2 killed in Edo community over leadership tussle, govt orders probe

By Ozioruva Aliu

BENIN CITY—TWO people, identified arsenic Eboh Enomwa and Stephen Imaghodo, said to beryllium borehole drillers, person been reportedly killed successful Obayanto community, Ikpoba-Okah Local Government Area of Edo State, portion the whereabouts of the 3rd idiosyncratic said to beryllium with them is inactive unknown.

Vanguard gathered that 1 of the borehole operators was a regular borehole driller successful the assemblage and that astatine times, his contractors springiness him onshore successful liu for currency payment.

He was said to person gone to determination successful Uwasota successful Benin City to inspect a task erstwhile helium was said to person received a telephone to travel to the assemblage for the digging of a borehole.

But moving to food retired the killers, the Edo State authorities has launched a full-scale probe into the the killings.

The probe is being spearheaded by the Edo State Special Security Squad, codenamed “Operation Flush Out Cultists and Kidnappers,” successful collaboration with information agencies and assemblage leaders.

A connection by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpebholo, Mr Fred Itua said the cognition was led by the Government House Chief Security Officer, CSO, Osaro Roberts, and the Principal Security Officer to the Governor, Okoh Saturday had visited the troubled community, play to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the sidesplitting of Enomwa and Imaghodo.

Addressing the assemblage during the visit, the Secretary of the Special Security Squad, John Izegaebe, condemned the enactment of unit and reiterated the government’s resoluteness to stamp retired cultism, kidnapping, and communal clashes successful the state.

He said: “Our findings truthful acold constituent to a enactment tussle betwixt 2 rival factions successful Iyanomo, which degenerated into unit and yet claimed the lives of 2 men. This is unacceptable. The politician has directed america to guarantee that each those progressive successful this heinous enactment are identified, arrested, and prosecuted. No 1 is supra the law.

“The authorities condoles with the families of the victims and assures them that justness volition beryllium served. At the aforesaid time, we are sending a precise beardown connection to assemblage leaders that disputes indispensable beryllium resolved legally, not done violence. Governor Okpebholo has zero tolerance for crime, and anyone who foments unrest successful Edo communities volition look the afloat wrath of the law.”

He assured that the probe would beryllium thorough, impartial, and far-reaching, with a steadfast committedness that the perpetrators of the killings would beryllium brought to book, nary substance however highly placed.

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