A suspect now in police custody in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Saturday Akpan, has explained why he hired assassins to murder his uncle, Pastor Okon Nnnana. The late Nnnana hailed from Ika Local Government Area of the state. Akpan told journalists that he hired assassins who demanded N250,000 but got only N100,000 and kidnapped the old man from his family compound. [color=#99000]The suspect added that the man was taken to Ikot Udo forest where he was murdered and buried in a shallow grave. He said he ordered Nnnana’s murder because of a land dispute involving the extended family.[/color]
The suspect’s accomplice, Mr Friday Akpan, noted that while he witnessed Nnnana’s torture and eventual killing, he did not partake in the act but swore an oath of secrecy. He said that his younger brother, in whose house the victim was kept and tortured, died of a strange illness a week after the man was murdered. Addressing journalists at the police headquarters, Uyo, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Gabriel Achong, said the son of the deceased reported the case of his missing father to the police, after a quarrel concerning a family land.
The police boss, who spoke through the Asstant Commissioner of Police, Mr Mike Okoli, noted Saturday Akpan, who was arrested along with Friday Akpan, owned up to the crime during interrogation which enabled the police to discover the shallow grave where they dumped their victim. He said: “Even the efforts made by the family to ensure amicable resolution of the matter by conveying a family peace meeting was snubbed by Mr Saturday Akpan, prompting suspicion that he has a hand in the disappearance of the late Pastor Okon Nnana “They led the police to Ikot Udo forest where they dug a shallow grave and dumped the body of their victim with his hands tied to his back.
“The relations of the victim were invited while the body was exhumed and handed over to a pathologist for autopsy to enable police to begin prosecution of the matter.” The police chief regretted that the rate of senseless killing was on the rise in the state especially over very trivial.

tayebest:
Oga! ah no go lie you o, this is really the reason why I always run from village... I no wan die untimely death!

TRADELYN:

Fear not!
Don't you know that the fear of death will limit your success in life?

tayebest:
so you mean I should go and face death?

TRADELYN:


Most of us don't know what will kill us. Not doing anything at all more risky!

A truly mature man must get to a stage in life where the fear of death does not worry him.