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Police confirm killing of Ebubeagu commander’s wife, burning of house in Ebonyi

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‘A report filed in by CSP Ayodele Umujose, the Divisional Police Officer,  Afikpo-South Division, Ebonyi State, has it that the Ama-Etiti Amaoso Edda Youth Leader, Nnachi Mba, reported that, at about 0230hrs of 01/01/2023, the house of the Afikpo-South Ebubeagu Commander, Oyeku Kalu Chima, located at Owutu Edda, was attacked and set ablaze while his wife Urenwa Kalu Chima was shot dead’

 

By Nweze Anaga, Abakaliki

 

 

The Ebonyi State Police command has confirmed the killing of Ebubeagu commander’s wife and burning of their house at Owutu Edda in Afikpo South Local Government Area of the state in the early hours of January 1, 2023.

The Police Public Relations officer, SP Chris Anyanwu, said that the incident occurred around 0230 hrs when a the youth leader of Ama-Etiti Amaoso Edda, Nnachi Mba, reported to CSP Ayodele Umujose, the Divisional Police Officer of Afikpo South Division, that the house of Afikpo South Ebubeagu Commander, Mr Oyeku Kalu Chima, has been burnt down while his wife, Mrs Urenwa Kalu Chima, was shot dead by the attackers.

Anyanwu said that the identity of the perpetrators has not been established as investigation was ongoing to unravel those behind the incident.

 

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“A report filed in by CSP Ayodele Umujose, the Divisional Police Officer,  Afikpo-South Division, Ebonyi State, has it that the Ama-Etiti Amaoso Edda Youth Leader, Nnachi Mba, reported that, at about 0230hrs of 01/01/2023, the house of the Afikpo-South Ebubeagu Commander, Oyeku Kalu Chima, located at Owutu Edda, was attacked and set ablaze while his wife Urenwa Kalu Chima was shot dead.

“It has not been established meantime, who perpetrated the dastardly act. However, the said Ebubeagu Commander alleged that it was one Okporie Ashango and his cohorts that did it.”

The Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Police Command, CP Aliyu Garba psc (+), has directed that immediate investigation be activated by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge the State Criminal Investigation/Intelligence Department (SCIID) to unravel those behind the crimes.

Further to that, detectives of the SCIID and operatives of the Command’s Tactical Teams have taken over proceedings in the area as the CP orders that the perpetrators must be fished out and brought to book.

Recall that last week, no fewer than three persons including a police officer were killed in the same axis because of alleged political tussle between the State Chairman of APC, Hon. Stanley Okoroemegha, and the former council chairman, Eni Uduma Chima.

 

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