A vigilante, Maxwell Essi is currently cooling off his heels at the Nigeria Prison, Okere in Warri for allegedly stabbing to death a suspected armed robber in his own house in Warri, DAILY POST is reporting.
This was made known today when members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CHDR visited the Nigerian Prisons in Warri.
It was gathered that Maxwell Essi who had just returned from Idesoh Lane in Essi Layout where he works as a vigilante that very evening when the suspected armed robber and his gang stormed his resident at Essi Layout, commanded him to lie faced ground and dispossessed him of his mobile phone and began to search for other items. Unknown to the suspect, Maxwell had a dagger.
Maxwell calculated and smartly overpowered the suspected armed robber and stabbed him mercilessly to death. Since the incident happened four months ago in Warri, Maxwell has remained in custody.
DAILY POST gathered that the families of the deceased suspect quickly rushed to the police station and denied that their son was an armed robber, and pressed for the arrest and imprisonment of the killer vigilante.
But reacting to the development, the Delta State Chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, Comrade Prince-Kehinde Taiga stated that,” dead bodies don’t judge case and Maxwell can only get freedom if the Government pardons him. That can only happen if the family of the deceased suspect decides that they don’t want the case any longer, there after, CDHR can come in.”
[Daily Post]
