There was pandemonium in some communities in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, when the dismembered remains of leader of a vigilante group, the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC), Mr Alex Umezuruike, was discovered.
Africa Update gathered from multiple sources that he was beheaded by suspected cultists and his body cut into pieces. The killing has caused panic in the area as residents were said to be fleeing the communities over fear of further attacks. It was revealed that the cultists invaded Umezurike’s home and shot him severally before chasing him into a nearby bush after bullets could not penetrate his body.
The killers, according to eyewitness report, later captured and killed the local vigilante leader with knife before decapitating his head from the body. A source who craved anonymity said that after killing and beheading the OSPAC commander, the killers brought back his body to the compound where it was cut in parts and his head paraded round the community.
The killing comes barely three weeks after the Chairman of Emohua Local Government Council, Dr Chidi Lloyd pronounced the proscription of all vigilante groups in the council and asked communities that make up the Council area to submit five names of natives who will be screened and recruited into a new security outfit to be established and funded by the council in no distant time.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Rivers State police command, Nnamdi Omoni, said the dismembered body of the victim has been recovered and deposited in the mortuary. Omoni said the Police have also restored normalcy in the community while the Commissioner of Police, CP Eboka Friday has ordered full-scale investigation into the incident.
