A warrant officer with
the Nigeria Army, 50-year-old Joseph Ekpenyong Okon has been shot dead by his
elder brother. The suspect was said to have taken the action as a way of
protesting against the deceased’s decision to marry a new wife.
Rivers
State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Fadairo, who confirmed the incident,
told Saturday
Sun that
the Army officer was killed on January 24, following his decision to marry
another woman identified as Ruth.
It was gathered that the
late warrant officer had earlier got married to a Liberian woman who now lives
in Ohafia, Abia State, as his first wife.
“When the deceased went
back to his base in Akwa Ibom, the elder brother, Okon Ekpenyong Okon with
other family members wanted to park out the luggage of the new wife. They
abused her and this prompted her to call her husband to inform him of the
threats from his family”, the police boss disclosed.
As a result, the deceased
was said to have rushed to Cross River State to settle the dispute. Rather than
the conflict being resolved, both brothers ended up in a scuffle.
The suspect told Saturday Sun: “I shot
him over his decision to marry a second wife because we have been having
conflict over the issue for sometime. Whenever we quarrelled over the issue of
his second wife, my late brother will break my dane gun and after that he would
promise to buy another gun for me.”
He said he had to flee
from the scene of the crime same night but the youths in the community chased
him and arrested him before handing him over to the police.
“It was the devil that
used me to kill my brother. I want my family to forgive me”, he added even as
CP Fadairo stated that the suspect, will soon be charged to court.
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