The mother of the deadly armed
robber and cross-border kidnapper who was killed recently by the police
in a forest in Rivers State has said that he started his criminal career at a very young age and killed someone when he was just 12 years old.
The bandit, Henry Onyekachi Chibueze whose nickname of Vampire sent shivers down the spines of
residents of Imo State and other southeastern states before he was mowed down in a gun battle with the police,
according to his mother, was a thorn in the flesh not only to his
family but also to the people of Umuokpu Umuezeala Abaja Isu in Nwangele
Local Government Area of Imo State where he came from.
According to the old mother, Madam Beatrice Chibueze who
spoke to Daily Sun, the death of her son not only brought relief to her
and the immediate family but to the entire community as he was a big
disgrace to them.
Vampire
who was said to have killed more than 200 people during his reign of
terror including his girlfriend, two pregnant sisters and six children
of the same parents, the woman narrated, was always ready to kill and
his thirst for blood knew no bounds.
It was gathered that Vampire who was born in 1981 to the family of late Chief Emmanuel Chibueze, had been acting as if he was possessed by an evil spirit and had become a terror in the community at a very tender age.
He
was said to have killed a fellow pupil when he was just 12 years old
during a fight while still in primary five at Umuokpu Community Primary
School.
That was the end of his formal education
as he dropped out of school after his father had to pay compensation to
the family of the victim.
After dropping out of
school, Vampire refused to learn any trade but rather joined a gang
called 'Hunters' from a neighboring community and thus began his life of
crime, smoking marijuana stealing people’s goats and fowls, which they
either sold or killed and ate.
Madam Chibueze
further explained that her son was an evil child as all efforts by his
late father to ensure that he became a responsible person proved
abortive.
She speaks further:
“Henry
Onyekachi Chibueze was my son. He was born in 1981. My late husband had
enrolled him at the Community School Umuokpu in Abaja, but he had to
drop out at primary five after he killed his classmate during a fight at
school and he was just 12 years old.
That
incident caused the family a lot of problems and my late husband had to
pay compensation to the family of the boy before the matter was
resolved. Henry had always acted like somebody who was possessed by Agwu
(evil spirit) and at a time, the family had thought of making a
sacrifice to the gods of the land to see if that could make him act
responsibly.
When he dropped out from
primary school, he refused to learn any vocational skill but had instead
joined some bad boys in the community where he started this armed
robbery and kidnapping.
Even
though our family is a polygamous one, my late husband had ensured that
all his children were educated, but it was only my son who refused to be
useful like his other brothers and sisters.
In
fact, it was the disgrace and shame brought to the family that led to
the death of my late husband, who developed hypertension and died
eventually.
Even his family members
including myself ran away from the village because he was prepared to
kill anybody. Before he was arrested in 2015, he had destroyed the roof
of his father’s house when he visited the village."
Also speaking on the exploits of Vampire, his stepmother, Francisca Chibueze, disclosed that he was too strong headed even as a child and did whatever he wanted regardless of what anybody said.
“Onyekachi
was a very stubborn child; he was always fighting in the community and
he was the only child in the family who had refused to go to school or
to even learn a trade.
My late husband
who was his father had done everything to ensure that he was useful to
himself, but that failed. It was his criminal activities that led to his
father developing high blood pressure that led to his death two years
ago.
I had myself advised him severally
to emulate his other brothers and sisters who are the pride of the
family, while he was still younger before he became a big criminal and
brought disgrace to the entire family and community.”
Also expressing happiness at the demise of Vampire was the Chairman of the community, John Obilo,
said that the death of the criminal was a great relief to the people of
the community as he did not only bring the name of his family but that
of the entire community to shame and disrepute.
“The
eventual death of this boy who calls himself Vampire is a big relief to
the community as everybody is happy because of the bad name and
disgrace his criminal activities brought to the community.
Before
the police killed him, whenever he came to the village, people of the
community would flee because he could kill at the slightest provocation.
Henry had killed one of his best friends who was popularly known MC General and he had even killed his fellow pupil during a fight while he was just 12 years old.
I
think that the boy must be possessed, because for him to have killed
the number of people he had killed means that he was not a normal human
being.
The entire community now has
resolved that henceforth, any of its sons who is discovered to be
delinquent would be dealt with immediately as the community does not
want another Vampire who had destroyed the image of the community.
We have
also decided that any stranger who comes to the community will be
monitored as well as who the stranger had come to see.”
Also, one of the youth leaders in the community, Michael Ibekwe,
said that the people of the community were made a laughing stock
because of the criminal activities of Vampire, as they were often
referred to as a community of criminals.

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