Hope Uzodinma, the governor of Imo State, has claimed that members of the Department of State Service (DSS), the country’s secret police, are to blame for the recent murders of 14 young people in the state.
He asserted that, contrary to what some accounts suggest, those who were killed were not wedding guests departing from an Awo-Omamma traditional wedding.
Recall that a viral video that went viral on social media showed Otulu village residents wheeling the bodies of the deceased youths to the market square.
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Locals claimed that Ebubeagu, a local security organization in Imo State, wrongly branded the deceased youngsters as bandits and killed them as they were coming home on Sunday night after attending a local traditional marriage ceremony.
After the weekly Security Council meeting, Governor Uzodinma briefed the media at the Government House in Owerri about the incident. He confirmed that the killings were carried out by DSS agents, not Ebubeagu, and spoke about the incident in detail.
Hope insisted that, in contrast to popular belief, the operation was carried out by DSS personnel who attacked a bandit stronghold in the neighborhood after receiving what he called “intelligence reports.”
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He said the “government would not succumb to any campaign of calumny or blackmail in the course of fighting insecurity in the state.”
He maintained that all the youths killed were criminals.
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