An
elderly man and his dear wife have met death in a most cruel manner
after assailants hacked the life from their bodies in Abia.
The Abia State Police Command has arrested a man suspected to
be among a gang of heartless criminals that hacked to death an
86-year-old man and his 70 year old wife in their room at Umuovo
village , Old Umuahia, in Umuahia South local government area of Abia
State.
The police has also mounted a man haunt for other members of the gang now on the run after committing the heinous crime.
The Abia State Police Command public relations officer, Mr Onyeeke
Udeviotu who confirmed the incident and arrest said that
investigations were on to track down the other culprits
According to Leadership Weekend, in the early hours of Sunday
February 28 2016, the victims Mr Godfrey Onyenadum Asonye and the wife,
Mrs Keziah Asonye had gone to bed when unidentified assailants
gruesomely murdered them in their sleep at about 1am
The couple it was furthered gathered was only living with two
small girls aged about 13, and eight as their children two men and four
women are all grown ups and were living outside the state.
The assailants were said to had come for some money allegedly sent
to the old couples by their children who were residing outside the
state for their up keep as well as for the execution of some projects.
This it was learnt fueled the suspicion that the hatchet men must
have been those who have been close to the victims and had been running
errands for them as old people.
The source said the mindless bandits had packed the loots inside
the victims Toyota car parked inside his garage and were apparently
searching for the key to unlock the gate before an alarm was raised by
one of the little girls who were in another room.
According to one of the girls when she woke up and discovered her
mouth has been tied with a wet handkerchief and saw a man wearing a mask
who was trying to hold her down she jumped up pushed him out and ran
out of the house and started shouting.
He said, the attackers had also loaded into the car some of the
items the woman purchased for resell in her stall in the village but
abandoned everything and fled when the alarm was raised
The immediate younger brother of the victim, Mr. Lawrence
Chukwuemeka Asonye, said the assailants allegedly gained entrance into
brother’s compound through the backyard fence and through car park
door.
According to him Pa Asonye, a British trained Civil Engineer who retired with the Abia State Ministry of Works “we
found him dead in his bed, while the wife’s hands and feet were tied
backwards with sole-tape before she was clubbed to death The attackers
used stick in clubbing the hapless couple to death” .
The Suspects after the gruesome murder locked the rooms behind the
victims after carting away their plasma television, clothes, some other
valuables and money sent to them by their children for their upkeep
packed the loots inside the victims Toyota car parked inside his garage
and were apparently searching for the key to unlock the gate before an
alarm was raised by one of the little girls who were in another room and
had been gagged with hand kerchief on her mouth.
