{"id":221331,"date":"2020-05-28T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221331"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:38:56","slug":"man-murders-kinsman-in-abia-as-deceaseds-family-seeks-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221331","title":{"rendered":"Man murders kinsman in Abia as deceased&#8217;s family seeks justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A middle-aged man has reportedly been murdered by his kinsman, in Ohuhu Nsulu, Isiala Ngwa local government area of Abia State.<br \/>\nThe alleged perpetrator\u2019s name was given as Chimakpa Nwogu, popularly known as \u2018Tallest\u2019 in the local area, according to eyewitness accounts.<br \/>\nThe deceased\u2019s name was equally given as Ugochukwu Egwuatu, who until his death was a businessman.<br \/>\nAccording to an eyewitness who pleaded anonymity, the suspect, Chimankpa, who is now at large allegedly confronted the late Egwuatu at a venue of a traditional marriage where he(deceased) was invited in Ohuhu Nsulu community, the suspect inflicted machete cuts on the deceased\u2019s hand which led to bleeding and subsequent death of Egwuatu.<br \/>\nAnother eyewitness said the tragedy was a result of a minor misunderstanding between Mr. Egwatu and some other villagers.<br \/>\nBut during a verbal exchange, between the dead and Chimankpa, the suspect inflicted matchet wounds on Egwuatu.<br \/>\n\u201dAs it is now, the entire community and the residents are yet to ascertain the cause of this mysterious death, thereby keeping the entire family and entire community in confusion.\u201d He said<br \/>\nHowever, the younger brother of late Ugochukwu Egwuatu, Emmanuel, while interacting with newsmen in Umuahia, on Thursday, said the family lodged complaints at the Nigeria Police Division in Isiala Ngwa North LGA, expressing displeasure that until now, the security agency is unable to fish out the killer of his elder brother, who is on the run.<br \/>\nAccording to him, \u201cWe reported the issue to the police, which they responded and assured us of proper investigation. But, we are yet to see positive results. Because we will not allow this wickedness to stand. My family needs only justice to prevail in this matter to avoid inter-village conflicts\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWe appeal to the Abia State government and security agencies to come to our aid, as the reason why our brother was murdered is yet to be known. We need justice nothing less, \u201che concluded.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, as at the time of filing this report, efforts to reach the Public Relations Officer(PRO) of the Abia State Police command, Umuahia, Geoffrey Ogbonna for further confirmation on the alleged killing of Mr. Ugochukwu Egwuatu, was unsuccessful.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A middle-aged man has reportedly been murdered by his kinsman, in Ohuhu Nsulu, Isiala Ngwa local government area of Abia State. The alleged perpetrator\u2019s name was given as Chimakpa Nwogu, popularly known as \u2018Tallest\u2019 in the local area, according to eyewitness accounts. The deceased\u2019s name was equally given as Ugochukwu Egwuatu, who until his death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[1245,7162,61],"class_list":["post-221331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-abia","tag-murder","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}