Gunmen at the weekend set ablaze the palace of the Eze- elect of Okwuru Orsu Ihitteukwu Community, in Orsu council area of Imo state , Eze Ezekiel Nwokedi.
The monarch – elect who is the Chairman, Odimma Orsu Initiative, an apex sociocultural organization which has been spearheading the peace initiative in the ravaged council.
The distraught monarch said that the hoodlums looted his properties before proceeding to set his house ablaze .
“The hoodlums looted my house, catered away personal belongings worth of million naira and set my home ablaze. I have lost properties worth approximately #85m.
Continuing , “Odimma Orsu Initiative which I am its Chairman has been doing every thing humanly possible to ensure that the to quench the insecurity in our council which resulted in incessant killings of innocent people, burning down of people’s houses and looting of government/pubic assets by the hoodlums in the area for the past two years and nine months .
He regretted that when they thought the situation is calming down that gunmen attacked his country home .
He therefore call on the youths to accept the offer of amnesty by the state government so that normalcy will return to the Orsu communities.
But when contacted , spokesman of the State police Command ,Henry Okoye ( ASP) said he has not been briefed by the Area Command on the incident.
Credit: Daily Sun