Landlord shoots tenant dead in Abia

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Police operatives attached to the Ndiegoro
Police Division in Aba, Abia State, have
arrested a man identified as Ogbonnaya Igwe,
alias OGB , for allegedly shooting dead his
tenant , one Mrs . Ijeoma Chibuzo .
It was gathered that Igwe, the landlord of a
building located at Plot 22 , Obohia Road , Aba
and the deceased are indigenes of Item in the
Bende Local Government Area of the state .
A police source at the station told Southern
City News that it took the intervention of a
combined security team from the Counter-
Terrorism Unit and others that were deployed
in Obohia to stop angry mob from setting the
suspect ’ s building ablaze .
The source added that before the suspect was
arrested , it took the police over three hours to
break into the man ’ s house , adding that he
was apprehended with the gun he allegedly
used in killing the woman .
The state Police Public Relations Officer , Mr .
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Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed the arrest of the
suspect in a telephone chat with our
correspondent .
Ogbonna said the victim’ s body was deposited
in an undisclosed mortuary within the city .
Ogbonna said although investigation into the
matter was still ongoing , preliminary
investigation showed that the suspect and the
victim were having issues bothering on
finance .