The Rivers State Police Command on Monday said an investigation had commenced to track down the suspects who killed a mother of two, Chigbewejim Steward, in Abarikpo community, in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.

It was gathered that suspected members of the Iceland cult group abducted Chigbewejim to an undisclosed location in the community where she was gang-raped to death.

It was also learnt that Chigbewejim’s family, while frantically searching to locate her whereabouts, discovered her remains in the location where the suspects perpetrated the crime.

The discovery threw the family members of the mother of two into mourning as members of the community condemned the incident.

Speaking on Monday, Chigbewejim’s husband, Lawyer, who was said to be a pastor, said a known cultist in the community, identified simply as Sunday, was behind the attack, adding that the cultist accused his wife of gossiping about him.

He said that after raping her, they murdered her, emphasizing that he is not a cultist but an Assistant Pastor in charge of evangelism at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Abarikpo and that the boy Sunday, a cultist, claimed he slaughtered his wife because people told him his wife usually talked against him which was the reason he gave for murdering her.

The bereaved husband, while demanding justice for his wife’s death, urged security agencies in the state to track down her killers and make them pay for what they did to his wife. The Ahoada Police Division in Ahoada LGA led by the Divisional Police Officer visited the scene on Sunday evening.

Reacting to the development, the Public Relations Officer, Igbu Akoh Clan Youth Congress, Ahoada East LGA, Ekeakita Chinem, said people in the community had been living in fear over attacks and killings by criminal elements, adding that political leaders and government agencies had abandoned them.

Meanwhile, the National Coordinator, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, Prince Wiro, while condemning the abduction and killing of Chigbewejim, urged the police to carry out a proper investigation with a view to apprehending the culprits and making them face justice.