The primary suspect, a local ‘vulcanizer’ (tyre technician) identified as Onyema Okonkwo, alongside his fleeing accomplice, Emmanuel Onyekachi, cornered the victim inside her off-campus lodge at Umuadara Umulogho, where they reportedly took turns raping her before slitting her throat to cover up the crime.
A chilling case of gender-based violence has thrown the Umulogho community in the Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State into mourning following the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old nursing student, Wendy Chinwendu Achumba.
The primary suspect, a local ‘vulcanizer’ (tyre technician) identified as Onyema Okonkwo, alongside his fleeing accomplice, Emmanuel Onyekachi, cornered the victim inside her off-campus lodge at Umuadara Umulogho, where they reportedly took turns raping her before slitting her throat to cover up the crime.
Okonkwo, who was apprehended by aggrieved community youths before being handed over to the police, made a graphic, viral video confession detailing how the pre-planned assault turned into a gruesome homicide on Thursday night, May 21, 2026.
The victim, Chinwendu Achumba, was a student at the College of Nursing Sciences, Umulogho. On the night of the attack, she was completely alone in her apartment as her roommates had temporarily travelled out of the area for their mandatory clinical experience.
