It was indeed another tragic moment in Enugu as a Labourer has reportedly macheted four farmers to death in Nkanu.
Our source revealed that the incident happened at Nkerefi community in Nkanu East Local Government Area.
WITHIN NIGERIA source also explained that the four farmers who were all female were butchered to death by a Labourer hired one of the female farmers to work in her farm.
Narrating further, the incident happened on Tuesday while they were busy working in their farms.
It was learnt that the killer labourer who hailed from Ebonyi state was among the three young men hired from Ezza local government area of the state to work in a rice farm by a woman in the village.
Our reporter equally gathered that while the woman and many others were working in their various farms, the three young men were busy working at the portion they were hired for.
Narrating the incident to our reporter, a villager, Joseph Amadi explained that “trouble started after the woman who hired the labourers gave them food around 12 noon to eat and rest before they continued their work.
“It was after the three men had finished eating that the killer labourer excused himself to go to toilet. But, this man remained in the bush for over 30 minutes, thereby raising suspicion among his colleagues that he might have gone to take hard drugs (loosely known as mkpurummiri).”
He added that true to their suspicion, the young man emerged from the forest and began to charge like a bull and descended on the women with his machetes.
“He instantly killed four women and severely wounded two others. Even the efforts by the two other labourers to stop him yielded little results as he was menacingly attacking the women.
“After killing the women, he ran away from the forest. When we heard about the tragedy, we made announcement through the town crier for everyone to look for the assailants. But he was nowhere to be found up till this moment,” Amadi said.
He noted that it must have been the hard drugs that the young man consumed while in the forest that damaged his brain to engage in such crime.
However, the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Luke Ogbu expressed shock over the attack.
“I can tell you that this young man who committed this atrocity is well known here. Though, he is a stranger but everyone knows him. Nobody has ever had any altercation of any kind with him in the community before this incident.
“So, henceforth, we will come all out against crystal meth (mkpurummiri) and begin to know the kind of people coming into this community. This tragedy will make us to have another look at things happening here and strangers coming here too,” the monarch said.
When contacted on phone, the Enugu Police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe (DSP) said that the command was already investigating the matter.