The southeast, place of birth of the Igbo ethnic crew, is agitating to secede from the remainder of Nigeria and the banned Indigenous Other people of Biafra (IPOB) crew has been main the ones calls.
Okechukwu Okoye, a legislator within the Anambra state meeting and his aide went lacking on Might 15. His head used to be discovered on Saturday evening in a park within the Nnewi south native executive house, Anambra state police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga mentioned.
“The lawmaker used to be killed. His head used to be discovered alongside Nnobi street. There’s no suspect in custody but,” Ikenga mentioned.
The Anambra state governor has submit a ten million naira ($24,000) praise for info at the killers.
Early this month, gunmen killed and beheaded two infantrymen in neighboring Imo state. The federal government accused IPOB, which denied the price.
The violence within the southeast is some other layer of lack of confidence in Nigeria, the place kidnappings for ransom are not unusual within the northwest and an Islamist insurgency has been happening for greater than a decade within the northeast of the rustic.
Amnesty Global mentioned remaining August that Nigerian safety forces had killed no less than 115 other people within the southeast within the first 8 months of 2021 and arbitrarily arrested or tortured rankings of others. The federal government didn’t remark.
