Ebubeagu operative beheaded by gunmen in Ebonyi

By UCHENNA INYA, Abakaliki

Gunmen have reportedly killed an Ebubeagu security operative in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Sunday Nwafor and cut off his head. The incident occurred in Ekpelu, in the local government.

This is even as some members of the security outfit in Ivo Local Government in the state are said to have allegedly tortured a notorious robbery suspect in the area, Nnaogo Akpoke Anyim to death.

In the Ekpelu incident, over five gunmen stormed the house of Sunday Nwafor while he was asleep in the night and shot him dead.

The gunmen reportedly dragged his body out of his room and cut of his head and took it away.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah confirmed the incident.

She said: “According to the DPO of Ikwo Police Division, he said that some gunmen went to one Sunday Nwafor’s house one Sunday. Sunday Nwafor is about 30 years old and a member of the Ebubeagu security outfit in Ikwo Local Government Area. So, the gunmen broke into his room while asleep and shot him dead. They dragged the body outside the room and beheaded him.

“According to the wife who spoke to policemen, she said that before she heard a gunshot, she over-heard one of the hoodlums telling her husband that he left them in the bush and came back home to enjoy himself by collecting N30, 000 from the government.

“Two of the suspects have been arrested. Investigation is ongoing. This act is barbaric and an act of inhumanity. While are we recording these things in Ikwo? This is coming barely two weeks after recording the other Ebubeagu incident that was also killed in this form and half burnt.

“The Commissioner of Police condemns in totality this kind of killing and has vowed to do everything within the ambit of the law to ensure that the remaining perpetrators are brought to book.”

The PPRO also confirmed the torture of Anyim by operatives of the Ebubeagu security outfit for alleged robbery.

Anyim was tied with hands behind his back and tortured with an axe by some operatives of the security outfit in the area for alleged robbery, molesting women sexually and other alleged crimes. Video of the torture has gone viral on social media.

Meanwhile, youths of Akaeze on Sunday reportedly attacked operatives of the security outfit in the area and everyone implicated in the torture and death of Anyim.

It was learnt that a prominent politician in the area shot two of the attackers which has heightened tension in the community. (Saturday Telegraph)