Killers of Justice Margaret Igbetar, a retired president of the Customary Court of Appeal in Makurdi, Benue State, have admitted to killing her for allegedly stealing their family’s landed property.
On August 24, 2023, some armed men broke into the retired judge’s Makurdi, Benue State University, School of Medicine apartment on Wantor Kwange Street and murdered her.
A few days later, her relative found her rotting bones.
According to the state commissioner of police, Batholomew Onyeka, who named four suspects in the alleged murder of the retired judge on Tuesday, the deceased’s nephew, Aondohemba Joseph, led a group to the retired judge’s home where they killed her.
The late judge’s driver, a security guard, and one other relative were among the other suspects detained and paraded.
Joseph, the alleged gang leader, said during a press conference that the deceased owned his father’s landed property.
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