Suspected Cultists Kill Man, Dump Corpse Inside Gutter In Abia

Residents of Worldbank Housing Estate in Umuahia, Abia State have been thrown into mourning and despair as suspected cultists on Sunday morning killed a middle-aged tenant identified as Augustine Inemesit in the estate.

After killing their victim, the assailants dumped his corpse in a drainage opposite Living Word Academy, World Bank Upstair Line.

The late Inemesit, a new tenant who moved into the estate two weeks ago, had left his home around 8pm to a nearby dumpsite to dispose refuse within the worlbank housing estate.

He however did not returned home as he was said to have been attacked by the hoodlums.

A source in the estate told THE WHISTER that the deceased had pleaded with his attackers to spare him before he was eventually shot in the head and his lifeless body dumped in the gutter.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in Abia state, Godfrey Ogbonna, confirmed the incident, saying investigation had commenced on the circumstances surrounding Inemesit’s death.

Some residents of the area who spoke to our correspondent on condition anonymity described the development as one of negative effects of the #EndSars protest last year.

They called on the security agencies to be more proactive in crime prevention.

The police have since evacuated the corpse to a nearby mortuary.