A man
accused of adultery in a village in Abia State has been beaten to death in what
appears to be Jungle Trial and Jungle Justice
The
deceased, Emma Orji, was accused of having sex with a housewife in Alayi, a
community in the Bende Local Government Area of Abia State.
Adultery is
a sacrilege in Alayi and it attracts some capital punishments including public
flogging of the perpetrator.
It was
gathered that the housewife had left her husband’s house under the guise of
going on a brief visit to her parent’s village, but she was found copulating
with Orji three days later.
After the
discovery, some angry youths from the community were said to have whisked Orji
away for the punishment.
He was found
dead the following day.
Irked by
Orji’s death, some of his relatives and friends invaded the home of a resident,
who was believed to have spearheaded the killing of the deceased.
The
relatives of the deceased were said to have set the resident’s home on fire
also torching his car.
Father of
the deceased, Elder Orji, who lamented the gruesome murder of his son by
hoodlums, called on the Abia State Government to ensure that his killers are
fished out.
The Special
Adviser to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, on Security Matters, Captain Awa Udensi
(retd.), who visited the community, condemned the gruesome killing of the
deceased by youths in the area.
He said the
security of lives and property of Abia people are paramount to the present
administration, vowing that the government would ensure that the perpetrators
of the act were brought to book.
The Chairman
of the Bende Local Government Council, Gabriel Elendu, also visited the
community in the company of the Divisional Police Officer to condemned the act.
He warned
youths to desist from taking the laws into their own hands while vowing to get
to the root of the incident.
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