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Twenty
years after the inglorious Otokoto saga, which set Owerri, the Imo
State in Nigeria Capital on fire, over the gruesome beheading of little Ikechukwu
Okonkwo at the then Otokoto hotel, along Amakohia in Owerri, the
proprietor of the said hotel, Chief Vincent Duru (alias Otokoto) has
reportedly been hanged in the prison. He met the hangman last Sunday,
report said.
A source informed Nigeria Newspoint, that Chief
Otokoto, who was sentenced to death by hanging by an Imo State High
Court in 1996 presided over then by Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, was
allegedly hanged last Sunday after the Imo State government, reportedly
approved the execution warrant. It was not confirmed who in particular
signed the death warrant as at press time.
It could be recalled, that
the heartless murder of little (boy), Okonkwo in 1996 triggered massive
uprising by the residents of Owerri, the state capital, which resulted
to the arrest of Chief Otokoto and his son, Obicheozor, in connection
with the heinous crime which was ascribed to rituals at the time.
Investigations
carried out then revealed that the then famous Otokoto hotel was
housing many shallow graves, that led to the masses setting the hotel on
fire and government confiscated the premises, while naming the street
after the slain, Ikechukwu Okonkwo.
Chief Otokoto and his son
were nabbed and after two years of strenuous legal trials, the court
condemned the duo to death by hanging. His son, Obicheozor was then
executed among other culprits by firing squad.
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The death sentence was
appealed by the accused persons and after 18 years of legal fireworks,
the appellant court upheld the judgment of the lower court.
Chief
Duru (Otokoto) had been remanded at the Port-Harcourt Federal Prison,
but was said to have been finally executed last Sunday after the state
government was said to have given consent for the Umudim Community in
Ikeduru Local Government Area born business mogul, who owned the then
Otokoto Pharmacy at Douglas Road in Owerri, to be hanged.
Nigeria
Newspoint investigation further revealed that Imolites who heard of the
recent reported execution of Chief Duru who was over 60 years by the
time he was jailed, expressed surprise that he was still alive after
several reports and speculations that he had long been hanged in the
prison.
Source: News Point
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