The Anambra state police command has arrested a 24-year old woman identified as Somtochukwu Nwafor who helped her ritualist lover kill a pregnant nurse.

According to the report, Nwafor has lured the pregnant nurse under the guise that she needed medical attention only to have her killed and her body mutilated and sold her body parts to native doctors.

However, the mutilated parts would later be discovered in a soakaway pit at Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Disclosing this to newsmen, the spokesperson of the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, said that the suspect confessed during interrogation, to being the girlfriend of the prime suspect one Chiemerie Obika Elobisi from the same village, but currently at large.

In her confession, she stated that the suspect, her boyfriend had called her to clean the blood stains after the victim was m#rdered.

She further revealed how they sell the body parts to different evil native doctors in the area.

Also, preliminary information reveals that the victim was a trained nurse and had been lured to her death after the girl claimed she needed medical attention.

According to the Spokesperson, Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in the early hours of 29th July 2025, following the information of the suspect, burst a shrine of an identified native doctor, Nwafor Chibunna Ofornwatadile from Itima Amawa Village, Ogbunike and recovered suspected human body parts, concealed in cellophane (nylon) bags.

The Command has launched a manhunt for the prime suspect, along with the suspected receivers and collaborators.

Ikenga further stated that the Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has strongly condemned the heinous act, describing it as “inhumane, criminal, and an affront to public morality and the sanctity of life.

He added that the CP encourages anyone with useful information to assist the Police in the ongoing investigation to come forward and assured that the identity of such informants would be adequately protected.