Barely one week after yet-to-be-identified security personnel allegedly gunned down a youth in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, another tragedy have struck the community again as hired thugs allegedly beat a 28-year-old young man to death for selling his elder brother’s foreign door to buy food.
The unfortunate incident reportedly happened on Sunday, July 21 in Okpuno Umuogali village of Oba where the deceased, Mr. Kingsley Okoye, was alleged to have sold some foreign doors from a yet-to-be-completed building belonging to his Germany-based elder brother, Mr. Joseph Okoye, who then angrily sent thugs to torture him; only for them to end up beating him to death.
It was, however, gathered that the issue between the two brothers earlier started a family row, only to degenerate to the family relatives allegedly conniving with outsiders to snuff out the life of a the 28-year-old Kingsley, probably in their a bid to teach him a lesson.
Recounting how it happened, an eyewitness Mr. Kosisochukwu Samuel Uzoekwe, who is a maternal cousin to the deceased, said the Germany-based elder brother, Joseph, sold one of the family property belonging to him and the deceased (who was his only brother) and has since then, refused to give him his own share of the money realized from the sale.
His words, “My cousin, Joseph Okoye, the elder brother of Late Kingsley Okoye from Okpuno Umuogali Oba who lives in Germany earlier sold one of their immediate family property and had since refused to share the money realized from the sale of the property with his only brother.
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