A 74-year night watchman, Emmanuel Igbokwe was early Boxing Day found dead in his place of work in Ohokobe Ndume in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State.

Igbokwe who work for Easy On Petroleum, Ohokobe Ndume was found with his hands tied behind him, the legs bound with rope and his mouth and nose tied with his cloth, by unknown people suspected to be robbers.

Speaking at her home, the wife of the deceased, popularly called "Nwanne" by him, disclosed that on the night of Christmas Day, Emmanuel had asked her to prepare food for him before he resumes his work as night watchman.

As if he had a pre-monition of his death, asked Nwanne to escort him to the filling station, while pointing at a particular place that he was seeing some movements and does not know if he will see the next day.

The man, she said requested her wife to come early in the morning next day being December, 26 and see if he was alive and to wash his body should anything happen to him.

"I immediately rejected what he said and prayed over it", the wife said and pleaded with the deceased to come back to the house with her, but he refused stating that if any robbery should take place there, he would be suspected as having masterminded it with his family.

His premonition came to be as very early Boxing Day around 4 pm, the wife went to see her husband, only to see him tied with ropes and already dead.

She alerted people through loud cry and the police invited. The body has since been deposited at the morgue.

Speaking, the first daughter of the deceased, Chinenye regreted that her father was said by close heighbours to have shouted asking his assailants what he did to them, but was immediately gaged with his cloth.

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