President of Okumagba Avenue, Warri,
Delta State, Solomon Onyeoghani, was
on Friday [Aug 10] allegedly stabbed to death with a broken bottle by a
suspected cult member, Chukwuka Kelubia.
According to PUNCH, trouble started
when Kelubia, 29, accused the
deceased of stealing his internet modem. The suspect was said to have hidden
close to the victim’s house and pounced on him while he was going to his
mother’s shop, stabbing him many times in the neck.
It was learnt that Solomon, 24, a 300-Level student of the
Department of Business Education, Delta State University, Abraka, died on his
way to a hospital in the area.
Kelubia, a student
of Auchi Polytechnic, had last Tuesday accused Solomon of stealing his internet
modem, an allegation the deceased denied.
When journalists visited the
residence of the deceased on Sunday, his father, Mr. Augustine Onyeoghani, said he had already contacted the suspect
on the phone to come over for an amicable settlement of the problem.
Augustine said, “The problem started on Tuesday,
when my son told me about it. I went to Kelubia’s father to tell him because we
are neighbours and we come from the same local government (Ika North East)”.
The father promised to call his son to
order. I personally called him (Kelubia) on the phone and he told me he was not
around. When he eventually came on Friday, he came to my house and told me that
he was going to kill my son. This happened around 4:30pm.
Immediately he (Solomon) came in, he
told me that his sister was calling him from the store. Not up to 20 minutes
after he left the house, someone came to tell me that he was dead.
“I didn’t know that the boy meant to kill
my son. They did not fight. The boy rushed out from nowhere and started
stabbing him with broken bottle. He stabbed him severally in the neck.”
Spokesman of the Delta State Police
command, Mr. Charles Muka, who
confirmed the incident, said the suspect was possibly still on the run.
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