Beheaded Anambra Lawmaker: Gunmen Issues 48-hours ultimatum over soldiers in S’East *Send letter…
The dreaded unknown gunmen have allegedly issued a forty-eight hours ultimatum to politicians to immediately withdraw soldiers from the South-East region of the country.
This said ultimatum was contained in a letter carefully tucked beside the beheaded head of the murdered lawmaker.
The yet to be unmasked gunmen who are suspected to the the brains behind the gruesome killing of the lawmaker representing the Aguata II Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye.
Famous Reporters had reported that the former Legislator’s head alongside his Aide’s were spotted on Saturday, at Nnobi in Idemili South local government area of the Anambra.
Okoye, who was abducted alongside his aide, Cyril Chiegboka, by yet to be identified assailants on May 15, 2022, was later beheaded by the kidnappers and his head, with his aide’s, found on a road at Amichi, on Saturday, with a written note beside it.
Although some of the words have been washed off by the rain that fell on that day, a closer look showed the ultimatum.
The gruesome murder of the lawmaker and his aide has elicited utter fear and reactions from both stakeholders in the state and other well-meaning Nigerians.
However, the state Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, while calling for better volunteering of information from the various communities to unravel the gunmen, dismissed the threat, saying that they were not “unknown” but “known”.
Continuing, the CP said: “There is nothing unknown about the gunmen terrorizing Anambra State, to warrant calling then ‘unknown gunmen’.
“We have been saying that unknown gunmen is not the right name for these criminals. We are trying to mystify something that is not just there.
“It is time we go into demystifying them. These people are not spirits, they live with us, they are our nephews, our cousins, our brothers, and they live in communities. We know who they are.
“It is time we go into demystifying them. These people are not spirits, they live with us, they are our nephews, our cousins, our brothers, and they live in communities. We know who they are.
“The problem of security is that of total silence as nobody sees something, nobody hears something and nobody says something.
