At least one person was allegedly killed and about five houses set
ablaze yesterday at Akuzor Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area,
Anambra State, by irate mob in protest over the killing of a tenant by
his landlord’s son.Trouble started when a tenant simply
identified as, David was attacked by a landlord and his family for
allegedly owing electricity bill.
As the tenant was being
beaten, one of the landlord’s sons, Tochukwu, stabbed the tenant with a
knife from the back and the knife pierced through and surfaced at his
stomach. He slumped and died.It was gathered that before
the stabbing, the landlord’s daughter had earlier hit the tenant with
electric
pressing iron on his face which made him to lose his teeth.
Noticing
that the tenant has died, sympathisers and passers-by mobilised into a
mob and set five houses and a car belonging to the landlord ablaze.
Consequently,
tenants who lived in some of the houses quickly removed their
properties before the mob set the entire houses ablaze despite efforts
made by the police to stop them.When Contacted, the Ogidi
Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mr. Hassan Musa confirmed the incident
adding that the landlord has been arrested and case file transferred to
the State Intelligent and Investigation Bureau, SIIB, Awka for further
investigation.
He said the team from his division tried to stop
the angry mob from destroying or setting the houses ablaze, but they
eventually scaled the wall through the back and set them ablaze
The
DPO noted that the corpse of the victim has been deposited at Iyi-enu
Morgue, while the police have declared a manhunt for the suspect and his
sister that hit the deceased with a pressing iron
As at the time of filing this report, some tenants were seen packing their properties out of the premises under Police watch.
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