Human heads discovery: ‘My husband was set up’ ***Save My Husband's Life, President Jonathan....

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.
PUNCH