Kalu Chima is the Commander of Ebubeagu Security Network in Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Kalu Chima, the Commander of Ebubeagu Security Network in Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has narrated how gunmen stormed his house and shot dead his seven-month pregnant wife, Urenma Chima, on New Year’s Day.
The gunmen also burnt his two houses in Amaoso community.
Chima, while speaking to The Nation reporter in Abakaliki, said the attack was an offshoot of the recent clashes between supporters of two political heavyweights in Ekoli Edda, in the same local government.
He said: “On 1st January, 2023, I was sleeping in my bed with my wife and my two kids, Blessing Kalu Chima, 12 years old, and Roseline Kalu Chima, two years old, when I heard a gunshot in front of my house which woke me up immediately.
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“I walked to the window and opened the curtain and saw men with AK47 riffles numbering about 19 and I know them all.
“One of them who is the coordinator of one of the Development Centres in our local government, was positioning them, ordering them to cordon off my house. Some of them hit my door twice. I told my wife, let’s run away.
“Because of my wife’s pregnancy, she couldn’t run. When the door was hit the third time, I left my wife and my children, and escaped through the backyard.
“I jumped the fence and landed where villagers throw waste. I laid there and heard last gunshot and my wife shouted and couldn’t talk again. They poured fuel on my two houses and set them on fire.
“I called my PA to go and see what was happening in my house. When he got there, he saw the body of my wife and my two kids.”