A retired President of the Benue State Customary Court of Appeal, Mrs Margaret Igbeta, has been allegedly murdered in her home located at Wantor Kwange Street in Makurdi metropolis of the state.
Igbeta, 72, was found lifeless in a pool of blood Thursday night.
It was gathered on Friday morning that the judge’s corpse was discovered after she was murdered by yet-to-be identified gunmen who spilled her blood all over her house.
A source confirmed that the police were working to unravel the killers of the judge even as her family members were already giving useful information to effect an arrest.
Igbeta rose through the ladder from being a Pupil State Counsel in the Benue State Ministry of Justice in 1976 to becoming a judge in 1995. She was President of the Benue State Customary Court of Appeal in 2003 until her retirement on October 17, 2015 upon attainment of the statutory age of 65 years.
However, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Catherine Anene, when contacted replied in a text message, “Let me get to town and understand what happened.”
The late Justice Igbeta was born on October 17, 1950 and hailed from Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State.
