“His (Nwakwo) bulky frame was lying lifeless inside his office in the pool of his congealed blood with deep cut of a machete on his neck.” …Hit with a plank on his head, the APC Chairman collapsed and was confirmed dead at the hospital”
Details have emerged on how two prominent Nigerians; the former Chairman of the Owerri chapter of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ndionyema Nwankwo, and Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Gboko South, Gboko Local Government Area, Tersoo Ahu, were gruesomely murdered within 24 hours.
While Nwakwo was gruesomely murdered in his office in the Imo State capital, Police Command in Benue gave a graphical details of the murder of Tersoo Ahu, at the registration training centre.
Mr. Nwakwo, the NBA former Chairman, 64, who hails from Arochukwu in Abia State, was reportedly murdered in his office at School Road, Owerri on Saturday.
The development was confirmed in a statement by the Secretary of the NBA in the state, Chinedu Agu, on Sunday.
Agu said Nwankwo left home on Saturday and did not return, a development that made his family members become curious.
He said one of those who shared office with Nwankwo, Ishmael Nkwocha, who went to check out the office based on the enquiries by the family, was to find the entrance door locked and with blood stains when he got there on Sunday.
The matter was then reported to the police, with Agu adding in the statement: “When the forensic experts arrived at 9:56am with their gadgets, they opened the door only for us to find his bulky frame lying lifeless inside his office in the pool of his congealed blood.”
Agu on a closer observation, Nwankwo appeared to have been gruesomely machetted by his assailant, following cuts seen on his neck, which he said was almost being severed from his head.
He said splashes of blood were seen on the roof, fans, printer, computers, table, files, seats, books and bookshelves inside his office, suggesting that he might have been engaged his assailants in a struggle.
Agu said Nwankwo was suspected to have been busy working as his printer, computer, standing fan were on while a writing pad containing jottings unrelated to the incident and a pen were found on his desk.
He said: “A bucket of water was seen in his office, with which the assailants might have washed their hands and machete used in this act.
“A search of the office revealed a machete abandoned inside the toilet in his office with which the assailant was suspected to have used to cut his neck.
“When his body which lay half prostrate was turned, machete cuts were seen on his wrist also and the footprints captured by forensic experts suggested the act was done by two persons as the two footprints were unidentical.
Meanwhile, the Police Command in Benue has confirmed the murder of Tersoo Ahu, the Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Gboko South, Gboko Local Government Area by suspected hoodlums.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Makurdi.
Anene said that preliminary investigation revealed that suspected hoodlums allegedly from a faction of the party in the council ward carried out the attack at the party’s registration and revalidation training centre.
She said that the deceased and other party members were at the venue of the training for the registration and revalidation exercise when the hoodlums arrived.
According to the PPRO, the chairman was hit on the head with a wood by the hoodlums, he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead.
“The youth, who claimed to be a faction within the party, mobilised and attacked the deceased and others where they were conducting training for ward and polling unit officers for the party’s registration and revalidation exercise.
“They claimed it was not the venue that they had agreed for the training of the officers.
