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A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Owerri Branch, Ndieonyemah H. Nwankwo Esq, has died after being attacked with a machete.
It was gathered that the heinous crime was perpetrated inside his office located at 43 School Road Owerri Imo State.
Confirming the development in a statement, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Orlando Ikeokwu, said the command on Saturday, February 6, received a report concerning the gruesome murder.
He added that operatives of the Command swiftly moved to the scene and met his lifeless body in a pool of blood, as well as machete cuts on his neck.
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Senior lawyer, Ndieonyema Nwankwo was found dead in his Owerri office on Sunday. He was suspected to be a victim of a gruesome murder.
Sixty-four-year-old Nwankwo, who was a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association in the Imo state capital, was found, in a pool of blood, with machete cuts on his neck.
The police said they also found the machete used to attack the lawyer who hailed from Arochukwu, Abia state.
According to the account of Chinedu Agu, the NBA secretary in Owerri, Nwankwo had left his home for his office on Saturday, to work.
The Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Owerri branch yesterday confirmed that their colleague, Barrister N.H Nwankwo, was murdered in his office at 42 school road in Owerri, after which his car and phones were taken away by the suspected assassins.
By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri
The Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Owerri branch yesterday confirmed that their colleague, Barrister N.H Nwankwo, was murdered in his office at 42 school road in Owerri, after which his car and phones were taken away by the suspected assassins.
The NBA, Secretary, Chinedu Agu, in a statement, said the incident happened on the 6th day of February, 2021.
He added that the whereabouts of Nwankwo’s driver said to be with him at the time of the incident was no where to be found.
Narrating how the tragedy occurred, Agu said: “At about 8.15am today on my way to Church for 8.30am Mass, I received a call from the Chairman of the Bar, J.I Ogamba, Esq. detailing me to liaise with the former Secretary of the Bar, Ishmael Nkwocha Esq., to take Police to N.H Nwankwo & Co.