The Police in Imo State have set up an investigation team to unravel those behind the beheading of Ideato North LGA chair
By Emma Ogbuehi
Against the backdrop of public outcry following the beheading of the Sole Administrator of Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Christopher Ohizu, on Monday, Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ahmed Barde, has constituted a high-powered investigation team to unravel those behind the dastardly act.
The Command made this known to newsmen in Owerri, on Monday through the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Henry Okoye, while reacting to the incident.
Viral videos of the council chairman’s beheading surfaced online on Sunday evening. He was abducted with bullet wound alongside two others on Friday after his country home at Imoko community in Arondizuogu area of the LGA was razed.
It was gathered that his abductors had allegedly received a N6 million ransom before beheading him on Sunday.
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The video of his beheading was posted with his own phone on his WhatsApp status. This was how people got to know that he has been beheaded.
The Police disclosed that, “tremendous progress was being made before the surfacing of the obscene video.”
According to the command, “The Imo State Police Command is aware of the iniquitous and obscene video that has gone viral on social media where, a man, suspected to be the abducted Ideato North LGA Sole Administrator, was seen kneeling, his hands tied undergoing inhuman act and subsequently killed by suspected members of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN).
“The command wishes to inform the good people of the State that, we are already on top of the situation following a high-powered investigation team, inaugurated by the Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde, psc (+), and has since commenced technical investigation on the date of the abduction and have been on the trail of the hoodlums where tremendous progress was being made before the surfacing of the obscene video.
“However, the Command’s Tactical Teams are not relenting in their efforts to arrest and unravel the identity of the perpetrators of this dastardly act with the sole aim of bringing them to face the full wrath of the law.
“Meanwhile, the Command is using this medium to call on the good people of Ideato North Community and the general public to remain calm and go about their lawful businesses as the Police and other Security Agencies are working assiduously as adequate security measures have been put in place to forestall future occurrence”.