70 year old man beheaded in Akwa Ibom

"Get rich quick syndrome" is at play again. Ete-Isang, as he was fondly called left his house in the evening of Monday to scout for straws to feed his goat did not return back even after night-fall. Worried by this strange development, the children quickly reported the matter to the newly elected VillageHead, Chief Ekomobong Peter Assam who wasted no time as he summoned an emergency town hall meeting of all the villagers to discuss the matter.

A search party was immediately dispatched to comb the bushes in the direction where he was said to have been seen earlier in theday. His lifeless body was found just less than half a mile from his backyard along the road leading to a nearby stream called Odu Iyak.

The Divisional Police office of Eket, Mr Idowu Owohunwa was intimated where he immediately visited the scene alongside some of his men for proper investigation. No arrest was however, made as no strong suspect was identified by the villagers the in course of police preliminary investigation.

But a young lady in her early thirties simply known as Edikan said she saw a strange young man along the road of the bush stream while going to fetch water to cook food for her children and met a young man who easily got angry with her and questioned her why she was staring at him so intently, then treathed to beat her if she continued staring at him. She said though she did not know him but could recognize him if she saw him again.

But it will be recalled that in 2001, more than eleven people including children believed to be witches and wizards were tortured and killed in this village alone and buried in an unknown mass grave.