A female crane operator at Inner Galaxy Steel Company, Umuahala-Obuzor, has been allegedly killed by her Chinese boss after rejecting his love advances in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State,
Obuzor was said to have been pushed down from a crane by the Chinese expatriate who has identified as Mr Power, after all efforts to get the deceased attention for a relationship proved abortive.
A lawmaker representing Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Chris Nkwonta, confirmed the sad development on Tuesday through a statement made available to newsmen.
Nkwonta, who described the expatriate act as wicked and barbaric, narrated that perpetrator pushed the deceased down from the crane for rejecting his love advances.
While maintaining that his constituency is known for peace, the federal lawmaker demanded justice for the victim and deterrent to other expatriate wishing to do same.
He said: “Miss Ocheze Ogbonna’s death orchestrated by a Chinese expatriate is a gross abuse of the rules of engagement and a total disregard for the sanctity of human life and an affront on their host community, Umuahala-Obuzor and the peace loving people of Ukwa West Local Government Area.”
“This barbaric act once again calls to mind the incessant calls by well-meaning Nigerians that the Chinese expatriates operating in Nigeria do not have regard for human lives and must be called to order immediately to avert the breakdown of law and order.
“I strongly condemn the dastardly act and brutal killing of late Miss Ocheze Ogbonna by the Chinese expatriate who has been identified as Mr Power.
“I hereby call on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, the Abia State Commissioner of Police, CP, Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, the Minister of State, Labour and Productivity, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), to ensure that the culprit, who I understand is being shielded by the security agents, is brought to book and made to face the full wrath of the law,” he said in a statement.
The development comes after Frank Geng Quarong, a Chinese man, killed his Nigerian lover, Ummukulsum Sani Buhari, for walking out of their relationship.
Quarong had claimed that after spending N60 million on her in the two years they dated, she abandoned him.
“Besides huge amounts of money I used to spend on her, I used to take her out to places like Bristol Palace and Central Hotel to eat food. I bought her house worth N4 million, a car worth N10 million. N18 million as capital to start business, and spent N500,000 worth of bags and shoes on her new shop and N1 million worth of laces and wrappers and a house in Abuja which she started building,” he had told a court in Kano.
He added that he bought her gold wears worth N5 million, N6 million to go and process her certificate at Sokoto University and N1 million to install the solar system in their house
