Native doctor dies inside grave while exhuming corpse of maltreated housewife

A native doctor, identified as Idike Ezikanyi from Uwani-Amaogbo, Amabokwu village in Aku town, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, contracted to exhume the corpse of a woman said to have suffered injustice in the hands of her in-laws, has collapsed and died inside the grave. The native doctor, according to reports gathered by Africa Update, was reportedly recruited by the late woman’s husband, one Nnadi, and other members of his family, to secretly exhume the corpse of Nnadi’s wife, Stella, who died five years ago and was buried in her husband’s compound.

An eyewitness narrated that on the fateful night, the Nnadi family got more than they bargained for when the native doctor suddenly shouted from inside the grave, begging the ghost of the dead woman to have mercy on him. Before those around could react, Ezikanyi, who made an attempt to jump out of the grave, fell back in and died instantly. Sources revealed that the widower had succumbed to pressure from his family members to secretly exhume the corpse of his late wife and throw it away, to stop her spirit from disturbing those living in the house she built.

The sources said the family members of the husband had hated his late wife with passion and even disinherited their son. The late wife had a bad leg; a deformity due to an infection in infancy. They didn’t want their son to marry her, even though the son depended on the lady who was very industrious despite her deformity. Despite their blackmail and lack of support, the love birds got married and completed a three-bedroom house of their own. The sources further alleged that the jealousy against her escalated, alleging that the lady died after a spiritual attack.

It was gathered that after she died mysteriously, the husband’s family refused to pay the outstanding bride price and also failed to accord her full burial rites. The family members later packed into the house and, feeling guilty and afraid of spiritual attack from the dead woman, they contracted the native doctor to exhume her corpse and throw it into an evil forest. It was during this bizarre occasion that the native doctor died. It was further revealed that one of the widower’s sisters who visited the family of the native doctor to commiserate with them, was mysteriously struck with paralysis. It was reported that after she finished crying she instantly suffered a stroke and had to be carried back to her home at Umuidu Amabokwu.