* Flees community
Gloom has descended on Fugar, community in the northern part of Edo State
The community is in shock, in tears, in disbelief. A father who built a political name from the ground, up is gone — not from illness, not from old age, but allegedly from the hands of his own son.
Julius Bello — De Lord Ogata — Ward 3 Chairman of the APC in Etsako Central, a grassroots mobiliser, a known face, a father — has been killed in his own home.
The Edo State Police Command has confirmed it. The killer? His son, Irobudo.
Police spokesman, Eno Ikoedem, said the suspect is on the run. Investigation has commenced. But nothing will bring the old man back.
Witnesses paint a chilling picture.
Irobudo had just returned from Lagos at the weekend. Quiet. Brooding. Then on Sunday, hell broke loose. He picked up a sledgehammer — and brought it down on his father’s head. Again and again. Until the man who gave him life lay lifeless in a pool of his own blood.
Family sources whisper the motive that has left everyone shaken.
Some prophets, they claim, told Irobudo that his father was the reason for his poverty; that his father tied his destiny; that his father must go.
He believed them.
And now, a father is dead. A son is a fugitive. A family is shattered.
A community that once hailed De Lord Ogata now mourns him — not just for how he died, but for who allegedly killed him.
- Media Report