Gov Rochas Okorocha addressing repentant militants who surrendered their weapons to Imo government
While those they elected are doing little or nothing to protect them, at least another 10 persons have been reported killed by some unidentified hoodlums who raided two communities, Umuokeduru and Imeni in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State.
The armed hoodlums stormed the two communities at night when people were fast asleep.
There has been no claim of responsibility but residents believe that the act was carried out by some aggrieved ex-militants, who were left out in the amnesty programme of the state and Federal Governments.
A villager, who spoke with Vanguard, said “two former commanders of the militants, who are now living very big, are among the natives of the two communities attacked by the rampaging hoodlums.
“The two ex-militant commanders now live like kings in choice hotels in Owerri, while their former colleagues live in abject poverty and want. The situation is more than enough to annoy anybody,” the villager said.
According to the villager, “the attack left traces of fear, sorrow, tears and blood.”
Another version has it that ex-militants, who are very angry with the way they had been sidelined, after opting for peace and dropping their weapons, carried out the killings.
There has been an upsurge in militancy and cultism in Nigeria recently and Nigerians now live at the mercy of hoodlums, with governments at state and federal levels doing little or nothing to ensure security of lives and property.
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