The incident took place on Friday 29 July, 2022 in the centre of Civitanova. On the fateful day, Alika who resides in San Severino, had bade his 35-year-old wife Charity goodbye to beg for alms in Civitanova.
Alika before he was knocked down last year by a vehicle used to hawk handkerchiefs and lighters around Marche. The accident rendered that Nigerian disabled, a situation that meant he had to walk with the aid of a crutch. He could no longer hawk his wares and had to beg for alms.
In the words of the killer who hails from Salerno in southern Italy, Alika was killed for “pestering my companion for alms,” declared Ferlazzo. The said companion told the police that Alika was pestering her for money . “He approached me with great intrusiveness and my partner lost his temper, ” she was quoted by local media.
Unfortunately the crutch that aided Alika to walk was what Ferlazzo used to pummelled him to the ground. While he was at it passersby were watching while some recorded and snapped photographs of the scene with their phones rather than intervene to prevent the tragedy.
As if that was not enough according to local reports, the body of the Nigerian was left on the scene for several hours. When the deceased wife Charity got a phone call about the incident she rushed to the scene. She had to bear the pain of losing a husband and staying with the corpse on the street for hours until he was finally taken away.
Members of the Nigerian Community in the area quickly rallied around Charity to join her while the wait for the corpse to be taken away lasted. Also on the scene while the waiting lasted was Francesco Mantella, Alika’s lawyer who helped him come to a settlement with the insurance company from the accident last year.
Alika and Charity who arrived Italy 10 years ago, have an eight-year-old son who was not told that his father had been murdered. With the pains she bore and tears streaming down her face Charity had these stinging words for the man who snatched her husband away: “I want to look that man in the eye, I want to ask him why he did it, why he killed my husband.”
The Nigerian Ambassador to Italy Omini Abam in a statement issued by the Embassy of Nigeria in Rome condemned the killing of Alika Ugochukwu.
