ANAMBRA GOVERNMENT OFFERS N5MILLION TO UNVEIL KILLERS OF IGBOKA
The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Mustapha Dandaura, had already hinted the State Governor, Chief Wille Obiano on the killing, Igboka, who was a former member of the State House of Assembly.
Penpushing reports that, the Governor had already directed other security operatives – the Department of State Security, Intelligence Officers in the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Navy as well as the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to join the Police in redoubling efforts to ensure that the culprits are brought to book .
” I urged you to re-enact the same level of enthusiasm and competence they exhibited in the arrest, two weeks ago of Ikechukwu Udensi, the most wanted murder suspect in Anambra State, immediately he entered the State to collect illegal revenues. You have to display the same commitment and competence this time in tracing the killers of Chief Igboka, who was also a former Chairman of Njikoka Local Government Area”, he stated
The Governor described the killing as utterly heartless, noting that the deceased elder brother, Chief Charles Igboka, a former Nigerian Diplomat in Europe, one-time Special Adviser to the then Minister of Health, Prof ABC Nwosu and former Chief of Staff to then Military Administrator, old Anambra State, Col Rorbert Akonobi, who incidentally their in-law died only two weeks ago and was yet to be buried.
“It is a shame that the killing of Chief Igboka should take place in the week leading to Easter when men and women of goodwill throughout the world are reconciling themselves with God and fellow human beings”,Obiano said.
“His father, Sir Vincent Igboka, a distinguished Papal Knight, was a great Christian Missionary who devoted his whole of his life to the spread of the good news. He worked in such a way that he is being considered for Canonization in some quarters”.
Penpushing further reports that, the Governor emphasized that no stone will be left unturned in the effort to make Anambra remain the safest and most peaceful State in Nigeria, stressing that, “anyone who thinks that he can spill the blood of an innocent Anambra person and go scot-free is living in a fool’s paradise”.
‘All the persons who have in the last five years attempted to spill blood in the State have been caught up by the long arms of the law. Chief Igboka’s killers cannot be different” ,the Governors declared.
