Nasarawa erupts again: Two brothers beheaded

The Nasarawa State crisis which, pitted the
Eggon tribe against the Alago, took a
frightening turn after two Eggon men, said
to be brothers, were beheaded.
Peter Abaku, 32, and his brother, James, 28,
both refugees in Lafia, the state capital, as
a result of the conflict in Nasarawa, were
said to be returning to Obi in Eggon area,
where they had lived, to move their
properties when they were ambushed by
some Alago men.  The incident, according
to report, happened on Monday.
The Abaku brothers died a horrifying death.
*Razed houses…a sad reminder of the
Nasarawa conflict
An eye witness, who accompanied them on
the ill-fated trip but escaped, said the
assailants tied the victims to a tree, plucked
out their eyes, removed their hearts before
beheading them. An Eggon youth leader,
who spoke anonymously to Sunday
Vanguard in Lafia, said he and some of his
kinsmen visited the scene of murder  in the
company of  Nasarawa State Commissioner
of Police, Mr. Abubakar, and met the two
brothers  dead and tied to a tree with
parts of the bodies removed.
According to him, the police commissioner
pleaded with them not to allow the matter
get out of hand by taking the law into their
hands. “It was such a horrible sight seeing
two brothers killed and parts of their
bodies removed”, the youth leader
lamented.
The bodies were said to have been taken to
Dalhatu Specialist Hospital, Lafia but were
later released by the police to relations and
buried in Tudun Gwandara on Tuesday.