"The man sent us to Abakaliki Prison 10 years ago. After we were released from prison, we came to retaliate. When we got to his house, we thought he was the person we saw sleeping on the bed in his room. We didn’t know it was his son before we shot him. It was a member of my gang who later said it was not Okorie Orie that we killed, that it was his son; we just had to escape from the scene. Later the man we wanted to kill identified us again to the police,” the gang leader, Okereke told the police.
This was the chilling account of an unrepentant gang of robbers who reportedly sought revenge on a man, Okorie Orie, who, according to them, sent them to jail ten years ago.
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