AN
angry mob, weekend, burnt to death an alleged murderer, Emmanuel
Nwegwe, 40, who allegedly killed his relative, Innocent Onu, 54, with a
gun at Umunaga village in Uburu community of Ohaozara Local government
area of Ebonyi state over a disagreement relating to a wedding reception
venue.
It
was gathered that when the deceased, Emmanuel Nwegwe who had shothis
relative last week in their family compound and ran into a nearbyforest
in the area for safety; was allegedly apprehended, killed andset ablaze
by some angry youths who mounted close watch on him barely 8 days after
the incident.
The
Ebonyi state police Public RelationsOfficer, PPRO, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police, DSP, Sylvester Igbowho condemned the manner in
which the deceased was allegedly killed bythe youths of the area,
stressed that they had no right to takelawsinto their hands since the
case was still under investigation by thepolice.
He
said: “The youths went into the bush and discover the man where hewas
hiding; they brought the man out, killed him and set his corpse onfire.
Before information got to the police that the man had been seen,they
have already killed him and police cannot lay hands on any personbut
they still investigating to know who and who actually killed theman.
“They
people are not permitted by law to take laws into their handseven
though the deceased had used gun to kill his brother and sincethe case
was reported to the police which is subject to investigation,what they
should have done as at the time they saw the man was toapprehend him and
take him to the police station; there is no law thatpermits them to
kill the man.“The team that are investigating the matter had gone to
make sure thatthose that carried out the action against the alleged
murderer arearrested and prosecuted according to the law; we are yet to
confirmthe number of youths that carried out the dastardly act; when
thepolice rushed to the scene what they saw was the corpse of the man
onfire and there was nobody they could lay hands on as being
responsiblefor the act.
According
to the police spokesman, investigations were on to ascertainand arrest
all those who participated in the killing of late EmmanuelNwegwe on that
fateful day.“However, the police is still investigating to get
information throughthe grapevine source; to know who and who were
instrumental to theman’s death; we are right to say that youths in area
carried out theact because after the alleged action of the deceased
against hisrelative, the youth had mounted a manhunt for him.
Police
is working round the clock to make sure that those that killed the man
are brought to book. He was burnt to death on Saturday morning”.
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