Gulak’s Murder: Confusion As Imo Gov Vows To Find Killers ‘Killed’ By Police

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has vowed that security agencies will fish out those behind the murder of northern politician, Ahmed Gulak, in the south-eastern state on Sunday.

This is despite a claim by the police that they had “neutralised” Gulak’s killers and recovered arms, ammunitions and vehicles allegedly used to carry out the murder.

THE WHISTLER recalls that the Imo State Police Command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, had claimed in a statement that “having established the identity of the assailants and the description of the vehicles used in carrying out the attack,” the police trailed and killed the suspects while fleeing to Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area of the state.

Elkana also claimed that “The six hoodlums who carried out the killing and four other members of their gang were fatally injured,” adding that their bodies were identified by the driver that drove late Gulak.

But Governor Uzudinma, who spoke after meeting heads of security agencies in the state capital on Monday, suggested that Gulak’s killers were still at large and may not have been killed as claimed by the police.

The governor said he believed that the murder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain was politically motivated.

This, he said, was because Gulak’s killers trailed and murdered him without taking anything from him.

The former presidential aide was reportedly shot dead after leaving his Rockview Hotel lodging in a taxi headed for the Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri.

Uzodinma said, “I was shocked to my marrows when the sad news of his callous murder was broken to me. I was getting ready to go to church when the sad news came and I could not attend the service again. It was simply one of the most devastating news I have had in my life and I am yet to recover from the shock,” he said.

“Alhaji Ahmed Gulak was in Imo State for a national assignment. He came to Owerri with the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendment. Being a humble man, he chose to travel incognito according to his friend who was with him.

“Someone must have trailed him from the hotel to the airport. That is exactly why his gruesome murder appears to be a clear case of political assassination.

“According to reports by the police, he was shot in cold blood and the assailants did not remove a pin from him. It is most benumbing that people chose to waste such innocent blood in such a dastardly and cowardly manner.

“Let me make it very clear that everything will be done by security agencies to find those who murdered Gulak and their sponsors. They will not by the grace of God escape their deserved punishment.

“This is not in our character as Ibos, not in our tradition nor in our culture. We must condemn this callous act.”