Gory details of the massacre of Imo youths by operatives of the State’s vigilante, Ebubeagu, are beginning to filter out even as Governor Hope Uzodimma continues to claim the hullabaloo is propaganda and blackmail.
Angry youths blocked the Owerri/Onitsha road on Tuesday to protest the killings of many youths who were returning from a traditional wedding in Awomamma in Oru East Local government area to Otulu in Oru West Local government area of the state.
Members of the deceased families are publicly lamenting their horrible ordeal.
Speaking to the Vanguard newspaper, one of them, Chidozie Ekesinachi, narrated his ordeal in the hands of the suspected Ebubeagu security operatives and how he lost his two younger brothers.
Ekesinachi said he was among those arrested by the Ebubeagu operatives on Sunday and they were taken to their office at Oru East council area, where they detained them till the next day, Monday.
On Monday, he was released alongside others after they were identified as people from the Otulu community.
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Ekesinachi said after he regained his freedom, some people called his attention to the fact that his brothers were among those killed. He rushed to the venue of the ill-fated traditional wedding ceremony only to confirm that the story was true.
According to him, “I heard that my brothers were killed and I rushed there to find out if it was true. I got there and I saw my brothers and many others lying lifeless. Some of them were still apprentices in their various workplaces. Mainly those I saw were indigenes of Otulu, the names of my two brothers are Chukwuemeka and Ifesinachi.
“They were killed at the premises of the traditional wedding ceremony. Some started beating them and put them in the boot of the jeep vehicle. The Ebubeagu people carried us to their station in Omuma local government area. The next day they brought us out and asked us to go.”
Vanguard
