On Monday, the Ebonyi State Police Command confirmed the slaughtering of a little girl whose name has yet to be revealed, as well as two (2) others, by a forty-year-old man named Chibuike Ochie over an unknown misunderstanding.
The suspect, Ochie was said to have storm the farm land where sister and the brother’s wife were farming, including a labourer, and butchered them on Sunday.
The incident occurred at Uburu community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, according to the Commissioner of Police of Ebonyi, CP Aliyu Garba, who spoke through the PPRO, DSP Loveth Odah.
It was gathered that Chibuike got to their Farmland and started inflicting machete injuries on everybody he found there.
It was learnt that in the process, he killed his sister-in-law, younger sister and the hired labourer.
According to Odah, investigations are still going on and they want to find out he cause of the incident .
However, police cautioned youths in the area to be careful and refrain from taking laws into their hands.
“It was reported that by 1640hrs of 24th of October, 2021, when the family of Ochie were in the farm including a hired labourer that was farming for them on that particular day. One of their brothers, Chibuike Ochie, went into the farm and suddenly started macheting them.
“He succeeded in macheting Ogechi Ochie 32 years old who was said to be the wife of the elder brother and the younger sister Margaret Ochie, 35 years old and the said labourer. The three of them were macheted to death on that farm and he escaped.
“In the process of fleeing the scene, irate youths of that area caught and mobbed him. As I’m talking to you now, he is still critically sick to the extent that he is living on a life support machine.
“Investigation is still on, but it will be properly ongoing when this man survives.
“That is why we keep discouraging the youth from taking laws into their hands especially when a person committed offence like this. If they brought the person to us, he would have told us the reasons he had to do this to his family members and he would have faced the law. But in this case, a lot of money is being spent to revive this person.
“The incident took place at Obegu farm in Uburu. According to the DPO who visited the place, he said the farmland is about 25km away from Uburu town.”
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