A man, Chibuike Ochie has reportedly killed two of his family members and a labourer over a disputed farmland at Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. The suspected who is in his early forties was said to have killed his younger sister, Margaret Ochie, his elder brother’s wife, Ogechi Ochie, and a hired labourer who was working for them at their Obegu farm in Uburu. Though his motives for the murders are yet to be known, he is however, currently fighting for his life after being mobbed by youth of the community.
Confirming the report of the killings, the state police spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah said that investigation into the crime was ongoing and advised the youth of the community to stop taken the law into their hands. “It was reported that by 1640hrs of 23rd October, 2021, when the family of Ochie were in the farm including a hired labourer that was farming for them on that particular day, one of their brothers, Chibuike Ochie went into the farm and suddenly started macheting them. “He succeeded in macheting Ogechi Ochie, who was said to be the wife of the elder brother and the younger sister, Margaret Ochie, and the said labourer. The three of them were macheted to death in that farm and he escaped.
“In the process of fleeing the scene, irate youth of that area caught and mobbed him. As I’m talking to you now, he is still critically sick to the extent that he is living on a life- support machine. “The investigation is still ongoing but it will be underway when the man survives. That’s why we keep discouraging the youth from taken the law into their hands, especially when a person commits an offence. “Like this incident, if they had brought the person to us he would have told us the reason he had to do this to his family members and face the law. But in this case, a lot of money is being spent to revive this person,” Odah disclosed.