Unknown assailants has killed Kenechukwu Okeke, a supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari who sued young Nigerians to court for protesting against police brutality in the country in October 2020.
The pro-Buhari activist was macheted and burned alive in his house in Anambra State, said his wife, who accused a tenant of arranging his death.
Daily Post quoted Ms Okeke who disclosed that her husband was killed in October by attackers numbering seven, as saying:
”The Tenant, Chiadiobi, was living in our house, but when he packed out without our knowledge and asked to be given two months of his rent that he left, we told him he should have notified us that he was packing out.
“My husband was not around the day he came but I told him he packed out of the house without our knowledge and should not be given back any money. He threatened to deal with us, saying he will teach my husband a lesson. I called my husband and told him what the boy said and that he should not come to confront him, since they say he is a bad boy.
“My husband later reported the matter to the DSS and to the police, and he was made to write an undertaking, but he was still coming to terrorize us. Sometimes he will come to our house and break open the gate and come in and pick whatever he wants to pick.
“One day, he came to our house and my husband confronted him, without knowing that he had many boys with him downstairs, and before my husband could do anything, they macheted him, and the fuel we wanted to pour into our gen, they poured it on him and lit him up, and that was how my husband died.
“That day was Sunday and not everyone was around, and the few people around tried to quench the fire and also stop it from burning our house, and later we took him to hospital in Enugu, and that was how he died.”
DSP Toochukwu Ikenganyia, the spokesperson for Anambra State Police Command said police had received a report on it, but said it was still sketchy.