Imo: Gunmen Kill Three

By Charles Igbo

Friday, November 5, 2021, in Imo State, ended on a tragic note.

At about 7.30 pm, gunmen in a vehicle arrived at a popular junction at Umuologho, Obowo, and pointedly shot at passers-by.

By the time the shooting ended, three people lay dead in the pool of their own blood. Obowo is the Local Government Area of the late popular Governor of old Imo State, Chief Sam Mbakwe.

Eye witnesses say the gunmen drove off immediately, and headed towards Umuahia, Abia State.

Nobody was able to get their car number, how many they were, or anything, as everybody ran helter-skelter streaming.

The one week sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, across the South-east, ought to have started on same Friday, November 5, 2021, but IPOB cancelled the idea in the evening of Thursday, November 4.

However reports from across the States tell stories of caution. Not many people were out on the streets, and most schools and business premises were closed. Commercial activities were skeletal.

The IPOB order was thought to have been targeted at the Anambra Governorship election scheduled for Saturday, November 6, 2021, but IPOB, on calling its order off, encouraged Anambra people to go ahead, troop out, and vote.

At the time of writing this, the Imo State Police Command was yet to confirm the story of the killings.

The South-east, for months, has been dealing with worsening insecurity, with gunmen killing people left, right and centre, thus reducing the once most peaceful Zone to one of the most dangerous Zones in Nigeria.