Mr. Nicholas Adetsav and his three children have been finally laid to rest. They were buried amid tears on Monday, November 19th at their hometown in Gwer-East local government of Benue state.
It was gathered that the villagers refused the wife, Rachel to be buried along with the rest of the family after it was alleged that she killed her husband, three children before finally killing herself.
According to reports, late Nicholas Adetsav and his children were taken to Tse-Adetsav, Mbavur, Mbahimin, Gbemacha Ward Gwer-East Local Government for final burial where the husband’s family and other villages rejected her corpse which they labelled an abomination.
Four corpses were buried in the family compound instead of five.
The wife was initially omitted from the previous obituary as the rest of the family members were scheduled to be buried on Friday, November 16th before she was included in the updated poster.
The deceased identified as Mr. Nicholas Adetsav Alanga was found dead with his wife Rachael and the children named Ngwuavese , Senater and Joshua at their home in Vandeikya street, Makurdi, Benue state on November 2.
The man who was a administrative staff of the local government service commission, was said to have been killed by his wife after an undisclosed disagreement. The wife also worked at the Makurdi Local Government Council, according to reports.
The attack began following a disagreement and the wife, who neighbours say has been known to be violent, went on a rampage. She damaged her husband’s car then killed her entire family before taking her life.
