A 36 year old man Jonah Onwuchekwa was killed by an official of the Rivers State Sanitation Authority over a dispute revolving around N200.
Jonah was said to have gone to the dump site at Mgboshimini Community, Mile 4 axis of Port Harcourt when he was accosted by the government worker who started the quarrel that led to the young man’s death.
An eyewitness, Chijoke Nna, said “The late Jonah did not quarrel with anybody when he got to the waste dumping site, the only problem he had with the man was because he refused to pay the N200 the man demanded from him.
“The man demanded for N200 from Jonah before he could dump his waste but Jonah told him that he had already paid before he could realise it the man picked a bottle from the waste and stabbed him to death.”
The murderer then fled the scene.
Younger brother of the deceased, Lubechi Owuchekwa, said the police was requesting money to do the case but the family simply wanted the release of their dead kin so they could bury him in a befitting manner.
He said: “They have arrested the man who stabbed by brother to death and he is presently at the state Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) but one thing is that we don’t have money to do case, all we want now is how to bury our brother whose remains has been deposited at the mortuary .”