The Governor of Imo State, and the Chairman of the South East Governors Forum, Hope Uzodimma, has promised to unravel the criminal behind the killings in the state.
Speaking in an interview on Channels Television Politics Today on Friday, the governor vowed to root out the perpetrators of insecurity in the state in a few weeks, attributing insecurity in the state to politics.
Uzodimma claimed that 90 percent of those killed in the state were APC members and members of his administration, noting that this type of insecurity is directed solely towards one political party.
He said: “In a few weeks’ time – what we have deployed now, we will soon unravel those behind the killings and insecurity in Imo State.
“I have told the security to tell me the reasons behind it. It is not a coincidence that many people who are being killed are members of my party, APC. A child cries in the night, and in the day, it is lying lifeless.
“It is not also a coincidence that only lately, prominent members of my party that they participated in the last election – their houses are being attacked. Some traditional rulers that I have sympathy for our party, their party were also being attacked.
“I plead with those people who are behind the killings in Imo State, blaming and kidnapping of human beings in Imo state in the name of politics to stop, I said this times without number that the insecurity in Imo state is politically contrived and those who are behind it know themselves.”
The governor, therefore, charged security agencies to fish out those responsible for the menace,
