24-year-old Emmanuel Adekola, a National Diploma II student of Benue State Polytechnic, has died and according to reports, he was stoned to death by a vigilante group in Ugbokolo, Benue State. Speaking to LIB, Emmanuel’s brother, Akola Okewu ThankGod, said that his brother was killed on June 1st shortly after he finished his morning duties and stepped out of his house.
Okewu, who resides in Lagos, said he traveled to Benue on Wednesday and went straight to his family home where he passed the night with the deceased and some other members of the family. The next morning, their father told Emmanuel to weed the compound. He said Emmanuel was ill on that fateful day and had a slight fever, yet he went about the errand as requested by his father. When he was done, he took traditional medicine, popularly called agbo, to treat his ailment and it was at that time that he got a call.
“He finished the work and that very day he was not too strong. He was feeling feverish. So he went to take this local drugs. That was when they said he received a call. Before that day he had been talking about his school, saying that he wants to go and visit his project supervisor. So they said that there was a call, that somebody called him and he now left home that very morning between 8 to 10, thereabout, because I know I left him in the house before I went out.“Then, later, about two hours later, they now called me that they have killed my brother in Ugbokolo. I was saying, ‘No, it can’t be him because I left him at home this morning’. Only for me to get to Ugbokolo and find out that it was him that they killed.”
“Let me tell you the truth because we are from a good Christian family and we don’t tell lies, that killing – though I’m not a judge – but that killing is jungle justice. When Emma was leaving on that day, assuming he was caught with weapon or he was at the robbery scene, it’s a different case. This is an innocent man. This is a man that doesn’t… I don’t know how they did it, I’m sure that it’s through somebody. He was not with any weapon, they just picked him and killed him. This killing is arbitrary, it is wrong.”
“I’m not the eldest in the family. My elderly ones are the ones handling this case. I’m sure they know how to go about it better than myself. I am yet to call my elder brother to ask him some questions about how they are pursuing the case.”
“Nobody is happy for now because we never know that that can come up in our family. That day, my brother was in the house here so everybody is surprised. What I know is that God is on the throne to judge.”
“My mother has been crying because Emma is the last born of the family and you know what it is for someone to lose her last born. Even to eat, she can’t even eat.”
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