Kenechukwu Okeke, a rights activist layer and a staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been killed and his body set ablaze in Anambra State.
Okeke’s killers, numbering up to seven, hit him with machetes right inside his compound in Nkpor, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, according to his wife.
In 2020, the activist had shown his support for the government during the EndSARS protests by suing some of the celebrities who had supported the protests.
After hitting him, his assailants went ahead to pour on him petrol, which they got from his generators, and then set his body ablaze.
Okeke’s wife told journalists that her husband was allegedly killed by a former tenant of his who had moved out of the house without informing him.
“The tenant was living in our house, but when he packed out without our knowledge and asked that be given his remains two months’ rent, we told him he should have notified us that he was packing out,” she further told reporters.
“My husband was not around the day he came, but I told him he packed out of the house without our knowledge and would not be given money.
“He threatened to teach my husband a lesson. I called my husband and told him what the boy said and that he should not come to confront him.
“My husband later reported the matter to the Department of State Services and the police and he was made to write an undertaking, but he was still coming to terrorize us. Sometimes, he will come to our house and break open the gate and come in and pick whatever he wanted to pick.
“One day, he came to our house and my husband confronted him, without knowing that he had many boys with him downstairs, and before my husband could do anything, they macheted him, and the fuel we wanted to pour into our generator, they poured it on him and set him on fire. That was how my husband died.
“Up till now, he has not been arrested. I don’t understand what the police are doing on this matter,” Okeke’s wife added.
