Onyi who
returned from Lagos State to celebrate Christmas with members of the family is
now dead.
His 45-year-old father, Mr.
Nwofu Igbo of Nwofe community in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, at
the weekend confessed to killing his 16-year-old son.
Nwofu killed
his son over a squabble between him and the deceased mother earlier before she
was chased away by his father (Nwofu) over an undisclosed reason.
Nwofu had
since married another wife, who bore him five children and took possession of
all that belonged to the dead woman.
An eyewitness,
who said the Onyi’s mother was chased away from her matrimonial home 16 years
ago, noted that the Onyi decided to return to his paternal home to enable him
make peace and reconcile with his father without knowing that such venture
would lead to his untimely death.
At the time Onyi
returned and greeted his father (Nwofu) and requested a room where he could
drop his luggages, Nwofu refused to welcome him, so he decided to drop his
luggages with one of his friends where he passed the night.
Investigation
revealed that the Onyi went back the following day to apologise and possibly
reconcile with the father, but Nwofu grudgingly showed him one of the rooms,
where Onyi entered and as he was undressing, he was hacked to death.
It was
learned that the teen was busy undressing, his father sneaked into the room
with a big iron and hit him on the head and dragged his remains to the nearby road,
where he abandoned the corpse.
After Nwofu
committed the brutal act, he denied all allegations concerning the death of his
son when the villagers besieged his house, it took the intervention of one of
his kids from the second wife, who testified against him before the villagers
and the police, he said that he saw his father when he hit Onyi with an iron on
his head and dumped his remains at a nearby road.
When
contacted, the state police Public Relations officer, Chris Anyanwu, who
confirmed the incident, said the case was being investigated by the police.
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