Fear and sorrow have stricken the people of Ogrute Community, in Enugu-Ezike, in Enugu State following the murder of a father of five children by suspected assassins.
The victim Fred Ogbu, who was popularly known as “admore”, was a poultry farmer as well as dealer in poultry feeds.
An Internet-based news platform, Southeast Post, which broke the news, reports that the deceased was reportedly invited by unknown persons to come to Nsukka and collect some poultry feeds from the unknown persons who allegedly shot him dead at close range.
According to the report, his killers did not collect the money he had on him for the purchase of the poultry feeds or his phone and other personal items.
His lifeless body was discovered on Saturday, at a pathway near the hill close to the Water Board in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State.
His body was lying face- up and his motorcycle lying on top of his dead body by his suspected killers.
It was learned that his killers severed deceased ‘s legs with weapons suspected to be axe before leaving him to bleed to death.
It was equally gathered that the deceased attempted to tie his badly damaged legs with a handkerchief to save him from loss of blood before dying but help could not come his way before he bled to death.
An undisclosed huge sum of money was discovered on the deceased as his killers fled after snuffing life out of him.
Late Fred was a butcher at a popular market, Eke Ozzi, in his country home, Ogrute, before joining his wife in selling poultry and pig feeds due to ill health.
It was not yet clear whether he told his family members of the transaction and the persons rhat requestes him to come to Nsukka, a town some 25 kilometres away from his community.
A resident of the community who did not give his name said that the brutality of the attack, and the additional efforts of cutting his legs, suggest that it might be the handiwork of persons personally angry with the deceased.
The matter has been reported to the police but it was known efforts been made by the police to track down as we were unable to state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Daniel Ndukwe, before press time.
