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Hoodlums Behead Persons In Imo, Rivers

Hoodlums Behead Persons In Imo, Rivers

Hoodlums have beheaded an unidentified person and displayed his head at Orie Okporo market Community in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State.

It was gathered that the ugly development happened early hours of Thursday.

This has brought the number of beheading incidents in Okopro Community to three, starting from Tuesday this week.

According to Vanguard, the beheading of residents is linked to the activities to criminal elements, diabolical gangs operating freely in the area, especially at night.

A source from the Okporo community said: “The head of this person was taken to the Orie Okporo market and dumped there. Just this morning we got the news and went to Okporo market where we saw the head of the person. we were shocked, asking ‘what does this group of persons want to achieve?’

“You will remember Okporo market is where the heads of the two other persons killed on Tuesday were dropped and we don’t know what next again. We beg them to stop this kind of killing. Orlu is known for peace,” he said.

When contacted on the beheading of people, the Imo State Police Public Relations Officers, PPRO, Mike Abatam said: “We have heard of it and we are gathering the necessary information after which we will make an official statement.”

In a piece of related news, the leader of a vigilante group, the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Alex Umezuruike, was beheaded and his body mutilated.

The killing, this newspaper gathered, has caused panic in the area as residents were said to be fleeing the communities over fear of further attacks.

It was learnt that the cultists invaded Umezurike’s home and shot him several times before chasing him into a nearby bush after bullets could not penetrate his body.

The killers later captured and killed the local vigilante leader with a knife before cutting his head from the body.

An anonymous source said that after killing and beheading Umezuruike, the killers brought back his body to the compound where it was cut in parts and his head paraded round the community.

The source said, “Some cult boys came into our community last night. They killed the commander of OSPAC in the community.

“They came to his house shot him severally but it did not enter. He later ran into the bush. They went after him. They caught and killed him. The killing was horrible.

“The returned his body to their compound and cut it pieces. They cut his head and carried it round the community before leaving.”

The killing comes barely three weeks after the Chairman of Emohua Local Government Council, Dr Chidi Lylod pronounced the proscription of all vigilante groups in the council and asked communities that make up the Council area to submit five names of natives who will be screened and recruited into a new security outfit to be established and funded by the council in no distant time.

The spokesman of the Rivers State police command, Nnamdi Omoni, said the dismembered body of the victim has been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.

Omoni said the Police have also restored normalcy in the community while the Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday has ordered full-scale investigation into the incident.

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