Nigerian's death: Assailants are locals, complaint states TNN | Nov 1, 2013, 01.42 AM IST
MAPUSA: The complaint filed by deceased Obada Uzoma Simeon's friend Obinna Paul Obi, states that three of them, including Uwalaka Franklin, were at a restaurant in Parra on Wednesday night, when around 9.30pm some locals started a quarrel with them. Leaving the restaurant on scooters they headed to their rented room at Brittowadda, when at Lobowaddo they were waylaid by some people in a car and on two-wheelers. They were assaulted with choppers and iron rods. Franklin and Obado lost control of their scooters and fell into bushes as they tried to run away. Later, while Obada's scooter was found, his body was found only in the morning with stab inquiries. Obinna has stated that the assailants are locals and have had conflicts with him and his friends in the past. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Nigerians-death-Assailants-are-locals-complaint-states/articleshow/25013745.cms * * * Obodo Uzoma Simeon's murder: Fallout of an old Anjuna rivalry? TNN | Nov 1, 2013, 01.52 AM IST ANJUNA: The murder of Obodo Uzoma Simeon and the ensuing rioting by Nigerians appear to be the crescendo of clashes between the foreigners and locals, in Anjuna, since last year. Tensions started in the coastal village around mid-2012 when a youngster from Caisua died of an alleged drug overdose. Locals believe it was Nigerians who peddled the lad the narcotics substance and clashes soon began between residents and the foreigners. By November 2012, the animosity had touched a raw nerve, this time of the Nigerians, after a countryman, 28-year-old Umach was beaten up. He supposedly had nothing to do with the drug-peddling often linked to Nigerians. Almost a year later, an incident in Chapora is believed to have been the trigger for Simeon's murder. Around 5pm on Wednesday (October 30), Ramchandra Dabolkar from Chapora filed a complaint at the Anjuna police station that while he was at the Chapora market two Nigerians blocked him with their scooter and showed him a packet containing something white, allegedly a narcotic substance. Dabolkar told the Nigerians that he would approach the police and proceeded towards the Anjuna police station, states his complaint, but the Nigerians allegedly blocked him at the station's main gate and assaulted him with fisticuffs. Both Nigerians were arrested. By 9.30pm, the clash between Nigerians and locals had broken out in Parra. Speaking to TOI on condition of anonymity, some locals in Anjuna said the animosity with Nigerians is largely over two reasons: they are annoyed with Nigerians who allegedly start fights for no reason or accost anyone they find walking alone at night, and two, drug-pushing in other peddlers' territories. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Obodo-Uzoma-Simeons-murder-Fallout-of-an-old-Anjuna-rivalry/articleshow/25013991.cms