Four days after five persons, including a couple, were gruesomely killed by gunmen in Ajana Umuna, Ezinachi, in Okigwe Local Council Area of Imo State, Governor Hope Uzodimma, yesterday, commiserated with the families of the victims, describing the incident as “unconscionable and barbaric”.
The Imo State Government, in synergy with the army, police and other security operatives in the state, has, however, deployed security personnel to the affected community to restore law and order and arrest perpetrators without delay.
This was disclosed yesterday in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Declan Emelumba.
A similar scenario had played out in Ideato, Imo State, some weeks ago, where scores of persons were killed in their homes in the wee hours and their bodies dragged out on their front floors by their yet-to-be identified assailants.
Emelumba disclosed that the information available to the government indicated that non-state actors swooped on local vigilante personnel, killing one and four relatives of the head of the vigilante group in that community, including a couple.
The attackers, the statement informed, set the victims’ homes and motorcycles ablaze.