Nigeria, Aug. 4 -- They killed Fish Magnet, but what they're really killing is hope. The South East is bleeding brains - even the law couldn't protect Peter Obi's property.

It started like any ordinary morning in Onitsha. The sun rose lazily, the streets buzzed with traders, and the scent of dried stockfish blended with exhaust fumes on the ever-chaotic Port Harcourt Road. But somewhere behind the scenes, in the alleys ruled not by commerce but by silence and shadows, something was already dead-hope.

They called him Fish Magnet-young, smart, and full of fire. He wasn't your regular hustler. He built an empire from fish farming, turned mud ponds into gold mines, and inspired a generation of Igbo youth to believe again in the dignity of b...