One Godwin Odah of Akparata village, Effium autonomous group in Ohaukwu native authorities space of Ebonyi State, was on Monday killed by suspected warlords.
Odah was killed, beheaded, and different components of his physique severed behind his compound in Akparata village.
The Guardian gathered that the killing got here barely one week after Governor Francis Nwifuru granted amnesty to 158 detainees arrested on the wake of the four-year-old intra-communal conflict that broke out in Effium in 2021.
Reacting to the incident when positioned on name, the Ebonyi State Police Spokesperson, ASP Joshua Ukandu, mentioned the command was not conscious of any assault or killing, however the President-Normal of Effium City Union, Dr. Agena James, confirmed the killing and mentioned he had notified Governor Francis Nwifuru of the incident.
“Your Excellency, Sir, I want to inform you that this morning at about 11:30 am, Ezza warriors killed Godwin Odah behind his compound at Akparata village in Effium.
“That is disheartening regardless of authorities efforts to revive peace in Effium. We strongly demand that the perpetrators of this dastardly act be arrested promptly to face justice.
“Ezza-Effium persons are truncating the peace course of once more. The murdered sufferer had his head, certainly one of his palms, and a leg severed in essentially the most barbaric method,” he mentioned.
It will be recalled that the discharge of the detainees was a part of the Ebonyi State authorities’s effort to revive peace in the neighborhood earlier than the killing of Godwin Odah by suspected Ezza warriors.
Governor Nwifuru additionally acknowledged in the course of the amnesty that each stakeholders of Effium and Ezza-Effium had signed an enterprise that there can be no relapse into conflict in Effium Group arising from the discharge of detainees.
