Man Kills Brother Celebrating Court Judgment In Anambra

A man identified as Mr Chinedu Okeke has killed his younger
brother, Celestine while celebrating a court judgment in a
protracted land tussle which favoured his village.

Our reporter gathered that a recent Appeal Court judgment, which
favoured Ntoko Ezinato village in Awka South Local Government
against Umuayom Ezinato had thrown its indigenes into jubilant mood
when it was communicated to them.

While some indigenes of the community were said to have
celebrated by taking to a drinking spree, others simply ran around
the village in celebration.

Chinese, a bus driver, was driving his bus about during the
celebration.

An indigene of the village, Mrs Agnes, who spoke to THISDAY, not
Nairalaw, said Chinedu drove recklessly around the village
in a jubilant mood, and while he was driving past his compound, his
brother, Celestine, came out to caution him over his driving, but
he drove by.

“I think he latter saw his brother through the rear view mirror
and engaged the reverse gear to come and know what he was saying.
But by then, his brother had already turned his back on the bus and
was moving into the compound when Chinedu drove back and hit him,”
she said.

A brother of the deceased, Theophilus, told this newspaper that
Celestine was immediately rushed to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
University Teaching Hospital, but was later referred to the Regina
Caeli Hospital where the medical personnel could not save
Celestine.

He was however said to have died while being taken to Nnamdi
Azikiwe University, Nnewi, where the management of Regina Caelis
Hospital had referred him, when they could not contain his
condition.

Theophilus said: “He was our brother, and we regret what
happened. It was our senior brother that ran over him while he was
celebrating the victory our village recently secured in court in a
protracted land issue we have had with our neighbours, Umuanyom
village.”

The Anambra State Police Command could however not confirm the
incident as attempts to reach its spokesperson, SP Haruna Mohammed,
by phone failed.

Messages sent to his phone were not replied at the time of
filing this report.

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