Chris Ohizu, the only administrator of Imo State’s Ideato North Local Government Area, and two other people were abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Friday.
This came after his attackers destroyed his rural home in the Imoko neighbourhood of Arondizuogu.
According to a source who spoke to our correspondent, the council leader was shot before his assailants took him and two other victims away.
The sole administrator of Ideato North was taken hostage last night together with two other people after setting fire to his home in the Imoko hamlet of Arondizuogu, according to the source. Before they removed him, they shot him in the leg. This man recently returned from the hospital. I am currently devastated.
Another source who confirmed the development decried the spate of insecurity going on in the area.
He said, “The house of Ideato North SOLAD was burnt down and he was kidnapped with a bullet wound on his leg as I heard.
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“I have been making this report since last year and early this year till now no single presence of the police anywhere in Arondizuogu and no single arrest. We are now at the mercy of God. ”
This came less than a week after the country home of the spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ugochinyere Imo, was attacked at Akokwa community in the Ideato North LGA, with three persons killed and about 33 vehicles razed.
Also, a man who was about to wed was same last week killed with his brother at Arondizuogu in the Ideato North LGA.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said he would verify and get back to our correspondent but he had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
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