A young man identified as Agaezichi Ogbonna, has been arrested by police officers in Abia after committing an unbelievably criminal act.
The young man reportedly killed his own mother over a love affair he was having with a blood relative who happens to be his own aunt, at Akpaa Mbato community, Obingwa council area of Abia State.
Local reports show that the 22-year-old suspect was said to have been having a love affair with his mother’s young sister, but his mother, Blessing, warned against the relationship, describing it as a taboo in Igbo land.
On this fateful day, Obinna had allegedly spent the night with his lover. However, troubled brewed when his mother, the late Mrs. Chinyere Ogbonna, spotted her sister leaving her son's room on Saturday morning.
Mrs. Chinyere Ogbonna is said to have raised alarm calling the attention of the community to the sacrilegious relationship her son has been keeping with a blood relative.
This however did not go down well with Obinna as he was said to have jumped out of the room, landed his mother several punches on the face and all over her body which threw her into coma. She gave up the ghost on arrival to a nearby medical facility.
When they realized that the woman had died, the two ‘love birds’ fled, but Obinna was arrested by youths who handed him over to the soldiers stationed at the community.
The suspect who was beaten after being stripped unclad - has been handed over to the Police.