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A Staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Emmanuel Igwe has been reportedly shot dead by unknown gunmen along the Ivo Local Government Area axis of the State.
The victim who was an Assistant Electoral Officer in Afikpo North LGA, encountered the assailants while on his way back from Abia State.
The Eastern Updates gathered that the victim’s wife (names withheld) was equally kidnapped.
Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Ebonyi State Command, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya who revealed that the incident occurred on Sunday around mid-day, and said the gunmen shot the victim through his car’s windscreen.
‘We have began a manhunt for the assailants. We are hopeful that they will be apprehended. The victim was shot through the windscreen of his car’
The Eastern Updates reports that in recent times, the route linking Ivo axis of Ebonyi State through Okigwe has become a den for kidnappers masquerading as Fulani herdsmen.
Motorists are usually not seem on that route as they have chosen an alternative route to Imo, Abia, and Enugu States.
In another report, a police officer was confirmed dead yesterday as the convoy of former governor of Imo State, Senator Okorocha, was attacked by some yet-to-be-identified unknown gunmen.
The Eastern Updates gathered that ex-governor’s convoy was reportedly attacked at Ihube in Okigwe community, along the Okigwe-Enugu expressway.
Confirming the killing of the police officer and the assassination bid on him, Okorocha said he was surprised that his convoy could be attacked.
Senator Okorocha, who made the disclosure yesterday, at Amaimo, Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state, at the birthday celebration of Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 11 governorship polls in Imo State, described the killing of the police officer as unfortunate.
