43 years old Andrew Maduku, an official of the Department of State
Services, DSS attached to the Bayelsa office, was set ablaze at Oghara,
Delta State by a 20 year old man. According to
Vanguard,
the brother of the victim, Felix, said his brother who is a father of
four had a confrontation with his attacker over a torchlight he shone on
his face.
“My brother’s assailant doused him in fuel and set him on fire for
scolding the suspect, who had pointed rays from a torch light on his
(Andrew) face as he walked home.
Refusing to put off the torch, my brother walked up
to the suspect, and slapped him leading to a fight involving my brother
and his assailant, who was accompanied by his friends. Like every law
abiding citizen, my brother reported the matter at the Oghara police
station and was accompanied by some policemen to the residence of the
suspect. On sighting the team of policemen, the suspect fled leading to
the seizure of his laptop by the police. On April 24, the suspect, who
had been stalking my late brother, poured fuel on him, and immediately
set him ablaze leading to his death the next day as result of 86 degree
burns sustained from the incident.”he said
