The Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has condemned the killing of three members of the state’s Vigilance Group, on official duty at Nkwo, Igboukwu, in the Aguata Local Government Area of the state.
According to The PUNCH, the names of the deceased as revealed by the governor’s Press Secretary, Christian Aburime through a press statement are Okeke Emeka, Nnayelu Orizu and Chukwuma Ubaego.
The victims were murdered on Wednesday by unidentified gunmen opened who fire on them.
Condemning the killings, the governor vowed that those responsible for the deaths of the three vigilantes would be apprehended and brought to justice.
The governor also guaranteed that those responsible for the attack on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy, in which several of his orderlies and security details were killed, would soon face the full wrath of the law.
He commiserated with the families of the deceased and Igboukwu community, assuring that the death of the vigilantes would not be in vain.
He added, “This particular act of killing is inhuman and totally unacceptable. The perpetrators will surely not go scot-free as we are fully determined to fish them out to pay dearly for their crimes,” he stressed.