Okorocha Raises Alarm As Gunmen Kill Police Escort

Former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has raised the alarm over safety in the State after a policeman attached to him was gunned down along the Okigwe-Enugu Expressway.

He made the disclosure on Sunday at the country home of Senator Samuel Anyanwu, gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11 Imo State governorship election.

Okorocha was Imo governor between May 2011 and 2019, and Imo West Senator from 2019 to 2023.

He disclosed that the slain policeman was attached to the governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, who directed his armed security operatives to accompany him (Okorocha) to the interment of the mother of Chief Emeka Ihedioha, Dame Dorothy Ihedioha, on Friday.

He said, “I am angry. I am very angry because I spent two days in Enugu and nothing happened to me but it is in my own state that the convoy released to me by the governor of Enugu State, a very good man, to attend the burial ceremony of Ihedioha’s mother at Mbaise that was attacked and one policeman killed.”

According to him, he had attended the burial of Mrs Ken Nnamani in Enugu and Governor Mbah directed his police operatives to accompany him to Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise, in Imo State for Dame Ihedioha’s burial.

He explained that after burial event, he had returned to his Owerri residence while the operatives were attacked on their way back to Enugu State.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the vehicles comprised of a Sport Utility Vehicle, a bus and Hilux, and were shattered by bullets around Ihube, along the Okigwe-Enugu expressway.

A source who pleaded anonymity told LEADERSHIP that two other security agents were kidnapped by the attackers but were lat

er released same day.