Landlord kills tenant over wife’s treatment

Firstclass newsline crew learnt that the deceased was the suspect's tenant.
According to Rita Emmanuel, cousin to the slain okadaman, trouble
started when the okadaman's wife, Ndarake, took ill a week ago after
giving birth to a child that died a few hours afterwards.
Late Titus was seeking a cure to her ailment, when his landlord said
he could help.
Emmanuel said: "On Tuesday morning, my cousin's wife had epileptic
seizures and his landlord said he could treat it. So Itoro went to his
mother from whom he obtained N5,000, then gave the money to the
landlord to treat the woman."
She said after the herbalist collected the money, he assured the
deceased that his wife would get well soon.
Firstclass newsline learnt that when the deceased returned home from
work at about 11p.m., he found his wife in a worse state, despite
assurances of his landlord and demanded to know from him why his wife
was not improving.
He lost first wife
A source said: "Last year, Itoro lost his first wife after she gave
birth to their second daughter. So he was worried that his second
wife, who is taking care of the two children, was going to die again.
"He asked the herbalist why his wife was getting worse, when she ought
to be improving since the man had been given the money he demanded.
"The man did not say anything. He simply went inside his shrine,
brought out a machete and cut Itoro's throat."
A youth of the area, who gave his name as Monday, said when they heard
shouts of pain that night, they rushed to the herbalist's house, the
direction the shout came from, and met Itoro in a pool of blood.
'How we killed him'
He said the herbalist began threatening them with the blood-soaked
machete, which angered the youths. He said they got hold of him, cut
his throat, dumped him inside the shrine and set the place ablaze.
He said: "His body has been eaten by dogs, which he deserves because
we cannot understand why he should kill a young man for asking why the
state of his wife, who he was treating, was getting worse rather than
improving."
Mr. Luis Samba, Divisional Police Officer for Akpabuyo, said the
matter had been transferred to the homicide unit at the Police Command
headquarters in Calabar.
Spokesman of the command, Mr. Hogan Bassey, said the matter was being
investigated.
Firstclassnewsline.net