No fewer than eight (8) persons lost their lives untimely in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State following the invasion of unknown gunmen few days ago.
Briefing newsmen in Abakaliki, the Executive Chairman of Onicha Local Government Area, Engr. Felix Igboke described the incident as most condemnable and the height of man's inhumanity to man.
While expressing sadness over the cruel act, Igboke explained that the hoodlums invaded the area on last Thursday, October 6 and unleashed mayhem on the innocent people.
"In last Thursday's attack, the hoodlums who came in cars succeeded in gaining entrance into the council's secretariat as visitors and immediately opened fire on the police officers securing the area and in the process gunned down two of them.
"Other officers around engaged them and subsequently repelled them.
"The hoodlums did not stop there after being repelled. They moved down to Onicha Igboeze through Nkwoagu Isu junction shooting everyone they could see.
"They killed one driver along the way, shot another at a filling station in Enuagu Onicha, ran into a Sienna bus, snatched it, killed the three occupants including a lawyer and transfered themselves into it and zoomed off after setting ablaze the one they came in," Igboke explained.
The Council Chairman wondered on what perpetrators and sponsors of the attacks stand to gain, pointing that, no genuine agitation for freedom as suspected would have chosen to kill fellow human.
He however, assured the council people of adequate security, saying that the security agencies have swung into action to ensure those behind the atrocities are apprehended.
