By our correspondent
Wonders shall never end as a passenger (name withheld) poured petrol on Keke Napep used to convey him in his father’s compound.
According to available reports, problem started when the passenger, a middle aged man the keke driver dropped in his father’s house in a popular town in Anambra state paid the Keke man N200.
Our source said that the Keke man rejected the money and claimed that it was N250 that he told his passenger to pay.
This online medium gathered that at the heat of argument, the middle aged man who threatened to burn his Keke if he refused to collect the N200 ran inside his house, brought a three litre gallon of petrol and poured it on the Keke Napep.
An eye witness told Emerald News that while he was bringing out matches from his trouser’s pocket, people at the scene tried to stop him but could not as he lit the matches on the already fuelled Keke Napep and it was covered with flames.
Emerald News gathered that the owner of the Keke Napep, who could not believe his eyes, allegedly fainted.
According to our source, the scene was filled with people who rained curses on the middle aged man for burning the Keke Napep over a mere change argument.
After gaining consciousness, he cried bitterly saying the keke was the only thing he has after his wife left him with their kids
Emerald News gathered that sympathizers rushed the Keke man to the nearby hospital where he gave up after three days.
Our source said that the aged father of the middle aged man that burnt the Keke became heart broken and cursed him endlessly.
An eye witness said that the man that burnt the Keke just discovered the home town of his father and traced him from a Yoruba land where his Igbo father impregnated his Yoruba mother long time ago.
Emerald News gathered that since the man that burnt the Keke traced his father to Anambra State, his aged father has been receiving shocking complaint about him which made him to regret ever impregnating his mother
