The Abia state police command has arrested a 22-year-old man, Agaezichi Ogbonna, for alleged murder.
According to reports, the said boy murdered his mother over a love affair with her sister, who is his aunt, at Akpaa Mbato community, Obingwa council area of Abia State.
Ogbonna was in a relationship with his mother’s sister, an affair the mother came to know about and asked that it be ended immediately.
June 16th, Ogbonna’s mother walked in on them in an uncompromising position and tried to rebuke them causing Ogbonna to pounce on her, beating her to death.
A resident in the community who spoke on the condition of anonymity said
”The boy was having a love affair with his mother’s sister. The love affair has been going on for a long time. But his mother kept warning him against it. Everybody in this village has been warning the boy against the love affair because it is a taboo in Igbo land. Any time his mother warns him to stop the love affair with her sister, Agaezichi will beat the woman. “Yesterday, his mother saw him with the girl and warned about the consequences of their love affair and Agaezich rained blows on the woman. She fell to the ground and died. When they saw, she has died, they ran away but Agaezichi was arrested by some youths while his girlfriend escaped.”