Controversial activist lawyer Kenechukwu Okeke is dead.
Okeke caught the public eye after dragging 50 Nigerian celebrities to court for, according to him, promoting violence against the Muhammadu Buhari government.
DayStar church founder Pastor Sam Adeyemi and singer Davido were among the many public figures Okeke sued for supporting EndSARS anti-police-brutality protests. The late lawyer said the celebrities should be held responsible for the violence that followed the demonstrations, but protesters lay the fault at the feet of state-sponsored thugs.
Okeke was killed in Nkpor, near Onitsha, Anambra State, in the presence of his wife, Mrs Blessing Odinakachi Okeke and his little daughter.
Okeke’s wife who made the allegations disclosed to journalists said: “Kenechukwu Okeke was killed by his tenant.
“The tenant, Chiadiobi, was living in our house, but when he packed out without our knowledge and asked to be given two months of his rent that he left, we told him he should have notified us that he was packing out”, the wife told our reporter.
“My husband was not around the day he came but I told him he packed out of the house without our knowledge and should not be given back any money.
“He threatened to deal with us, saying he will teach my husband a lesson. I called my husband and told him what the boy said and that he should not come to confront him, since they say he is a bad boy.
“My husband later reported the matter to the DSS and to the police, and he was made to write an undertaking, but he was still coming to terrorize us. Sometimes he will come to our house and break open the gate and come in and pick whatever he wants to pick.
“One day, he came to our house and my husband confronted him, without knowing that he had many boys with him downstairs, and before my husband could do anything, they macheted him, and the fuel we wanted to pour into our gen, they poured it on him and lit him up, and that was how my husband died.”
