An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, said the deceased was riding on a motorcycle when he saw some men at Oyoku Ubighi, drinking and eating dog meat at a joint.
The eyewitness explained that the men jumped inside a vehicle immediately they sighted him and chased the deceased.
He said, “We saw Mfon riding on a motorcycle and almost all the men that were drinking left immediately to close him. They followed him and when they got to a desolate area, hit him with their vehicle.
“As he tried to get up and run, people around the area, who thought it was an accident, rushed to the scene to rescue him.
“But no fewer than five persons got out of the vehicle, with axes and cutlasses and hacked the deceased. They shot into the air sporadically to scare the crowd, and took the body away to an unknown destination.”
Also, a bicycle rider, who also craved anonymity, corroborated the eyewitness' account.
He added that as he was running to the scene to rescue the deceased, he saw some men coming out of a white Volvo car with no number plate.
He said, “When I saw them, I was afraid and quickly retreated. In the process of killing Mfon, I heard one of them say, 'You use your witchcraft power to kill my mother. I warned you if the woman died, you too would die. And let us see if your witchcraft will be able to save you.'
“I held my breath. When they finished cutting the deceased up, they took the body away, and nobody could trace them anymore.”
The wife of the deceased, Ikwo, said her husband was going to ask Etim how far he had gone with the aluminium pulpit he was making for the church.
She said from what she learnt, when her husband was returning home around 5pm at Mbokpu Oyoima, a vehicle was trailing him but he didn't notice it.
She said she learnt her husband was killed at a desolate area, opposite a church at Oyoku Ibighi, in Urue Offong/Oruko LGA.
She said her husband had abandoned home to live with friends following repeated threat messages by his relations.
She said, “All along they had been sending threat messages to the extent that a Deacon in a church, summoned my husband and advised him to avoid some of his relations because of the threats.
“My husband had on two occasions been mercilessly beaten by his own people and some cult men in the village. When I reported the matter to the police who came to my husband's rescue, his relations blamed me and fined me one she-goat and 10 bottles of locally-made gin for insulting them by calling the police.
“They blamed my husband for the sickness of her sister and said if the woman should die, my husband would also be killed. And so, they carried out their threat.”
Ikwo said when she reported the matter to the police in the area, they asked what she expected them to do after the man had been killed.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Onyekaozuru Orji, said the police were unaware of the incident but would do everything within their constitutional power to bring all the culprits to book.
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