Gunmen storm Anambra community, kidnap leader

....brutalize wife, son

By Efe Onodjae

Armed gun men whose identities are yet- to -be known, early morning Tuesday, attacked the residence of one of the community leaders in Eziowelle, Idemili North Local government area, Anambra state and abducted the 67-year-old owner of the house, Anthony Ojemba Chigbo. His wife, Francisca, 54, was brutalized while their son, Ifedinachi, 27, was shot on the leg during the raid that lasted two hours.

Wife of the victim who was seriously wounded on the face and hands during the attack said the attackers, armed with AK 47 rifles and numbering about twenty, forced their way into their compound by climbing their fence and breaking doors and windows in their house. She said the gun men shattered all the glasses in their building and gained entrance through the garage after which they demanded for her husband.

Narrating the plight of her family in pains, she said they subjected her son, Ifedinachi, to untold battering after which they shot him on the leg when he could not tell them the where about of his father. According to her, I had to throw myself on top of my son in a bid to protect him when they threatened to kill him. “At this stage, they pounced on me and continued beating me with sticks and guns while I was pleading that they should not kill my son.

“When the beating continued without ceasing, my husband who was hidden in his bedroom came out and pleaded with them to kill him instead of killing his wife and son. They then kicked him and he feel down. They gagged him with chains and started beating him after which they matched him into their Hilux Pickup parked at the gate and drove to an unknown destination.”

Her story: “On Tuesday morning by 5:30 am, two of our dogs started barking. I stood up to use the restroom and when I was done, I looked through the window. I saw some group of people entering the compound from the fence. I woke my husband up to inform him that we have guests. They were about twenty people. I thought they were armed robbers. When my husband woke up, I told him to go and hide and he went to hide in my children’s room. They started knocking at the door of the parlor, shouting ‘everybody in this house should come out.’ But we all kept quiet and we started hearing gunshots.

“They went to the kitchen window, started shooting at the door of the kitchen and they succeeded in entering from the garage to the parlor. When they came in, they saw a phone with my son and and they shot him on the leg and seized it. My son started crying “why would you shoot me. What did I do?” They continued beating him. I had to lay down on top of him begging that they should kill me first before they kill my son. At this stage, my husband came out from his hiding place and asked the gun men who they wanted, they said they were looking for Ojemba and my husband said, ‘I am Ojemba, please leave my family.

“They now descended on him, chained his two hands and dragged him to the ground while beating him mercilessly. After that, they forced him out of the compound and drove away with a white Hilux they came with to an unknown place with all our telephones and many other valuables.

” Since then, we have been going round all police stations to report and search for him without success. We are suspecting that the armed men must have been hired by some traditional leaders in our community, Oddida Umuoniya village, Eziowelle, Idemili North LGA in Anambra, who have been fighting my husband over our land. Few weeks back, they stormed our house with gun-wielding policemen from Zone 13, Ukpor, harassed and arrested him only to release him later.

The same gang that attacked us also invaded the home of our youth leader same night but he narrowly escaped death. I am appealing to the Governor of Anambra State and the Inspector-General of Police and all security agencies to urgently intervene and help locate my husband, dead or alive. He has not committed any crime and his abductors subjected all of us to serious torturing and beating before disappearing with him. We don’t know the state of his health or where they have taken him to, as we speak,” she lamented.

Source : Vanguardngr

Source Anambra current news Facebook page
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WQknA5oBf7BBWw21LsWeoRJbmUSrtLtPo9c4VdgYmC8c3EJNrsxzE6YfBYQVvfrgl&id=100083098003852

Second source Vanguard
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2022/08/gunmen-storm-anambra-community-kidnap-leader/amp/

no election in south east - Simon Ekpa

Pandev:
no election in south east - Simon Ekpa

And then when they carry out their threats people like gidgiddy will still be asking for evidence that they are the ones carrying out their threats

You need to impress the person that is sponsoring you so that your 30k salary go quickly enter. Keep it up

Pandev:
no election in south east - Simon Ekpa

And still elections held in Anambra state. Believe that guy at your own peril.

South East is on lockdown for Obi.

You see now...

This are the people supporting and sponsoring peter Obi..

God forbid Obi as President of Nigeria !

No sensible igboman or Nigerians will support Obi government

This is his state .. Obi wont condemn this ..

Yet Obi is planing to stop herdsmen in Benue, Bandits in north west. And boko in Northeast

Yet the fool have not condemn the beheading of his state House of Representatives.. Obi is yet to condemn the actions of his sponsors


Honestly no sensible Nigeria will drive Ekpa and his IPOB bingos to aso villa with their votes

Voting Obi is like pouring tanker of fuel on hell fire .

Nigerians must wake from all this obi media noise and face reality

Power to the people

Bluntguy:

And still elections held in Anambra state. Believe that guy at your own peril.

South East is on lockdown for Obi.

did you mean John Mikel Obi? Cause Peter Obi can win even Anambra

Pandev:
did you mean John Mikel Obi? Cause Peter Obi can win even Anambra

Buhari is not the only person bearing that name in Nigeria but once you hear Buhari even you know which Buhari people are talking about. Same with emilokan. So common sense should have told you the Obi I am talking about.

