This morning in Calabar, the Cross River State, some people
butchered and set ablaze a young man beside the fence of the Atu
Secondary School along Goldie Street for allegedly robbing a woman of a
pot of soup while two of his accomplices managed to escape.
According to Vanguard, the hoodlum in the company of two others are alleged to have attacked the
woman in the wee hours of the Sunday at No 3, Mayne Avenue Extension in
Calabar South and were attracted by the aroma of the soup the woman was
warming in readiness to eat with her children before heading for the
early morning mass at the nearby St. Bernard’s Catholic Church and
decided to cart the pot of soup away.
A young man who lives in
the same premises with the lady said as the robbers were about to get
out of the compound with the pot of soup, the woman raised alarm
prompting neighbours to go after them and caught up with the one
carrying the pot of soup and dealt him several machete cut before
setting him ablaze.
“It was almost dawn when the boys attacked the woman and carried her pot
of soup and when they were about getting out of the compound, she
raised alarm and people came out and pursued them and caught up with
this one”. Our source who prefers anonymity said
He said the boy was not able to run as fast as his accomplices were
because he not drop the pot of soup but was running with it which gave
the mob the chance to catch up with him and butche him. “This is not the
first time they have come to our compound to steal. Last week they
removed the car battery of one of our neioghbours and once night falls,
they waylay people, especially ladies around Goldie by Atu and snatch
their handbags and phones”. He said.
At the time of writing the report there was no sign of the presence of
security agents there while the body was still lying by the Atu
Secondary School fence.