It was a black Friday for the people of the ancient town of Arigidi Akoko in Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State where a middle aged man, Prince Akeem Olanipekun was allegedly beaten to death with a charmed ring during a fight at Imo quarters of the town.

According to an eyewitness accounts, the late Akeem who hails from the ruling Olanipekun’s family of Ayase quarters of Arigidi is a commercial driver. He was said to have accompanied his friend who owns a rental service outfit to erect canopy on Friday at Imo quarters of the town for a social party when the fight started.

Kakaki Newspot gathered that the deseased, Akeem Olanipekun was approached by some miscreants popularly known as “area boys” for the payment of ‘land money’ known as “owo-Ile” before the canopies could be erected.

This however, was said to have led to hot argument between the deceased and the boys who went home and brought the charm to beat him for the non-payment of “Owo Ile” which allegedly resulted in his death.

As a result of this, tension rented the atmosphere of the whole of Arigidi Akoko for the fear of possible reprisal attack from the family of the late Prince who hailed from a royal family with two wives and children.

When Kakaki Newspot visited Imo Arigidi, the house of the principal suspect has been deserted as the deceased body was placed in front of the building.

Meanwhile men of the Nigerian Police Force from Okeagbe Akoko led by the DPO, SP Adetanranmi Ibitayo have been deployed to forestall further conflict while the alleged perpetrators were said to be at large.

The Area Commander of the Force for Ikare Akoko command, ACP Razak Rauf confirmed the incident and promised to arrest all the perpetrators of involved in the criminal act.

However, it was learnt that the corpse was later taken to the mortuary of State Specialist Hospital, Ikare Akoko for further investigations.

As at the time of filling this report, the Zaki of Arigidi-Akoko could not be reached for comments as calls put through to him were not picked, while people close to him said he was very sad over the incident.