Breaking: Gunmen behead lawmaker representing Soludo’s community

A report by Premium Times indicates that gunmen have beheaded the lawmaker representing Governor Charles Soludo’s community in Anambra House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye.

Telescope.ng gathered that Okoye, who represents Aguata 2 constituency in Anambra state, was abducted alongside his aide, Cyril Chiegboka, on Sunday, May 15, along Aguluzigbo road, Anaocha local government area of the state.

His head was said to have been dumped at Chisco park in Amichi, a community in the Nnewi South local government area of the state on Saturday, May 21, six days after he was abducted.

The police spokesperson in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed this in a statement Saturday night.

He said the lawmaker’s headless body was later found along Ideani road, Nnobi community, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.

Ikenga said: “(With) further information and confirmation, (we) identified the corpse as (that of) Hon Okechukwu Okoye.”

He was, however, silent on the fate of the lawmaker’s aide, Cyril Chiegboka.

But there are indications the aide may have also been killed.

The police spokesperson said the commissioner of police in the state, Echeng Echeng, described the lawmaker’s murder as a “barbaric and act of cowardice.”

Echeng also commiserated with the family and friends of the lawmaker and assured that the police will track down the killers.

A video clip that captured the head dumped at the park has gone viral on various social media.

In the clip, seen by the online medium, two warning notes, believed to have been written by the gunmen, were dropped on the road.

“We give the politicians 48 hours to withdraw all the soldiers in Biafraland or face our wrath or the consequences,” the gunmen said in one of the notes.

In the second note, which was blurred, the gunmen appeared to be threatening politicians by “colluding” with law enforcement officers.

The second note said: “We will attack you one by one because soldiers and police (officers) are no longer our problems.”

The abducted lawmaker, a representative of Soludo, hails from Isuofia in Aguata Local Government Area, where the governor also comes from.