The tranquillity of the Umuchoko community in
Ngor Okpala council Area of Imo State was
punctured at the weekend following the alleged
gruesome murder of Miss Calista Nzubechukwu
Uzoigwe by a pastor and his daughter over a
phone battery.
Sunday sun reliably gathered that the cleric
popularly known as 'Esom Jehovah' and the presid
ing pastor of Assemblies of God Church,
Umuohiagu III, Umuanyamele village had engaged
with the deceased in a brawl before his first
daughter known as "The Pee" stabbed her at the
back and she died on the spot.
Callista, 23 who was from Okpanku community in
Aninri area of Enugu State had allegedly accused
pastor's daughter of stealing her battery and
charger.
Confirming the incident, a co-tenant to the pastor
and medical doctor in charge of Graceland
Hospital, Umuchoko Umuohiagu told Sunday Sun
that Miss Callista died immediately she was
stabbed but was rushed to Holy Rosary Hospital,
Emekuku in Owerri North LGA of the state where
she was confirmed dead and deposited in the
hospital morgue.
The medical doctor who disclosed that the
deceased was undergoing training in his clinic
stated that he was not at the scene when the tragic
incident occurred, however recalled that he met
the deceased in a pool of her blood about 2:30 pm
that fateful day on return to the hospital following
a distress call from other nurses who witnessed it
all.
According to an eyewitness who preferred
anonymity the trouble had ensued between the
deceased and pastor's family when the former
confronted her assailant over a missing phone
battery and charger.
She said that a boy in the compound had given the
deceased a phone battery and charger to assist
him recharge it but that Pastor Esom Jehovah's
first daughter allegedly stole the items which were
later found in her custody five day later when
search for the items had exhausted.
The pastor, it was gathered had reacted angrily to
the allegation against her daughter and had
confronted the deceased which resulted in a brawl
and the man of God mercilessly beat up deceased
before his daughter went and picked a kitchen
knife and stuck it deep into Callista's back while
her father held the nurse down.
A source revealed that the knife pierced through
the back to her chest and she bled profusely, and
eventually died.

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