From: OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
Obinna Ezeononigbo from Ekwulimiri in
Anambra State was a shrewd
businessman who started lowly from
dealing on tricycle (keke) spare parts on
Jubilee Road in Aba, Abia State.
Like an average Igbo man, as his business
grew, Obinna needed a house of his own
and to Asa Umunka in the outskirts of
Aba, he went, bought a piece of land and
built a house there for his family.
The neighbourhood began to experience
some swift changes, with the arrival of
Obinna to the area, so much so that he
single -handedly donated an electricity
transformer to the community, which
hitherto had no electricity supply. He was
praised by many in the area for his
philanthropy. He lived peacefully in the
area, until the night of August 19, 2016.
The day started like any other for Obinna,
but for Gift, his wife, it was a day like no
other, as some men from the pit of hell
gave her a scare she would live to carry to
her grave. Obinna had woken up on this
fateful day hale, hearty and after
performing his normal early morning
chores, hurriedly went to the market.
Not used to night life and the
shenanigans that go with it, at the close
of business that day, Obinna having made
it a culture, made straight to his Asa
Umunka home in Ugwunagbo Local
Government of Abia State, to meet his
family –the wife and six children. Obinna
had done this in the past 14 years of his
marriage to Gift, a union that produced
two boys and four girls; the eldest being
11 while the youngest was over one year.
Obinna, after keeping the company of his
family in the night of August 19, retired to
bed on time so as to wake up early the
following morning to prepare for another
day’s business, but that would not be.
According to Gift, by 2.00am, they
received visitors no living soul would like
to have, more so, at that ungodly hour.
About eight men of the underworld,
armed to the teeth swarmed their house
like frenzied bees. Four of them found
their way right inside the bedroom of the
Obinnas, while another four kept watch
outside, ostensibly to keep ‘intruders’
away and cut off any possible help from
the neighbourhood.
“The men were about eight, but four of
them came into our house while the
same number stayed outside, apparently
to keep watch. They came in through the
window and had their faces covered.
When they came in, I began to shout and
they started pulling the protector and
within a short time, they succeeded in
bringing it down and they ordered all of
us to lie down.
“Immediately the hoodlums came, they
started beating my husband and ordered
him to go and dress up and follow them
and he obeyed. They then demanded the
key to the main gate to our house. We
gave them the key, thinking they wanted
to carry the car that was parked inside.
When they collected the key, they
opened the gate and took by husband
outside and they were beating him as
they were going. At a point, he started
asking them what he did that should
warrant such beating. As they were
beating him, I was crying and my children
too, pleading with them to leave their
father. But all the pleas of the kids fell on
deaf ears as they took him along”, Gift
narrated.
Gift made frantic efforts to see if her
husband could be freed from the hands of
people she initially thought were
kidnappers. “Immediately they took him
outside, I climbed the wall of the rear
fence and escaped to alert our
neighbours, but unfortunately, nobody
came out and they took my husband
away”.
She did not end at that. When none of
the neighbours came to her husband’s
help, Gift at that hour ran to a nearby
hotel where policemen used to stay, but
nobody came out from the hotel after
she knocked severally. The same fervour
to see if the husband could be set free,
took Obinna’s wife farther to Flyover on
the Enugu/Port Harcourt Expressway
where soldiers used to stay.
But unfortunately, “When I got there, I
saw only one soldier and I narrated to
him what happened to my husband; he
asked me where the incident happened
and after telling him, he said he was the
only person on duty and that he could not
leave his duty post alone”.
Hapless Gift returned, and by then, the
hoodlums had taken her husband away.
All hopes were not lost on her side as she
expected that the following morning, the
men of the underworld would at least call
to demand for ransom after which the
husband would be released, but that was
not to be.
After a day of Obinna’s abduction from his
house and nothing was heard, from him
or his captors, a search party was raised.
The next thing the search party saw was
Obinna’s corpse by the side of one of the
roads where a six inches nail was driven
from his forehead, straight into his skull.
On why her husband was so gruesomely
murdered, Gift, carrying her last child on
her lap and sobbing uncontrollably said,
“To me, they killed my husband because
it was like he recognized one of the
criminals who came to our house, to be a
mason that once worked in our house,
because as they were taking him out, I
overheard him call the man’s name and
kept asking, ‘even you, what did I do to
you’?”
As soon as Obinna’s corpse was found,
soldiers swung into action and were said
to have arrested some of those
suspectedto have abducted and killed the
business man in cold blood.
Gift was grateful to the army and prayed
that the remaining culprits would also be
fished out. “I was told that some of those
who killed my husband had been
arrested, I will like justice to take its
course”.
If the gruesome murder of Obinna has
brought an unending agony to Gift, the
thought of how to train their six children
all alone, has constantly been sending
chills down her spines. She has,
therefore, made a passionate appeal to
the Anambra State governor, Chief Willy
Obiano, to come to her aid, even if it
meant taking over the training of the
children.
this tragedy happened close to my house.

sunnewsonline.com/men-from-hell-bizman-abducted-murdered-with-six-inch-nail-driven-into-his-skull/

These kinds of extremely sad events are reminiscent of horror fiction stories... Until one experiences them first hand. God forbid.

Meanwhile, why do the mods prefer to ignore these kinds of threads and push nonsense (Bobrisky and other inanities) to the front page?

he should have pretended as if he didn't know any of them. well to the criminals just kill them the same way by drilling nails into their skulls!!

hedonistic:
These kinds of extremely sad events are reminiscent of horror fiction stories... Until one experiences them first hand. God forbid.

Meanwhile, why do the mods prefer to ignore these kinds of threads and push nonsense (Bobrisky and other inanities) to the front page?

may God bless u bro.
Atimes i perceive dez mods are bias ,Doin "I.M" by familiar Monikers

these are d kind of people I pray to die from accident fire....u can not do this to a person and expect to live peacefully.....impossible they will experiece grusome death