IPOB have become so demonized that almost every act of gun wielding crime is attributed to them.
And they deserve it.If their cowardly bedroom order dishing leader currently in Buhari's grip wasn't making violence inciting statements on social media and the useless members themselves weren't threatening people to obey their orders, the FG wouldn't have found a reason to hang them like the proverbial dog.The foolishness of IPOB never let them know that most Igbos only obey sit at home out of fear of attack by useless hooligans, not out of support for them

OyigboUpdate:


Source Anambra current news Facebook page
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WQknA5oBf7BBWw21LsWeoRJbmUSrtLtPo9c4VdgYmC8c3EJNrsxzE6YfBYQVvfrgl&id=100083098003852

Second source Vanguard
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2022/08/gunmen-storm-anambra-community-kidnap-leader/amp/

This one has no other job than to go online and search if there was any gun crime commited in the South East, so he can come on Nairaland and say IPOB did it, with zero evidence

Why the mods are letting this guy get away with this disinformation, I will never know

So where did esn came into the picture @op?

Stupid op. U post news but don't bother to read wat u posted. Obviously month is ending so u need to work harder for ur pay...... in the news u posted the family accuse other elders in the community who are locked in a land dispute with the community leader.......in the same story u posted this is not the first time he is been arrested for refusal to sign over documents for the land...... yet u drag esn into the news

gidgiddy:


This one has no other job than to go online and search if there was any gun crime commited in the South East, so he can come on Nairaland and say IPOB did it, with zero evidence

Why the mods are letting this guy get away with this disinformation, I will never know

You are carrying out your threats and u want evidence that is you that is doing it

Pierohandsome:
So where did esn came into the picture @op?

Esn is the same as unknown gunmen

Pandev:
no election in south east - Simon Ekpa

I declared no referendum no election in Biafraland

Mazi Simon Ekpa

OyigboUpdate:

Esn is the same as unknown gunmen

what of the unknown gunmen caught in Anambra by same esn, how come they are catching themselves, abi esn they arrest esn?

gidgiddy:


This one has no other job than to go online and search if there was any gun crime commited in the South East, so he can come on Nairaland and say IPOB did it, with zero evidence

Why the mods are letting this guy get away with this disinformation, I will never know

ESN has already taken up arms
So ESN is responsible
https://mobile.twitter.com/simon_ekpa/status/1558731602104287232


Mazi Simon Ekpa

Mazisimonekpa:
I declared no referendum no election in Biafraland

Mazi Simon Ekpa

if the real Simon Ekpa catch una, I no dey there.

gidgiddy:


This one has no other job than to go online and search if there was any gun crime commited in the South East, so he can come on Nairaland and say IPOB did it, with zero evidence

Why the mods are letting this guy get away with this disinformation, I will never know

YOU CANNOT SILENCE ME WITH TRIBALISM OR NEPOTISM!!!

REPACKAGING PETER OBI?

If no be say person get strong mind na so dem wan repackage Obi give person.

Obi of 13months doctors strike in Anambra. 13!
Obi of Akwuzu SARS. Unalloyed ter**rorism
Obi that did not employ teachers in Anambra for 8years
Obi that did not develope Awka in 8 years
Obi that did not employ civil servants in Anambra for 8years
Obi that his driver was caught with 250m cash in Lagos
Obi that does not own any investment in Anambra, no supermarket, no warehouse

Obi of massive kid*napping.
Obi that ordered the ma*ssacre of arm*less MASSOB protesters in 2006 & 2013 and had their dead bodies thrown into the Ezu River.
Obi of 6months Anambra State Univ strike.
Obi of 7 years unpaid salaries for State Water Board workers. 7years. 260 of them died.

Obi of Pandora papers. Opening secret businesses abroad with his kid's name while he was governor. Dem catch am red handed

Obi of 7years no LGA election. 7years!
Obi of no IGR growth.
Obi of no signature infrastructure. Non!
Obi anti-infrastructure.
Obi wey carry state money put for family business.

Obi importer of groceries for over 30years driving down naira value. He Couldn't metamorphose into production like Dangote , BUA, Adeleke etc
Revd Barr Christian Nwachukwu

- Asari Dokubo

Pierohandsome:
what of the unknown gunmen caught in Anambra by same esn, how come they are catching themselves, abi esn they arrest esn?

Yes because ESN are of two fraction one fraction from DOS Chinasa Nworu and another fraction from Simeon Ekpa

Its only a made in Nigeria idiot that will tag this trend to
IPOB/ESN/PETER OBI.
quote me and say nonsense let's see if you will not run mad.

Coly2012:
Its only a made in Nigeria idiot that will tag this trend to
IPOB/ESN/PETER OBI.
quote me and say nonsense let's see if you will not run mad.

Ipob and ESN and unknown gunmen are one and the same.
Labour party is a different thing all together that's what I keep telling people

OyigboUpdate:


And then when they carry out their threats people like gidgiddy will still be asking for evidence that they are the ones carrying out their threats

At this junction I will say you are suffering from dementia.. your headline pointed to one group but you couldn't edit b4 posting thereby the body of the report(towards the end) gave you away that the headline is misleading... bro try sabi or learn journalism, even if you are paid to dent someone or people's image,do it right so that it will look real and true.....

Been taking ur reports seriously but at this junction, I don comot hands... onye journalist wey no sabi him work na suegbe Abi wetin fela call una again?... ara dina udi n'di

Reading and commenting makes this guy feel important but everyone dey watch and talk about something of importance and as IPOB is important onukwube

Town crier

They did not sit at home.

Pandev:
if the real Simon Ekpa catch una, I no dey there.

another Simon Ekpa is a counterfeit

Mazi Simon Ekpa

OyigboUpdate:


Yes because ESN are of two fraction one fraction from DOS Chinasa Nworu and another fraction from Simeon Ekpa

so which one is the authentic one approved by Nnamdi Kanu