Killing of 5 brothers: Mad man’s illness hereditary —Step brother

THERE are indications that the mad man who killed his five brothers at Tse Alaigu in Naka, headquarters of Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State might have inherited the mental illness from his maternal family.
According to the submission by his step brother, Daniel Gyado, a health worker at the council area, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune at the village on Wednesday, the mad man, while in secondary school in 2003, exhibited mental illness, though he was treated at the psychiatric unit of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Makurdi.
Gyado explained that the mother and his maternal aunt had, at different times, suffered madness, while his elder sister is currently being treated for the same illness at an undisclosed place.
He explained that the mad man, until that fateful Sunday, had not displayed any strange behaviour and expressed shock at the development, which led to the death of five brothers.
His wife of two years, Phenomena, was short of words and expressed shock at the strange behaviour of her husband that fateful Sunday.
According to her, “I was in my family place to plait my hair when I was called that my husband had stabbed five people to death.”
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