A tenant sets house ablaze, kills landlord, wife
BY: FUNMI OJUROYE 24th Sept. 2013 A tenant of a house on Asuquo Eyo Street, Ifa Ikot Okpon, Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, identified simply as Ime, aka Shawa, has been accused of killing his landlord and the wife and also setting the house ablaze. It was said that Ime, 40, had attacked his landlord, Mr. Edem Akpan and his wife, Affiong, with machete before setting the house on fire. One of the daughters to the late couple, Ms. Emem Akpan, told our correspondent that trouble started when her father gave Ime a quit notice. She said Ime had threatened that if her father insisted on sending him (Ime) out, he would kill him and burn down the house. She said, “We thought it was just a mere threat. None of us could believe that Ime was capable of doing what he said. “Two days ago, we saw him bringing worn out tyres into the compound. We didn’t know he had a plan. “Yesterday (Sunday), before we left for church in the evening, he brought 20 litres of fuel, more ...