Gov. Soludo Maintains Resolve To Go After Assassins Of Late Anambra Lawmaker
The Governor of Anambra state, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has declared that inquiries into the murder of a former member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Dr. Okechukwu Okoye are still ongoing and will not stop until everyone who is believed to be related to the horrible crime are brought to book.
Governor Soludo stated this when he paid his last respect to the former Lawmaker who represented Aguata II Constituency during a funeral mass held in his honour at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Isuofia, Aguata Council Area.
According to the Governor who expressed sympathy with the family, the church, Isuofia community and the entire state, the murder of the lawmaker is a personal matter to him as he was his adopted political son and disclosed that eight suspects have been arrested and are already in custody, urging communities to start looking inwards to identify the gunmen in their territories.
He advocated operation know your tenants, starting from Isuofia, as a sort of land cleansing, revealing that the state Assembly had already written to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the need to conduct a bye-election in the constituency that will complete the tenure of the former lawmaker.
The burial mass which was presided over by Cardinal Nominee and Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, Most Reverend Peter Okpalaeke also had a number of Catholic clergy in attendance.
Earlier in a homily, Most Reverend Okpalaeke explained that though the righteous die untimely, they will have rest in the Lord, adding that reward awaits every good work, reminding Christians that they will give account to God who is the righteous judge.
Bishop Okpalaeke who highlighted the lessons in the demise of Dr. Okoye, called on the congregation to be eternally vigilant and prepared at all times, pointing out that God is always interested in giving every sinner another chance to right every wrong.
The Lawmaker was gruesomely murdered alongside his aide in May this year.
