Richard Nomanzi, a 43-year-old businessman, was discovered dead at his home in Ogbogoro, in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, after suffering several knife wounds.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, he was found after neighbors quickly notified the authorities and his family about a bad smell emanating from his flat.
When neighbors discovered his lifeless body inside his home, they promptly sounded the alarm.
A woman named Gift, who said she had a child for the deceased, spoke with reporters in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
She said, “My name is Gift, the mother of Favour. Favour is the child of Richard Chijioke. I got a call by 3:15 pm yesterday (Wednesday) after school while I was at my business premises. The person asked if I knew Richard Chijioke Nomanzi, and I said yes. They asked who he was to me, and I told them I have a child for him,” she said.
“They told me to come to Ogbogoro immediately. When I arrived, I saw his corpse at the front of his door. When they turned him over, I was horrified, he had been stabbed all over his face and stomach, with a deep cut across his neck.
“With the help of the police, we took him to the mortuary. All I want right now is justice for him and his child.”
Reports of the case have been sent to the Choba Area Command’s Ozuoba Police Division.