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It was tragedy in Benin the capital city of Edo State, Nigeria as a rampaging neighbour descended on the family of Mr Oliver Udeh who hails from Nsukka in Enugu state on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 to cause mayhem to the unsuspecting family.
The family of six all the day had a smooth but their their happy day was cut short when a co-tenant identified as Mike Okezie from Abia State aged about 50 years old got hold of a machete and started what many could explain as "Act of a sole terrorism" See pictures after the cut...........
Mr Okezie after his act 1, scene 1 episode was over, two of the children, Favour, 3 years old, and Destiny, 9 months, both boys, was seen lying lifeless. Two others, Gift, 7 years, and Goodness, 5 years had their nose and wrist, cut off respectively by the devil-infected farmer.
So far, the dead bodies had been deposited at Stella Obasanjo Hospital, Benin, while the other two, who sustained serious injuries were admitted at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).
Narrating the story,
“He wanted to kill my wife but my wife escaped to go and call neigbours. Before they came, Mike had fled into the bush. We are still looking for him,” he said.
“I did not have any quarrel with the man. But I learnt he complained that my children obstructed his way. My wife told me that he then proceeded to push one of them down. I think he didn’t like seeing my children. Because I traveled, he then had the opportunity to attack them and killed two,” Udeh said.
In her own version of the story, the wife of Mr Udeh narrated
“Three days ago, my children were playing
within the compound when our neigbour arrived and began to question why they
ran past the front of his room. He then used a wheelbarrow to block the way.”
“I went to beg him to forgive the children but he said my
husband and I were sending them to insult him. In a short while, he pounced on
me and held me by the neck. Next, he seized a cutlass and pursued me, but I ran
for my life.
“When he could not keep pace with me, he returned to a spot
in the compound and sat down. Thinking that his anger had simmered down, I went
to the kitchen to take care of my cooking but I didn’t know he had locked the
doors, with my children inside. A little while later, I heard the children,
screaming for help and there was no way I could get in. All my six children
were inside at that time. While I was outside, he was busy dealing the children
machete blows.
“While that encounter lasted, he killed two while the two
grownups escaped through the window. He succeeded in killing my baby of nine
months and the other, who was three years old. The dead were both boys. I want
government to find the man and kill him just as he killed my children; we are a
poor family.”
she
said: “He had a quarrel with my husband three years ago. What caused the
quarrel was that he brought a chameleon from the farm and smoked it in my
kitchen. My husband warned him about it, saying a chameleon was dangerous. So,
my husband had to throw it away. Three days later, my children fell sick. Since
then, he has been chasing my children around but we didn’t know he haboured
such evil intention.
“When I realised that he was killing the children, I
struggled to break into the room. But by the time I succeeded, part of the
horror I saw was that he had sliced my baby’s throat; he had also cut my other
son’s head. He cut off my girl’s wrist and sliced the girl’s nose. Thereafter,
he escaped through the window and fled into the bush.
“We need help now. We don’t even have any money to pay for
the x-ray or operation on the rest of the children, who are alive,” she said.
At the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, doctors
described the condition of the two children on admission as “stable but
critical.”
Reacting to the horror the Police spokesperson of the Edo State Police Command, Noble Uwoh, said his men are are after the killer and assures the people of police commitment to bring the culprit to justice.
Abeg make dem do, cos this one is too much.
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