Renewed Killings In Anambra Keep Enugu Residents Indoors

Some residents of Enugu and its environs are reluctant to go to their places of businesses on Monday following the renewed killings and terrorist attacks in Anambra State.

Those interviewed say the suspended sit-at-home order in Southeast states by the Indigenous People of Biafra have taken a new dimension as the activities of unknown gunmen have recently escalated.

James Ugada works for a ministry in the state. He said, “The killing of Dr Chike Akunyili, husband of the late NAFDAC DG, has created fear in many of us. He is not a politician. This implies that the unknown gunmen engage in killing to satisfy their blood thirst.

“Just some days ago, another medical doctor was killed. Southeast has become something else.”

An elder statesman, Cajetan Ozioko, said, “I have a shop at Coal Camp, but I won’t open today. Although the sit-at-home order has been cancelled, nobody now knows who to blame over the insecurity in Southeast. IPOB blames unknown persons. The celebrated southeast security network, Ebubeagu, has died.

“The government has failed us because it can’t secure us. We live in fear. It is no more a Monday matter, but every day.”

THE WHISTLER reports that unknown gunmen yesterday burnt the Nnewi country home of Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress. They also attacked the offices of the Directorate of the State Security and the Federal Road Safety Corps in all Nnewi.

Our correspondent gathered that the attacks on the two federal agencies were because they hoisted the national flag in their premises. IPOB had ordered the removal of national flags at every location in the southeast ahead of the nation’s independence celebrated on October 1.

Recall that Dr Akunyili was killed last Tuesday after receiving a posthumous award on behalf of his late wife, Dora Akunyili. Dr Lawrence Ezenwa, a medical doctor and chieftain of the APC, was also killed two days ago in Nnewi.

He was said to have visited his in-laws at Ukpo when he was killed alongside his driver. He was the medical director of St Saviour Hospital at Okija.