Palpable confusion and apprehension have
gripped the sleepy rural Umuariam community in Obowo Local Government Area of
Imo State, following the alleged murder of 47-year-old Madukaku Oguh by his
elder brother, Aligwekwe Oguh.
An eyewitness account had it that the alleged
assailant, who butchered his younger brother with a sharp cutlass, disappeared
from the community thereafter.
It was also gathered that the deceased had a
frosty relationship with his elder brother and wife before the incident
occurred.
A villager, who claimed that she witnessed the
ugly incident as it played out but spoke on strict grounds of anonymity,
recalled that Aligwekwe’s wife, Mrs. Linda Oguh, was seated at the entrance to
the family compound, when Madukaku returned from work.
The eyewitness said: “Linda accused her
brother in-law of looking at her suspiciously and started raining abuses on
him. An obviously embarrassed Madukaku called her to order, but she continued
the tirade.”
The eyewitness, a female, said when Madukaku
could no longer withstand the insult, he allegedly brandished a small knife and
threatened to use it against her, if she continued to abuse him.
“Aligwekwe, who was close by, dealt cuts on
his brother with a machete,” the woman recounted.
The deceased was said to have ran away from
his brother, but could not go far because of the flow of blood.
She said: “He slumped and started gasping for
breath. Some sympathizers arrived at the scene and rushed him to a nearby
hospital. He died not long after.”
The assailant’s wife, who spoke to journalists
later, expressed regret over the act, even as she described it as “the
handiwork of the devil.”
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