Kenechukwu Okeke, the lawyer cum human rights activist who sued a host of celebrities for supporting #EndSARS protests against police brutality and bad governance has reportedly been murdered in Anambra state.
A report by Daily Post revealed that Okeke was killed in the presence of his wife, Mrs Blessing Odinakachi Okeke and his little daughter in Nkpor, near Onitsha, Anambra State.
According to the report, Okeke was macheted by his attackers numbering seven in his compound and a keg of fuel poured on him before he was lit up and left to burn to death.
In the report, Okeke’s wife was quoted as saying; “Kenechukwu Okeke was killed by his tenant.
”The Tenant, Chiadiobi, was living in our house, but when he packed out without our knowledge and asked to be given two months of his rent that he left, we told him he should have notified us that he was packing out.
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“My husband was not around the day he came but I told him he packed out of the house without our knowledge and should not be given back any money. He threatened to deal with us, saying he will teach my husband a lesson. I called my husband and told him what the boy said and that he should not come to confront him, since they say he is a bad boy.
“My husband later reported the matter to the DSS and to the police, and he was made to write an undertaking, but he was still coming to terrorize us. Sometimes he will come to our house and break open the gate and come in and pick whatever he wants to pick.
“One day, he came to our house and my husband confronted him, without knowing that he had many boys with him downstairs, and before my husband could do anything, they macheted him, and the fuel we wanted to pour into our gen, they poured it on him and lit him up, and that was how my husband died.
“That day was Sunday and not everyone was around, and the few people around tried to quench the fire and also stop it from burning our house, and later we took him to hospital in Enugu, and that was how he died,” she added.
