Gunmen ravaging Anambra State in South-East Nigeria are said to have murdered two people in Nkwele near Housing Estate 33 in Onitsha, the state’s commercial capital.
Residents in the neighborhood expressed their anxieties and apprehension early Monday morning as a result of the gunmen’s intermittent firing, after which two unnamed people were reported to have been killed.
Despite locals’ claims that the killing was unrelated to the region’s regular Monday sit-at-home order, a source verified to Newsmen that many inhabitants of the area were inside following the event and following the sit-at-home order.
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“I heard there was sporadic shooting at Nkwele, that is around the Housing Estate 33 this morning but I didn’t go to the place myself, but my friend at that place confirmed that two persons were killed.
“We have not ascertained the identities of the victims.”
When contacted, the state police public relations officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, said, “There is such report before me please.”
Meanwhile, despite the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) declaration of a sit-at-home order in 2021 following the detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Nigerian government, Simon Ekpa, a Finland-based IPOB member, has continued to execute the order.
Armed hoodlums accused of implementing the cancelled sit-at-home order have killed many people and destroyed property around the region.
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