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Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Monday commiserated with the families of victims including a couple who were gruesomely murdered in Ajana Umuna, Ezinachi, in Okigwe Local Council Area of Imo State,
Uzodimma who described the incident as “unconscionable and barbaric”. assured that the government is doing everything to unmask and apprehend those responsible for the carnage.
Meanwhile , the Imo State Government, in synergy with the army, police and other security operatives in the state, has deployed security personnel to the affected community to restore law and order and arrest perpetrators without delay.
The Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, disclosed this on Monday in a statement made available to newsmen.
Recall that a similar scenario had played out in Ideato, Imo State, some weeks ago, where scores of persons were killed in their homes in the wee hours and their bodies dragged out on their front floors by their yet-to-be identified assailants.
Emelumba disclosed that information available to the government indicated that non-state actors swooped on local vigilante personnel, killing one and four relatives of the head of the vigilante group in that community, including a couple.
He added that the attackers, set the victims’ homes and motorcycles ablaze.
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