Ruth Oginyi
Children between 2 and 12 years old and a pregnant woman were killed in the Wednesday attack by the suspected warlords who invaded the community.
This ugly development came despite State Governor Francis Nwifuru setting up a panel to investigate the crisis to bring lasting peace to the community.
One Pastor Freeman Nwonu who hails from the community disclosed that the warlords invaded the community at about 2:pm and shot sporadically till 6:pm without soldiers in the area for peacekeeping stopping them.
Pastor Freeman said that a health center was built for the community by an international organization, AMURT Foundation, and about 30 residential houses were razed by the warlords during the invasion.
“Yesterday 1st May 2024, warlords attacked our people from 2 pm till 6 pm and they killed eleven persons and the buildings they burnt there were about 30 buildings including a hospital that was built for us by AMURT foundation, an international organization.
” The most annoying thing is that soldiers that were deployed there for peacekeeping didn’t do anything to stop them. They were there till the end of the whole thing and even denied that nothing happened in our community that yesterday”, he stated.
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Joshua Ukandu said his office had yet to receive such a report from the Ohaukwu division.
