Attempt to dethrone Obosi monarch by 30 cultists
fails, police arrest two
- Posted by Gbooza!
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fewer than 30 suspected cultists in an attempt to frustrate the upcoming Ofala
festival of His Royal Highness, Igwe Chidubem Iweka and possibly dethrone him
on Wednesday threw the Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area
of Anambra State into a state of pandemonium as about five persons got injured
in the process.
It was learnt that the alleged
cultist where out to enthrone one of their member as an Igwe.
The rampaging cultists’ first victim
was the Chairman of Obosi Land Management Council, Mr. Ezeugo Zion, who was
allegedly beaten with some machete cut on his skull.
The suspected cultists also injured
four other persons who were with Zion at the time of the attack. Two of them where
however apprehended while others escaped.
While narrating the incident to
newsmen on his hospital bed, Zion said: “Just because I am not their member and
I was picked as the chairman of Obosi Land Management Council, the cultists
numbering about 30, who have continued to terrorize our community, stormed my
office to kill me and they succeeded in cutting my head with a machete.”
Zion claimed that the hoodlums where
sent by a community leader, adding that two of the cultists were apprehended
with the assistant of the local vigilante group led by one Arthur Ilongwu and
the Special Anti-Cult Squad.
“God was so kind, they could not
kill me because my land committee members prevented those that were butchering
me and four of them were equally injured in the process. I managed to call the
police,” he disclosed.
Zion further added that a retired
Assistant Inspector-General of Police and some wealthy people from the
community were behind the attack.
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