How my father’s brother hacked him to death over family inheritance – Daughter
A man has been hacked to death by his younger brother over a family inheritance in Cross River State.
The deceased’s daughter, Alice, has given a clue on how his uncle simply identified as Ekapong had shot the deceased with a dane gun before he used a cutlass to cut off his head and private parts.
According to Alice, the suspect, who is from Epiebi ward, Ekori in Yakkur Local Government Area, had a running battle with his deceased brother, called Ofrekpe, over a palm fruits left behind by their late father.
Explaining to newsmen how the suspect had trailed his elder brother to the farm, where he had killed him, the deceased’s daughter, Alice, said: “He went to the farm and met our father packing palm fruits which he cut from our family palm trees into a bag and shot him dead.
“My father and our uncle have been quarrelling over who should harvest palm fruits on their late father’s plantation. He has been warning my father to stay away from the palm trees or he will deal with him but my father did not take him serious since the palm trees belong to the family.
“It was one hunter, who heard the sound of gunshot and thought that one of his colleagues had killed an animal and rushed over to share in the game but saw something else that raised an alarm.
“Normally, when a gunshot hits its target, the sound is different from the one which missed its target so the hunter was attracted by the sound of the gun which he was sure got its target but when he got there it was a different scenario.
“When the hunter saw my uncle covered in blood he was excited and rushed to open the bag which was beside him only to see a human head and private parts.
“The hunter looked in the nearby bush and saw our father’s body and raised the alarm over what he saw and the man tried to shoot him too but the expended cartridge was still inside the gun so it could not shoot.
“And when the hunter kept shouting he attracted other people in surrounding farms and bushes. They rushed to the scene and that was how the he was apprehended.
Expressing fear, she appealed to the police not to release the suspect “so that he will not come home attack us.”
Confirming the incident to newsmen, the Cross River State Police Command’s spokesperson, Irene Ugbo, said the suspect is in police custody and will be charged to court for prosecution after investigation.
