National Leader of the Labour Party Mr. Peter Obi, has decried frequent killings of harmless and defenseless villagers in Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State by gunmen.
Obi who was reacting to Sunday’s attack that led to the death of at least five people – Okeh Simon, Ugwu Oruku, Okeh Chukwuebuka, Julius Ogbonna Odiegwu and Gabriel Ugwor Ezea, regretted that the attack has been recurring since 2015.
“I recall that in 2015, a hostel of one of the best secondary schools in that area, Mater Amabilis, Adani was completely razed by fire, and the students were without a hostel,” he stated on his X platform.
The former presidential candidate noted that he quickly intervened, rebuilt the hostel and handed the school over to the school management by March 2016, only for the people of Nimbo community to be attacked a month later and many people murdered.
“I attended their funeral alongside the former governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. I helped in consoling and rehabilitating the victims,” Obi recalled.
He described the continued terror attack in the area as disturbing, and expressed pain how these attacks have made the people of the area to live in constant fear of terror and death
