The Anambra State Police Command has said it will subject a recent video by a beer parlor operator identifying some members of the Owerre-Ezukala community cooperating with gunmen terrorizing the area, to forensic review.
In the video, the beer parlor operator, a woman, who identified herself as Ujunwa Agueze, revealed where the gunmen operate from in the Orumba South LGA Community.
She further confessed that her husband, Mr. Onyedika Agueze knows and cooperates with the unknown gunmen terrorizing the state and the entire southeastern Nigeria.
Mrs Agueze, who revealed that she just married her husband this January, was arrested during a recent raid by security forces as part of the ongoing ‘Operation Udoka’ in the Southeast.
In the video, she further made another shocking revelation, about a parley between the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Thomas Ogbannaya, and the members of the dreaded group.
According to her, the monarch and other community leaders go to the unknown gunmen to settle matters regarding a mining site.
It was also gathered that the camps and operational bases which have been in the bushes for years, were also the places where the group kills or keeps many of the kidnapped and their other victims, and from where they come out to carry out different kinds of enforcements and crimes they perpetrate in the state, especially in the Anambra South Senatorial Zone.
Mrs. Agueze, who also gave the directions to the location of the camps, further revealed that the dreaded men also have many vehicles in their possession and have a bikeman who also works with them as a messenger.
She further revealed that the gunmen usually come out in the daytime and even, sometimes come to her husband’s beer parlour to drink and enjoy themselves or send someone to bring the drinks to them in their camps.
When the TNC correspondent contacted the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, he said the video was a seemingly important piece of information but added that they would thoroughly investigate it.
“The Command describes the video as a piece of information that seems to be credible and will be subjected to forensic review and proper investigation, please,” the Police Spokesman said in a chat with our reporter.
