Mr Kingsley Ejirefe, community Chairman of Agbarha-Otor vigilante
outfit, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, has been
murdered by a suspected lunatic.
The incident was said to have happened around 9pm at the residence of the wife where he had gone to visit. It was here that the suspect had pounced on him with a knife. When the lunatic saw that the stabbing did not injure his victim, he grabbed a piece of wood and struck him on the head with it.
He was was rushed to a private hospital at Ughelli were he was confirmed dead at about 12am on Friday while the suspect was arrested by the “B” Division of the Ughelli Police.
When a reporter visited the community on Friday, the Commanding Officer of the 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor, Lt. Col Mathew Oyekola, was seen pacifying hundreds of youths from the community who had gathered to storm the police station to demand that the suspect be released to them for possible lynching.
The incident was said to have happened around 9pm at the residence of the wife where he had gone to visit. It was here that the suspect had pounced on him with a knife. When the lunatic saw that the stabbing did not injure his victim, he grabbed a piece of wood and struck him on the head with it.
He was was rushed to a private hospital at Ughelli were he was confirmed dead at about 12am on Friday while the suspect was arrested by the “B” Division of the Ughelli Police.
When a reporter visited the community on Friday, the Commanding Officer of the 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor, Lt. Col Mathew Oyekola, was seen pacifying hundreds of youths from the community who had gathered to storm the police station to demand that the suspect be released to them for possible lynching.
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