Anambra: Blood Flows As President-General of Obosi Town Union, Hon. Okolo, Four Others, Are Shot Dead

By Charles Igbo

It was a bloody day in Anambra State on Monday, January 2, 2023.

At about 8pm, the President General of the Obosi Town Union, Honourable  Ike Okolo,  was shot dead by gunmen.

Okolo was killed at a Petrol Station in the Community where he, apparently, stopped to fill his SUV with Petrol.

In a heart-shattering video making the rounds, a gruesomely shot Okolo, sat in a pool of his own blood, behind the steering wheel of his car.

Obviously, his assailants did not give him the chance to say a word, or come down from his car.

In another development same day, gunmen stormed a compound identified as Obi Maduka’s compound, Nodu Okpuno, Awka South, and killed four people.

The victims include Kenechukwu Okeke, the PDP Chairman in the area. Others were: Onyiebo Okoye, Jude Ebenezer and Obinna Maduka.

Unconfirmed report said the gunmen were after a man who ran into the compound. When they did not see him, they shot and killed the four men, all whom sat, and were entertaining themselves.

The Anambra State Police Command has yet to issue a statement on the killings.

Obosi, in the Idemili Local Government Area is home to Chief Emeka Anyaoku, elder statesman and former Commonwealth General Secretary. It is also home to Osita Chidoka, former Corp Marshall of the Federal Road Safety and former Aviation Minister under President Goodluck Jonathan.