Over Electricity Bill Landlord's Son Stabs Tenant To Death
Yesterday at Akuzor Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area, Anambra State, they was a clash between landlord's son and tenant over the issue of electricity bill, at the cost of the problem....Tenant was being beaten, one of the landlord’s sons, Tochukwu, stabbed the tenant with a knife from the back and the knife pierced through and surfaced at his stomach. He slumped and died. It was gathered that before the stabbing, the landlord’s daughter had earlier hit the tenant with electric pressing iron on his face which made him to lose his teeth.
When noticing that the tenant has died, sympathizers and passers-by mobilized into a mob and set five houses and a car belonging to the landlord ablaze. Consequently, tenants who lived in some of the houses quickly removed their properties before the mob set the entire houses ablaze despite efforts made by the police to stop them.
The Ogidi Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mr. Hassan Musa confirmed the incident adding that the landlord's son and the daughter has been arrested and case file transferred to the State Intelligent and Investigation Bureau, SIIB, Awka for further investigation.
The DPO confirmed that the corpse has been deposited at Iyi-enu Morgue, Police have declared a manhunt for the suspect and his sister that hit the deceased with a pressing iron As at the time of filing this report.
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