One sustains severe machete cuts in clash over inheritance

One person has sustained severe machete cuts in a bloody clash among members of the same family over who marries the wife of a deceased older relative.

According to the spokesman of the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Babawale Afolabi, it took the intervention of operatives of the corps to prevent further bloody clash among the Fulani family members in Ikoroku area, Kaiama local government area of the state that was involved in the clash.

He said that trouble started after the death of one Alhaji Bello.

“According to report we got from our divisional office in Kaiama, after the death of one Alhaji Bello, his younger brother took his wife which did not go down well with the children of the deceased. They accused their uncle of complicity in the death of their father,” he said.

The NSCDC spokesman, who said that the children of late Alhaji Bello vowed to take back their father’s wife from their uncle, added that the decision later generated a bloody free for all fight.

“As the matter escalated, one Babbi Aliyu was attacked with a cutlass, leaving him with multiple injuries in his nose while he started to bleed profusely.”

NSCDC spokesman narrated further that the operatives of the corps in Kaiama got a distress call and rushed to the scene to prevent further attack. The victim was rushed to Kaiama general hospital from where he was transferred to Teaching Hospital in Ilorin.

The assailant has been arrested and further investigations ongoing.

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