147 murdered in Akwa Ibom in 2014 -Akpabio

One hundred and forty seven people were
murdered in Akwa Ibom State in 2014, the Akwa
Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, has
said.

The governor said 17 men were killed by their
sons between September and December last
year, adding that he had a list of the murder
cases which he would send to the state’s
Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice
for publication.

Akpabio said this on Tuesday night during the
inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party
campaign organisation in Uyo, the state capital.

Describing the murder cases as the highest in
the history of the state, the governor stated that
all the culprits had been detained.
The governor stated that the murder cases that
involved husbands and wives were mainly
caused by suspicion following telephone calls
and text messages that the spouse received from
their suspected lovers.

He said, “There were 17 murder cases between
September and December; and in 2014 alone, one
of the worst crimes in the state, was not
robbery, but murders in which the state lost 147
people.

“One of the cases has to do with a young
woman, who killed her husband. They were
arguing about a phone call that came into her
husband’s phone. In the course of the argument,
the woman rushed into the kitchen, picked a
knife and stabbed her husband. The man bled to
death. She is in detention.

“Three men also killed their wives on account of
arguments over phone calls and text messages.
“A boy killed his mother. He asked the woman to
give him an axe-saw and when the woman
refused, he went to his room, picked a machete
and cut the woman to death.”
Akpabio added that a man named Etung in Ikot
Ekpene was murdered by his son.
He alleged that the son conspired with certain
persons with a view to getting money from the
father.

He explained that when the father refused to give
the son the money, the aggrieved son used a
saw to cut off the man’s head.