Armed Men Kill Woman As Flood Cuts Off Fed Road At Nkwelle Ezunaka Community

By Julie Sylvia, Onitsha

Rampaging flood has allegedly cut off the Onitsha/Otuocha/Nsukka Federal road at Ifite village, Nkwelle-Ezunaka community, Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State, resulting in the killing of a woman by armed men, in the cut off spot.

Lamenting the flood menace and untimely death of the woman Monday, a community chieftain and treasurer of the community, Chief Ogbuefi Gibson Udeagwu, called for immediate attention of the State and Federal Governments to the dilapidated portion and other roads in the community, stating that the cut off portion is beyond the financial capability of the community.

Narrating the ordeal of the woman on the hands of her assailants and the menace of flood to the community, he said that unless something was done immediately, the entire community would be cut off by the flood as the rainy season set in.

“Now we are in a rainy season and we found out that our roads are bad, a lot of places in Nkwelle are bad. We are trying to help the government for the community to have access roads. The PG and his executives will have a meeting sometime this week on how we can fill our roads, caused by flooding.

“One is at hill view axis, going to 3-3, the other before apex mortuary. This flood has cut off the Federal road into two. There is one by ifite Nkwelle, where they have sweet mother garden.

“As a result of the cut off portion of the Federal road at Ifite village, a woman who was being trailed by armed men, was speeding to escape from the gunmen and on getting to the cut off portion, she was trapped, and they brought her out, stripped her, stabbed and macheted her to death,” he lamented.

“So the road issue is going to be one of the major issues the PG will table in the meeting so that we can be able to trash those roads.

“Coming to my village Oze, going towards building material by climbing Nkisi hill, the road is almost breaking. So we will put it in agenda that we feel it and beg this construction company that is doing the road to assist us with their caterpillar to scrab a better corner for the passage of the people,” he stated.

He commended the PG, Chief Okafor, for restoring peace in the community especially at Uruebo village where there was crises over land.

“Peace has been restored in Nkwelle-Ezunaka through PG. There is a very dangerous thing that has lingered in the community, mostly at Uruebo village where youths are struggling for land, on the process one was killed, and his corpse deposited in the mortuary for two years now, others were in the prison.

“This executive went to Otuocha High Court 3, sitting at Onitsha, when the matter came up, we stood up and begged the judge to release those boys to us that we will make peace and come back to court.God will be with that judge, he released them without any protocol. The last meeting we went with Uruebo village, they have started doing the necessary things they suppose to do so that the remains of the man will be buried.

” This government is returning full peace, if we can settle that which has lingered for two years plus before we came in, it is commendable,” he stated.

In the leadership of Nkwelle-Ezunaka today, you
can found out that we have water tight security because any government without security is in danger. The President -General, PG, Chief Willie Okafor, has empowered the security, and you cannot hear some of the casualties that was happening again.

“He told the community, to report those living in the neighbourhood, or anybody living with you, with questionable character, to the appropriate quarter(Chief Security Officer)CSO of Nkwelle,” he revealed.

Earlier, the PG lamented the cut off road at Ifite village, stating that flood is seriously threatening four of the villages in the community and named them to include, Ezi-Nkwelle, Ifite, Amuche and Uruebo.

“The worst is Ifite village, the road that leads to Aguleri/Otuocha. It has eaten deep and untouchable. We have shown it to Government and we are waiting for their directive,” he disclosed.

Pics show portions of the cut off road at Ifite Village