The insecurity in the south east Nigerian especially in Imo has long gotten to the alarming stage and is graduating into a battle stage where everyone fights to live.
There was massive outrage following the cold-blooded killing of guests returning from a traditional wedding ceremony in the state. No fewer than seven young men were shot and killed by persons suspected to be operatives of the Imo Vigilante group known as the Ebubeagu Security outfit without provocation.
The gruesome episode, which happened Sunday night in Awomamma in Orlu West, witnessed the killing of youths of Otulu community in neighbouring Orlu East LGA who had accompanied their kinsman to his traditional wedding in Awomama, with five other young men still missing.
The President General of Otulu Community, Nnamdi Agbor told TheSlides correspondent that seven young men were killed Sunday night by the Ebubeagu operatives.
His words: “Youths from our community in Otulu had on Sunday accompanied one of our brothers to Awomamma for his traditional wedding rites, at the end of the event, many of the youths who came on motorcycles offered to carry their brothers and they all rode back in a convoy of motorcycles.
“On their way home, around the Ishieke area of Awomamma, without any conversation or confrontation, the Ebubeagu operatives opened fire on the convoy of motorcycles killing seven persons on the spot. While they abducted some of the wedding guests while others escaped into the bush in a desperate flight for safety.”
The president called on the Imo state government to investigate the matter for justice to be served.
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