A man identified Daniel Mgba, has been lynched to death for strangling his brother to death as a result of a misunderstanding in Ndi Agwu community in Abam, Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State.
The state Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Bala, who disclosed this while addressing journalists at the state secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Umuahia on Sunday.
CP Bala said Daniel Mgba, suspected to be mentally unstable was disturbing the peace of his community that elections will not hold.
According to Bala, the family met and asked his relation, Samuel Eze, to go and talk to his brother to stop his threat.
“The man (Daniel Mgba), deranged, strangled his brother (Samuel Eze) to death,” he said.
The CP explained that Mgba was arrested by the community and “we told them not to harm him.
“But before we arrived, he was lynched by a mob and his house set ablaze and unfortunately, the community lost two brothers.”
He said under community partnership, “we decided to engage the two families for peace.”
He added, “Abia is God’s own state and we committed ourselves into the hands of God.
“Through prayer and fasting, we pleaded with God to grant Abia State peace.
“We thank God and all others for their commitment to peace. We were able to achieve this with other sister security agencies”.