BENIN CITY – A middle-aged man, Samuel Ehimwenma has escaped and declared wanted by the Police over his inability to pay the loan which he borrowed from his friend, Mr. Osaigbovo Idaho and from a Micro Finance Bank. He had also been declared wanted over his complicity on the death of a friend to Mr. Osaigbovo.
It was gathered that a fight ensued between him (Samuel Ehimwenma), Osaigbovo and three of persons including one Mr. Kingsley, a close friend of Samuel Ehimwenma, who witnessed the entire episode at Samuel’s store, where his sawing machine was in motion when the fight was on going, and cut Osaigbovo’s friend on the stomach as they were dragging themselves.
It would be recalled that Samuel Ehimwenma, a father of a child, was enmeshed in financial difficulties which could not make him to continue his education hence he opted to work as a Machinist, especially in view of the fact that he had a very sloppy relationship with his father, who wanted him to join the Ogboni Cult to continue from where he would stop in the event he dies. His son, Samuel Ehimwenma, being a devoted Christian, disobeyed his father’s order. His father callously evicted him from his house and disowned his paternity and even threatened to kill him for flouting his directives.
A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the matter, said that after facing such huge challenges, Samuel decided to struggle for his life and started working as a Machinist. It got to a stage he was facing financial predicament. He ran to his friend, Mr. Osaigbovo Idaho who loaned him two million naira.
The source said that he appealed for a financial assistance to resuscitate his ailing business especially to buy delivery Van Truck and other things.
Having felt empathy, his friend Osaigbovo loaned him some money. He also took him to a Micro Finance Bank to collect loan. He said that no sooner he collected these loans and bought delivery van truck, then fire gutted the vehicle and he was bankrupt.
The source added that after he waited to redeem the said loans but to no avail, Osaigbovo mobilized his friends to the store of Samuel Ehimwenma and started fighting him even without recourse to the fact that the sawing machine he was operating was in motion. They beat him up with sticks and woods and injured him in the process.
He said that they injured Samuel Ehimwenma on his eyes. He swiftly held one of the boys Osaigbovo brought to his store and as they were dragging themselves, the boy fell into the working sawing machine and cut his stomach and also cut Samuel’s hands and he ran away to avoid being killed in the process.
The source further disclosed that Osaigbovo quickly went to the house of his mother since she stood as guarantor for her son as he was collecting the loans and threatened to kill the woman if she fails to reveal the whereabout of her son for them to kill. It was gathered that the assailants have vowed to kill Samuel Ehimwenma as they are searching everywhere even boasting that no matter how long it takes them to avenge the death of their friend, they’re prepared. They were insisting that his inability to pay the loan, influenced the death of their friend even when it became glaring that it was a working sawing machine that cut him in the stomach which led to his death.
