Human Heads Found: ‘Help My Husband Was Set Up’ - Wife Cries Out

Mrs. Nkiru Mokwe, the wife of the owner
of Upper Class Hotel, Onitsha, where
human heads were recovered by security
agents on Thursday has appealed to
President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate
President David Mark to save the life of her
husband.
She insisted that her husband, Bonaventure
Mokwe, was set up.
Bonaventure was arrested along with 10 other
people in connection with the recovery of the
two human heads in the hotel.
The hotel was on Friday demolished on the
orders of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra
State.
Nkiru said the life of her husband was in
danger and urged the President and the Senate
President to come to their rescue before it
was too late.
Nkiru, a lawyer, who spoke to reporters in
Onitsha on Saturday, said the whole story was
a set up, adding that her husband's enemies
were in a hurry to destroy him and his
business.
"My husband is being detained in a very
dehumanising condition at SARS, Awkuzu, and
the police have denied him access to his
lawyer and relations.
"My husband's hotel at No 8, Old Market
Road, Onitsha which he inherited from his
father, Chief G.C Mokwe, has been
demolished," she said.
She alleged also that the government
threatened to demolish his plaza at Ose-
Okwodu and other properties belonging to him
and his family and confiscate all his assets.
She wondered why the police in Anambra state
did not act on the matter until Inspector
General's office send men to the hotel based
on a petition written on July 2, 2013.
She claimed that the human heads might have
been planted by people who were bent on
nailing her husband and draw attention from
the main issues in contention.
She said her husband dealt in lands and real
estate and there were lots of conflicts over
ownership of lands between him and some
persons which led to the shooting of her
husband on March 9, 2009.
Nkiru said about four of the disputes were
pending in court and wondered why the
masterminds of her husband wrote a petition
to the Inspector General of Police alleging that
her husband stored human heads and arms in
his hotel.
She further alleged that the masterminds of
her husband's arrest got approval of their
petition and smuggled in two rusty objects
which the police claimed were human skulls
and arms into one of the commercial rooms in
the hotel on or before the arrival of the
police.
She prayed that her husband be charged to
court or granted bail.