Father of 6 hacked to death, 3 escape in Anambra leadership tussle
A vigilance operative attached to Okpoko community in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State was on Tuesday allegedly hacked to death by a group of rampaging youths in the area. Emmanuel Nwankwo, father of six and native of Ebonyi state, was said to have met his sudden death following his resistance to taking over of […]
A vigilance operative attached to Okpoko community in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State was on Tuesday allegedly hacked to death by a group of rampaging youths in the area.
Emmanuel Nwankwo, father of six and native of Ebonyi state, was said to have met his sudden death following his resistance to taking over of mantle of leadership of Okpoko community by Chief Edwin Emesinwa as President-General of the community, from Linus Ezenwanma, the care-taker committee chairman.
An Onitsha High Court, presided over by Justice Chudi Nwanwko had in its recent judgement in a civil suit filed by Emesinwa asking the court to return him back to seat to complete him tenure as the P-G of Okpoko town union.
The court which granted Emesinwa’s prayers, asked him to take over the mantle of leadership from Hon. Ezenwanma who the state government appointed the care-taker committee of the town union many years ago.
Armed with the court judgement in his favour, Emesinwa and his executive used the court bailiff and some policemen to eject Ezenwanma and his care-taker members out of office and then took over the mantle of leadership of the community.
Daily Trust gathered that less than 48 hours after Emesinwa and his supporters assumed office at the union’s secretariat, the group of armed men suspected to be Ezenwanma loyalists laid ambush at the secretariat at about 9 p,m.
The source said the vigilance operative was hacked to death in what appeared to be a resistant onslaught against the Emesinwa group, while three of his colleagues who drove with him to the secretariat, managed to escape death by whiskers.
Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police Officer, at Okpoko, Gabriel Elaigwu, told newsmen that Nwankwo’s corpse had been deposited at the nearby hospital mortuary, while he had sent a signal to the state CID, for thorough investigations on the matter.