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Ebonyi Govt Vows To Arrest Killers Of INEC Staff, Farmer

     Ebonyi State Governor, Mr Francis Nwifuru 

The Ebonyi State government has vowed to arrest the killers of a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mr Sunday Igwe and an elderly farmer, Mr Ajah Okafor. 

News Rider reports that Igwe was killed by gunmen along Mpu (Enugu)-Ishiagu (Ebonyi) road on June 18, 2023, and his wife was abducted while on transit. 

The gunmen also killed Okafor, father to Leader of the Ohaneze Ndigbo socio-cultural organisation’s youth wing, Damian Okafor, on his farm while fleeing with the abducted woman. 

State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Jude Okpor, disclosed on Wednesday shortly after the maiden state Executive Council (EXCO) meeting, that Governor Francis Nwifuru was furious by the kilings, which he described as heartbreaking.

He noted that security issues are not discussed in public, assuring that the government would double its efforts  to apprehend the killers. 

Okpor hinted that the governor recently attended the first security council meeting alongside all heads of security agencies and promised to priortise the security of Ebonyi people. 

He reiterated the decision of government to revamp education and make public schools attractive again, just as he enjoined the two commissioners in charge of primary, secondary and tertiary education to enhance performance in the schools. 

“They were directed to ensure that public schools rank higher than the private
 ones, to make EXCO members and the public enrol their children in such schools.

“The governor also pledged to send them abroad to understudy functional education systems,” he added.

He promised that the government would soon construct houses for indigenes of the state displaced by communal crisis.

Okpor noted that the commissioner for housing and urban development was directed to set modalities for the construction of inital 50 bungalows for the displaced persons.
He stated that the modalities for the implementation of the policy would soon be made public. 

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