Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo on Saturday condemned the killing of a lawmaker, Okechukwu Okoye and his aide in the state.
The victims, the lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 2 in the Anambra State House of Assembly and his campaign director, Cyril Chiegboka, were abducted in Aguata on Sunday.
Six days after the kidnap, the lawmaker’s head was dumped at Chisco park in Amichi, a community in Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state and his body was also found in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
Tochukwu Ikenga, the spokesperson of the police in the State, who confirmed this in a statement said his corpse had been recovered and deposited in the mortuary.
Although the fate of the lawmaker’s aide was unknown earlier, Mr Soludo said the gunmen also killed the aide.
The governor, in a statement by his spokesperson, Christian Aburime, expressed “shock and deep sadness” over the killing of the victims describing it as “heartless and barbaric.”
“Governor Soludo condoles with his kinsmen of Isuofia, noting that it is probably the same criminal gang that attacked him and killed three policemen at Isuofia, two years ago, that are once again on the prowl. But they can never cow down Isuofia and Anambra State,” the spokesperson wrote.
He said the governor has “consequently placed a N10 million reward for anyone or group that will avail valuable information that will lead to the immediate arrest of the perpetrators of this dastardly act.”
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Mr Soludo also vowed that those who carried out the act and other criminals operating in the state would be “decisively” brought to book.
“Anambra will soon be a hell for these criminals,” he said.
The governor reiterated his administration’s resolve and renewed determination with the security agencies to track down the criminals in the state so as to face the full weight of the law.
He assured residents of the state that “Anambra will win against the forces of darkness,” just as he urged them to brace up for a fight against the criminals in the state.
