,000 as compensation for the dying of their husband and for the maintenance of the kids, however that they rejected the supply.

Joy disclosed that the Inspector-General of Police, by means of the workplace of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Benin City, later issued an arrest warrant for Uyi Igiebor.

“One of the suspects who had confessed to partaking in the crime is currently in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS. Our efforts to reach the government for intervention have continued to fail, as several visits to Mr Paul Akhere, the Special Adviser on Security to the Edo Governor, proved abortive. If we go to the Government House, they will say, ‘Come back later,’ and they can’t arrest the man,” she added.

When contacted, Paul Akhere, the Special Adviser to Governor Okpebholo on Security, stated he was aware of the incident.

Akhere stated Uyi Igiebor had been arrested, including that the killing was related to a management tussle over who ought to turn into the youth chairman of the neighborhood.

He stated N2 million was agreed upon as compensation for the household and for the maintenance of the kids.

According to him, the kids had been to obtain N1 million every, noting that he had solely been capable of pay N800,000 out of the agreed N2 million.

Akhere, who stated the suspect denied involvement within the killing, added that he was, nonetheless, knowledgeable a few month in the past that one other particular person had made a confessional assertion indicating that he knew one thing concerning the incident.