Revealed! Bridget Agbaheme was beheaded to get at her Pastor husband: Inside story of Kano Beheading of Igbo woman

Revealed! Bridget Agbaheme was beheaded to get at her Pastor husband: Inside story of Kano Beheading of Igbo woman

Emerging details of the brutal beheading of Bridget Agbaheme, a Christian Igbo woman are pointing towards the facts that the assassination was a long-term plot to get at her husband, who is a Christian pastor. Mrs Agbaheme, who sells plastic in shop in market in Kano State capital was targeted by the jihadists, who had earlier plotted her death.

The jihadists accused her of defaming the Islamic religion, a false excuse they used to murder her.

Late Mrs. Bridget Agbaheme, a mother of one, was married to Pas­tor Mike Agbaheme, a senior pas­tor with Deeper Life Bible Church in the state in 1982. The deceased family hails from Orodo village in Mbaitolu Local Government area of Imo State.

Relatives of the Igbo woman beheaded in Kofar Wambai market in Kano that spoke with Hope For Nigeria this afternoon have explained that the earlier story that Mrs Bridget was having a religious argument with someone was a wicked lie planted by her killers. The claimed that her gruesome murder was planned and executed by Muslims in the Kofar Wambai market in Kano without any provocation.

Revealed! Bridget Agbaheme was beheaded to get at his Pastor husband: Inside story of Kano Beheading of Igbo woman

According to Mr Odechukwu, a member of Mbaitoli Association in Kano, a young man came to Mrs Bridget shopfront to wash his legs for the usual Muslims prayers and she appealed to him to go elsewhere to wash his legs as her customers are still in the shop, but the young man having ulterior motives, shouted Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, lying to his group that Mrs Bridget has blasphemed against Prophet Mohammed.

Nigerian security forces stood by as jihadists in Kano behead and parade the head of Igbo Christian woman for alleged blasphemy [Details]

Efforts by her Husband, Pastor Mike  Agbaheme who hails from Amaukwu, Orodo town in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo state and a Pastor of the Deeper Life Ministry, Brigade, Kano and other traders to explain to already stationed Muslim youths proved abortive.

They dragged her away from the husband, according the relatives that spoke with Hope For Nigeria, beheads her and used her head as trophy to parade around the market and the town center.

The jihadists had a field day parading Bridget’s decapitated head for over 2 hours. Yet no security agent tried to stop them.

Revealed! Bridget Agbaheme was beheaded to get at his Pastor husband: Inside story of Kano Beheading of Igbo woman

The Igbo residents in Kano says they regretted that the emergence of 'General' Muhammadu Buhari have emboldened members of the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen and other Islamist fundamentalist individuals across the country, as they are sure that they will never be prosecuted despite the nature and magnitude of their offense.

Saturday Sun learnt that follow­ing the tension that pervaded the area, many Christians stayed in­doors or limited their movements to seemingly less volatile areas as fear persists that the extremists may be up to something else.

Kano State chapter of the Chris­tian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has decried the killing and the cir­cumstance leading to the pastor’s wife’s death. They held an emer­gency meeting, but would make their position public in due course.

Saturday Sun also gathered that the leader of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Kumuyi has request­ed for details of the incident.

An emergency meeting of the Imo Community Association was going on somewhere in Sabon Gari area of the state as at press time while the Chairman of the Igbo Commu­nity Association, Chief Eni Michael has described the death as barbaric and “most painful to every Igbo man and woman in the state”.

He said that Igbo people living in Kano demand nothing but justice, adding that they would monitor the situation until the perpetrators of the dastardly act are brought to justice.

“We are not happy at all. A human being is a human being, no matter his tribe or state of origin. Her death is a challenge, we must make sure it does not happen again. And that will start with making sure that those be­hind this murder do not go scot-free.

He charged the police to extend their dragnets to bring in anybody that played a role in the mob action against the Igbo lady.