{"id":228093,"date":"2026-03-23T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ebonyi-i-killed-my-mother-for-refusing-to-bathe-me-20-year-old-boy-confesses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:42:08","slug":"nigeria-ebonyi-i-killed-my-mother-for-refusing-to-bathe-me-20-year-old-boy-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ebonyi-i-killed-my-mother-for-refusing-to-bathe-me-20-year-old-boy-confesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ebonyi &#8211; I Killed My Mother for Refusing to Bathe Me, 20-Year-Old Boy Confesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Abakaliki \u2014 The people of Ohatekwe Ukawu in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have banished a 20-year-old man, Damian Oforbuike, for allegedly killing his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">It was gathered that Oforbuike attacked his mother, Onyemaechi, with a machete, an incident that has thrown the community into mourning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Sources said the incident occurred over the weekend, after which the suspect fled into a nearby forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">However, youths of the community mobilised, tracked him into the forest where he was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abakaliki \u2014 The people of Ohatekwe Ukawu in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have banished a 20-year-old man, Damian Oforbuike, for allegedly killing his mother. It was gathered that Oforbuike attacked his mother, Onyemaechi, with a machete, an incident that has thrown the community into mourning. Sources said the incident occurred over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[53983,258,256,53982,7654,17913,24927,4327,7753,257,4687,393,27941,254],"class_list":["post-228093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-20yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bathe","tag-boy","tag-confesses","tag-ebonyi","tag-killed","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-refusing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}