Nigeria: Gunmen Pretending to Be Land Investors Abolish Three Individuals in South-East

The latest assault passed off barely a week after gunmen attacked the Headquarters of Ogbaru Local Authorities House of Anambra Notify.

Gunmen possess murdered three individuals after luring them to a say in Anambra Notify ostensibly to purchase a parcel of land.

The incident came about at about 2 p.m. on Monday at Isionye, a suburb of Enugwu-Ukwu Crew in Njikoka Local Authorities House of the say.

The status is a boundary between Enugwu-Ukwu and Nawfia, one other neighborhood in the council status.

The police spokesperson in Anambra Notify, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in an announcement forwarded to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday evening.

Mr Ikenga, a superintendent of police, talked about as adverse to the slain victims, 5 others were “seriously” injured in the assault.

“Preliminary information reveals that the victims were lured by some individuals through a phone call to the land in the guise of a land transaction and attacked them with guns and machetes,” he talked about.

The spokesperson talked about the Commissioner of Police in the say, Nnaghe Obono, has ordered an investigation into the assault and execute of the victims.

Mr Ikenga talked about the police chief additionally appealed for calm in the status.

He talked about police operatives possess recovered an deserted Sienna car utilized by the attackers.

“Also, the testimonies of the injured victims who are currently receiving treatment in the hospital are aiding the investigation while the bodies of the deceased have been deposited in a morgue,” the police spokesperson talked about.

Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES stories that youths in the Enugwu-Ukwu had been accusing some neighborhood leaders of engaging in unauthorised sale of lands in the status.

In 2020, for instance, a pair of of the youths protested the alleged unauthorised sale of some parcels of land in the Isionye House of the neighborhood.

Worsening insecurity

Like other states in Nigeria’s South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra Notify with frequent assaults by armed individuals.

The assaults on the total target security companies, authorities officers and companies.

The latest assault passed off barely a week after gunmen attacked the Headquarters of Ogbaru Local Authorities House of the say.

The Nigerian authorities has accused Indigenous Of us of Biafra (IPOB) of being liable for the deadly assaults in the location. Nonetheless the personnel has again and again denied their involvement in the assaults.

IPOB is a personnel leading agitation for an independent say of Biafra which it wants carved out from the South-east and a few sides of the South-south Nigeria.