A 35-year-old man, Mr. Tyoakaa Ijoho, has allegedly set 10 thatched houses ablaze, killing a 111-year-old blind woman, Mama Martha Gyuse Bonko, in Adambge Village in Vandeikiya Local Government Area of Benue State.
Mr. Ijoho, who lost his father to a snake bite recently, had gone to consult an oracle to ascertain the cause of father’s death and was told some of his family members had a hand in his death, which prompted him to set the houses on fire.
One of the villagers, Abraham Chafa, told journalists that his mother, Mama Mezaga Chafa, 75, tried to help the 111-year-old woman out of one of the thatched houses but could not due to her age.
Ijoho, reportedly left the community 18 years ago only to reappear that fateful day to set the village on fire.
He has been arrested while the body of Mama Martha Gyuse Bonko had been deposited at a private hospital in Tsar Mbaduku.
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