Afikpo In The News Again!
A MIDDLE AGED MAN, ALLEGEDLY STRANGLED BY UNKNOWN PERSONS FOUND LYING BESIDE HIS MOTORCYCLE AT UGWUEGU, AFIKPO NORTH OF EBONYI STATE:
Otu Obiahu, AJM NEWS
Monday 08/06/2020
For some couple of weeks now, horrific incidents had been recorded in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, making the town to be in the news and to be seen in a bad light.
This time around, another tragic happening has occurred again, with the discovery of the lifeless body of a middle aged man believed to have been strangled to death by unknown persons, lying close to Holy Child School, Ugwuegu Afikpo North Local Government Area.
AJM NEWS was rightly informed by a close family member of the diseased whose name was given as Mr. Emmanuel Eni from Ezi-Ogudu, Amuku Nkpoghoro, Afikpo, that the late Emmanuel was found dead on Sunday, June 7, 2020 at Ugwuegu.
According to the information, the late Emmanuel was relaxing in his house at Ndibe with his wife and other family members when he got a phone call, which he picked and later dropped.
When the call came again, his wife got a little bit disturbed and wanted to know who was calling; however the husband went outside, put off his generator set and mounted his bike to go out.
It was gathered that Emmanuel’s wife and a few others in the house tried to convince him to stay back in his house and rest, as it was Sunday, instead of going to meet with whomsoever that was calling him on phone.
However, the husband assured them he would be back, then left with his bike around 5:00pm.
Mr. Emmanuel did not come back as the family expected, but only for the them to be notified about the lifeless body of a man seen lying beside a motorcycle close to Holy Child, Ugwuegu around 8:00pm on the same Sunday night, suspected to be their family member.
The news of the death of Mr. Emmanuel was announced in Ugwuegu by a good Samaritan who saw the the body littered along the road beside a bike.
According to the couple (husband and wife) who were strolling down the Holy Child route; at a point they noticed there were some persons standing at one corner of the road down the route.
As they (the couple) were coming down the same direction the group of persons were standing, they noticed that the men mounted their bikes and zoomed off, leaving only one bike at that very spot.
When the couple reached the point of the gathering, they saw the motorcycle and the lifeless body of an unknown middle aged man lying there, which made them to raise an alarm in the community.
Mr. Emmanuel was a dealer on Motorcycle Spare Parts, and has a shop at EGESCO Hotels, along Ndibe Beach Road, Afikpo, before his unfortunate death.
Meanwhile, the corpse of Mr. Emmanuel Eni had been deposited in the mortuary, as the police is doing their best to unravel the mysterious death of Eni and track down those involved in the wicked act.
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