Akwa Ibom: Man Accuses Father Of Selling Land He Had Gifted Him Without His Knowledge…Hacks Him To Death

A young man,  Okon Edet , has been arrested and taken into custody by the police in Akwa Ibom state for hacking his father, Edet Oyoho to death .

The incident happened in Uruting Village, Okobo Local Government ,Akwa Ibom state on March 13, 2024.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that spokesman for the state police command, Odiko Macdon,  who has confirmed the incident , added that  Edet Oyoho  owned properties at different locations in the state .

 The suspect has also according to him confessed to killing his father because he had begun to sell the properties in question  including the one he had gifted him.

 Okon got angry that his father (the donor) sold a piece of land he had gifted him without informing him and  he had also failed to make the money paid for the land available to him.

‘On March 13, 2024, following reliable intelligence, cops attached to Okobo Division arrested one Okon Edet of Uruting Village in  Okobo L.G.A. for killing his father, one Chief Edet Okon Oyoho, aged 75, of the same address, by  hacking him to death.

The suspect confessed to the crime. His reason for perpetrating the heinous crime was that he got information that his father, now late, who owned many parcels of land in their community in Okobo L.G.A., has sold many of them, including the one he gave to him as his son to build a house’ Odiko said.

He added that when the suspect approached his father to demand for the money paid for the land, he had responded that the buyers had not yet made their payment, which made Okon attack the septuagenarian.

‘So, he confronted his father and confirmed that the information was true, and he asked his father for the money he got from selling the land, and the father replied that the buyers hadn’t paid. So, he got angry and macheted him to death’  the s[pokesman added–Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you