The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has condemned the killing of three members of the Anambra State Vigilante Group, who were on official duty at Nkwo, Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area of the state.
In a statement made available to journalists in Awka on Friday, Soludo’s Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, gave the names of the victims as Okeke Emeka, Nnayelu Orizu, and Chukwuma Ubaego.
The victims were killed when some yet-to-be-identified assailants opened fire on them on Wednesday.
While condemning the dastardly killings, Soludo reiterated that those responsible for the killing of the three vigilante operatives will be fished out.
The governor also reassured that the government was on the trail of those who attacked Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy, where some of his orderlies and security details were killed and would soon be brought to face the full wrath of the law.
He, therefore, commiserated with the families of the deceased and Igboukwu Community, assuring that the death of the vigilante operatives will not be in vain.
“This particular act of killing is inhuman and totally unacceptable. The perpetrators will surely not go scot-free as we are fully determined to fish them out to pay dearly for their crimes,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, policemen attached to the Nteje Police Division have arrested about 15 suspected vandals, who were of the habit of vandalising street light electric cables at the Umueri Cargo Airport, Anambra State.
The vandalised electric cables power the streetlights and they are mounted at various locations at the airport.
A police source within Nteje Police Division said that the suspects were arrested last week when they stormed the locality in three tricycles and had positioned themselves to carry out their illicit operation.
However, luck ran out on them when policemen who had mounted surveillance within the airport axis, after suspecting unusual movement of tricycles along the airport road at 10:30pm, succeeded in apprehending the suspects.
The suspects, it was gathered, had already loaded the stolen cables into the waiting tricycles.
When contacted, the Anambra State Police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident, adding that investigation into the matter was still ongoing.
