Confession of suspected serial killer: I dismembered bodies of septuagenarians to avenge my parents death

• Police restore peace to Cross River community after serial killings
By Christopher Oji
Peace has returned to the Abanyama community in the Creek Town area of Odupani Local Government Area of Cross River State. Until the arrest of 49-year-old Akaniyene Ignatius by operatives of the state police command, many residents had deserted the community following the gruesome killing of two prominent elders in similar fashion.
It all started with the death of one of the elders of Abanyama, 75-year-old Oko Okon, in his house, with no traces to the perpetrator of the murder. Residents of the riverine community had yet to recover from the shock of the killing when another elder, 73-year-ol...