Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
Twin sisters identified as Ikwo Effiong and Idak Effiong, are currently cooling off their heels at the police cell for allegedly hacking their elder brother, Kokoette Effiong, to death for selling their father’s land, located at Ikot Nakanda, in the Akpabuyo Local Government headquarters, and refusing to give them their share of the money.
Ms Irene Ugbo, the Cross River Police Command public Relations Officer, has confirmed it.
A family source, who gave his name as Otop Idebe, said that the young ladies lured their elder brother out of the house to a lonely path before descending heavily on him with machetes.
“He sold their father’s land at Ikot Nakanda and decided to keep all the proceeds without giving part of the money to other family members and this angered the twins, who decided to attack him with knives,” Idebe said.
He narrated further that the twins claimed that their elder brother had earlier sold a part of the land for a huge sum and did not give them anything from it and the second sale without sharing the money with them was too much for them to bear and so, they have to make him pay with his dear life.
Otop Idebe, who happens to be Kokoette’s cousin, narrated that the girls first appealed to their elder brother to share the money with them and when he refused, the girls enticed him out of the house and attacked him causing severe cuts on his head and arms leaving him in his pool of blood to bleed to death.