Divisional
Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Owerri North, Mr Tawon and others have been
accused of gruesome murder of Peter Ogbonna, who was allegedly the bread winner
of his family. The family alleged that the DPO led six other policemen,
Inspector Dawodu Korie and Supol Henry with the assistance of Mr. Philip Akuta
and Damian Akuta amongst others at large, to break into the deceased house and
abducted him around 1.00am on Friday, April 11, 2014 and dragged him to the
house of one Mr. Philip Akuta, where they gave him the beating of his life that
led to his death.
The
matter allegedly started when the deceased refused to sell some of his landed
properties to Mr. Philip Akuta, who had approached him to sell the land to him
at all cost. Mr. Akuta was described as
someone who has so much money and could always get what he wanted not minding
the means.
He
conspired with the deceased half brother, Anthony Nwankem Oriaku, sponsored him
to commence a suit at Customary Court, Umuoba Uratta against the deceased in
respect of his father’s landed properties.
The
petition, dated April 16, 2014, continued that Mr. Akuta voluntarily brought in
the DPO, Mr. Tawon, to live in his house as a tenant and on the basis of which
he illegally assigned two police officers from his division as personal guards
to the said Akuta, an act, it said made him to intimidate people into
submission in the village with the full protection of the DPO.
It added
that shortly before the matter came up in court on February 27, 2014, the DPO
and some of his officers personally went and arrested the deceased and gave him
the beating of his life claiming that he threatened the life of his half
brother, Mr. Anthony.
It added
that thereafter, they dragged the deceased to the house of Mr. Philip Akuta
where they finished up the beating, notwithstanding the deceased’s pleas for
mercy.
The
deceased, who was bleeding from both nose and ears was moved from Akuta’s house
to the Owerri North divisional police station and was later released at the
point of death with a police pro-former to immediately move his body to the
Federal Medical Centre, Owerri.
The FMC,
it was learnt, referred him to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital
(UNTH), Enugu where the 58 year-old man died two days later on April 14, 2014
as a result of the acts of the suspects.
8 Comments
Ooh Chim
ReplyDeleteWicked souls
ReplyDeleteSo this man was kiled cz of h's property? It's definitely a wicked world
ReplyDeleteGreed!!!!
ReplyDeleteUnblvabu! !!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad!!
ReplyDeleteWen u haf brodas dat untrue to u anyfin can happen
ReplyDeleteWicked world
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