Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has
offered to pay N5m to anyone that can give information that will lead to
the source of the unidentified corpses found floating on the Ezzu River
bordering Anambra and Enugu States on Saturday.
Obi, who cut short his overseas trip to
visit the scene on Sunday, described the killing and dumping of the
corpses as barbaric and shocking.
He said, “What happened here is
unacceptable in any decent society. Human life and blood is scared and
all of us must respect the sanctity of human life.”
The governor, who said the two states
would investigate the incident, added that they had directed the police
to move in their homicide team and recover the bodies.
The governor directed residents of the
two communities bordering the river, Amansea in Anambra State and
Ugwuoba in Enugu State to desist from fetching water from the river
until the corpses were cleared from the river.
Meanwhile, the corpses have begun to decompose and are oozing offensive smells in the neighbourhood.
Our correspondent gathered that the
police, local governments, ministry of health and the Anambra State
Emergency Management Agency did not have the facilities to evacuate the
corpses.
The Awka Area Commander of the Police
told the governor that the Awka North and Awka South Local governments
had been passing the buck as to which of the councils should clear the
corpses.
The Executive Director of the Anambra
State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Nwabufo Ijezie, said he had
reported the matter to the Epidemiology Department of the Ministry of
Health, which he said should carry out studies on the corpses and clear
them.
It said since it was no longer an emergency, SEMA would no longer handle it.
Residents of the two communities have
however been raising concerns about the consequences of allowing the
corpses to pollute the river, which they depend on for economic
activities, like fishing, sand excavation and water supply.
D 5million resome is enough to sink bornhole in dese communities. Mr Governor Obi,we know n u know u've failed d people of Anambra,just throwing money arnd n devouring people's wealth. God will judge u.
ReplyDeleteTo (Anonymous@ January 21, 2013 at 8:11 AM) You be the biggest Mumu with an internet access!
ReplyDeleteFor you to be making such comments about the governor when the issue at hand bothers on the massacre of people. If you have grudges with Mr Peter Obi go settle it somewhere else not here and not on this issue please.
So you want Gov Obi to sink bore hole for them with the 5m and let the killers continue killing? Next time it will be ur own corpes that will be floating in that river. You would have still complained if Obi had sunk borehole instead of finding the hudlums.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 8.11 is right in the sense dat in 2013 and with the amount of money that anambra state generates and gets as allocation, there is no reason why dese villages would depend on a river as a source of water supply. this calls 4 forensic investigation( unfortunately, we neither have d brains nor equipments) its just 4 d local police 2 check the data base of missing persons in d area and compare their dna with the deceased or take their finger print and run it in d data base of d NCC sim reg data bank or d voters reg data bank. There are other alternatives 2 explore + d N5m reward then we wil be on d part to discovery. Meanwhile anambra state govt, this crime has really exposed you!
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