By Abel Daniel, Lafia
The Nasarawa State crisis which, pitted the Eggon tribe
against the Alago, took a frightening turn after two Eggon men, said to be
brothers, were beheaded.
Peter Abaku, 32, and his brother, James, 28, both refugees
in Lafia, the state capital, as a result of the conflict in Nasarawa, were said
to be returning to Obi in Eggon area, where they had lived, to move their
properties when they were ambushed by some Alago men. The incident, according to report, happened
on Monday.
The Abaku brothers died a horrifying death.
An eye witness, who accompanied them on the ill-fated trip
but escaped, said the assailants tied the victims to a tree, plucked out their
eyes, removed their hearts before beheading them. An Eggon youth leader, who
spoke anonymously to Sunday Vanguard in Lafia, said he and some of his kinsmen
visited the scene of murder in the
company of Nasarawa State Commissioner
of Police, Mr. Abubakar, and met the two brothers dead and tied to a tree with parts of the bodies removed.
According to him, the police commissioner pleaded with them
not to allow the matter get out of hand by taking the law into their hands. “It
was such a horrible sight seeing two brothers killed and parts of their bodies removed”, the youth
leader lamented.
The bodies were said to have been taken to Dalhatu
Specialist Hospital, Lafia but were later released by the police to relations
and buried in Tudun Gwandara on Tuesday.
Vanguard
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