How 2 brothers sentenced to death for killing farmer
Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Essien Udim Local Government Area, LGA, has sentenced two brothers to death for killing a 45-year-old farmer, Iboro Joe, over a parcel of land. The convicts are Uduak Udo Umoren (48), a pastor and motorcyclist, and his 34-year-old brother, Emmanuel Udo Umoren, a farmer and panel beater, who hail from Adiasim Ikot Ekon Village in Essien Udim LGA. They were condemned to death for the murder of the farmer and a trader from Ikot Otu village in the same Essien Udim LGA, when he went to console his sister in-law in Adiasim Ikot Ekon over the death of her husband. The sister in-law had asked the deceased to accompany her to her late husband’s farmland to assess how much she could sell the land for the burial. It was gathered that, while on the land, the wife of the second convict saw them and called her husband informing him that someone was trying to bury juju on their family land. On getting to the farmland, the secon...