Posted by Daniel. on 21 December, 2022 under Naija News
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According to reports, a visitor named David Chinonso was killed at Owode, Ogombo Community in the Ibeju-Lekki neighbourhood of Lagos State after some military personnel attacked the funeral of a deceased Mathew Ekpu.
The 15 uniformed soldiers reportedly arrived at the scene in an effort to prevent the body from being buried on the deceased’s property.
This sparked a fight, during which Chinonso was shot in the chest and one of the deceased’s sons, Victor, was struck in the head with an iron.
The children of the deceased, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, accused their sibling, Richard, of leading the attack, which happened on Saturday, November 19, 2022.
One of the children, Victoria Abimbola, said Richard was planning to acquire their father’s house and had demanded that the deceased be buried in their hometown in Akwa Ibom State.
She said:-
“My father gave birth to 10 children, and before he died, he told us that Richard, his second son, built a house for him in our village. We were happy when we first heard until Richard told him that the house he built was in exchange for my father’s house in Lagos.
“The rest of us disagreed with the decision and we told him that the house is the only property our father has in Lagos and it is more like a family house to every one of us. After that, he started putting pressure on our father, who later fell sick and died on September 5.
“After our father’s death, he (Richard) prevented us from burying him in the house. He also tried to stop us with policemen the day we took the corpse from the mortuary for burial, but we restricted him.â€