According to a relative of the late motorcyclist, Rita Emmanuel, the trouble started when the deceased’s wife, Ndarake, took ill a week ago after giving birth to a child that died later on.
The deceased was looking for a cure to his wife’s illness when his landlord a herbalist offered to help.
She said, “On Tuesday morning, my cousin’s wife had epileptic seizures and his landlord said he could treat it. So Itoro went to his mother from whom he obtained N5,000, then gave the money to the landlord to treat the woman.”
The herbalist collected the money, assuring Itoro that his wife would get well soon.
It was gathered that when the deceased returned home at about 11p.m from work, he found his wife in a worse state, despite assurances of the herbalist. He demanded to know from him why his wife was not getting better.
The landlord didn’t say anything instead, he went inside his shrine to get a machete and slit Itoro’s throat.
One of the youths in the area, heard the cry for help and rushed to the herbalist’s house to find Itoro in a poll of blood.
According to the youth, the herbalist began threatening them with the blood-soaked machete, which angered the youths. He said they got hold of him, cut his throat, dumped him inside the shrine and set the shrine ablaze.
He said, “His body has been eaten by dogs, which he deserves because we cannot understand why he should kill a young man for asking why the state of his wife, who he was treating, was getting worse rather than improving.”
The Divisional Police Officer for Akpabuyo, Luis Samba said the matter had been transferred to the homicide unit at the police command headquarters in Calabar.
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