Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Essien Udim Local Government Area has sentenced two brothers to death by hanging for killing a farmer.
The convicts are Uduak Udo
Umoren, a 48-year-old pastor and his 34-year-old brother, Emmanuel Udo Umoren,
a commercial motorcyclist.
They were found guilty for the
murder of Iboro Akpan Joe, a 45-year-old farmer and trader from Ikot Otu in
Essien Udim
It was gathered that Joe had
accompanied his sister-in-law in Adiasim Ikot Ekon to her late husband’s farm
to assess how much she could sell the land and use the proceeds for his burial.
While on the farm, the wife of
the second convict saw them and invited her husband to the land on the claim
that someone was trying to bury a charm on their family land.
Emmanuel alongside his wife,
her son and brother in-law were said to have attacked Joe with a machete and
stabbed him with broken bottles on the farm.
Joe was said to have been
beaten to a stupor and dragged to his family compound close to the farm,
despite pleas from his sister-in-law and his wife, who heard him cry for help
and rushed to the scene.
It was learnt that at the
family compound, the two brothers continued to beat Joe until the Youth
President of Adiasim Ikot Ekon Village and other members intervened, and rushed
him to a hospital in Ikot Ekpene, where he was reportedly rejected.
He was taken back home and died
three days after.
The presiding judge, Justice
Winifred Effiong, found the two brothers guilty of murder and sentenced them to
death by hanging.
The court ruled that the
prosecution team from the state Ministry of Justice proved the case beyond
reasonable doubt that the brothers intentionally killed Joe.
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