A 30-year-old man identified as Ndubuisi Nwaobilor was yesterday arrested and accused of pushing down his father, Mr. Ogbonna Nwaobilor,and burning him alive, when they had an argument in Abia state.
Metronetworknews gathered that the incident happened at Umuomauzor in Asa North autonomous community which shares boundary with Obingwu community in Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state.
The father was said to have died at the scene of the incident, owing to the impact of the burns he sustained from the incident.
Residents in the community said, the son, a tiler, burnt the father, a retired driver, after he refused to part with the money that the LG council chairman and his deputy shared to some elders of the community.
One of the residents who prefferred to remain anonymous said: “You know that the governor directed that the people selling meet at the Waterside Abattoir should vacate the place and move to Umuomauzor where the new abattoir was situated.
“The Ukwa Local Government Chairman visited the community ahead of the movement of the abattoir to inspect the level of work that is going on there.
“The man’s share from the money given out by the local government chairman and the deputy who is from the Umuomauzor village was about N8,000.
“When he came back, the son, who thought that the father and others were given large sums of money, confronted the father, demanding his own share.
“He never believed the father, and in the heat of the argument, he pushed him down, poured some petrol on him and struck a match that set him ablaze.”Furthermore, the source said: “I don’t know if they were having any problem before that day. But what I can tell you is that the boy takes mkpurumiri.
“So, it could be that he did it under the influence of the hard drug.”The source added that the President General of the community had handed the accused over to the Obehie Police Division for investigation and possible prosecution.
When contacted, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, a Superintendent of Police, said he was yet to be informed about the incident.
He promised to get back as soon as he got through to the Obehie Divisional Police Officer (DPO).
He was, however, yet to get back at the time of filing this report.
