A 35-year-old man, Mr. Tyoakaa Ijoho, has allegedly set 10 thatched
houses ablaze, killing a 111-year-old blind woman, Mama Martha Gyuse
Bonko, in Adambge Village in Vandeikiya Local Government Area of Benue
State.
According to eyewitnesses, Ijoho, who lost his father to a snake bite
recently, was bitter and had gone to consult an oracle to ascertain the
cause of the death of his father.
It was gathered that the native doctor, whom Ijoho consulted,
allegedly told him that some of his family members had a hand in the
death of his father, a development which prompted him to leave his place
of abode in Konshisha Local Government Area of the state and headed
straight for his village where he set the houses on fire.
One of the villagers, Abraham Chafa, told journalists that his
mother, Mama Mezaga Chafa, aged 75, tried to help the 111-year-old woman
out of one of the thatched houses but could not due to her age.
He explained further that his mother, who was not too strong, had to
abandon the old woman who was eventually burnt to death by the fire,
which Ijoho had set, adding that Ijoho, had left the community 18 years
ago only to reappear that fateful day to set the village on fire.
He disclosed further that through the help of able-bodied youths and
vigilante men, Ijoho was arrested and handed over to the police in
Vandeikya while the body of Mama Martha Gyuse Bonko had been deposited
at a private hospital in Tsar Mbaduku.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP
Daniel Ezeala, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
It was in Adamgbe Village that a church building collapsed during a
stormy rainfall on Easter eve killing 22 parishioners in the process.
SUN NEWSPAPER
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