The Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Bala, has debunked the report that two people died in the course of the presidential and National Assembly elections held in the state on Saturday.
Bala, who addressed journalists at the state secretariat of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Umuahia on Sunday, described the deaths as the results of a misunderstanding between two brothers in Ndi Agwu community in Abam, Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State.
The CP said one of them, identified as Daniel Mgba, and suspected to be mentally unstable was disturbing the peace of his community that elections will not hold.
The family, the CP explained, met and asked his relation, Samuel Eze, to go and talk to his brother to stop his threat.
“The man (Daniel Mgba), deranged, strangled his brother (Samuel Eze) to death,” he said.
The CP explained that Mgba was arrested by the community and “we told them not to harm him.
“But before we arrived, he was lynched by a mob and his house set ablaze and unfortunately, the community lost two brothers.”
He said under community partnership, “we decided to engage the two families for peace.”
He added, “Abia is God’s own state and we committed ourselves into the hands of God.
“Through prayer and fasting, we pleaded with God to grant Abia State peace.
“We thank God and all others for their commitment to peace. We were able to achieve this with other sister security agencies”.