About 10 persons were said to have died in the convoy of the
senator representing Anambra South, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on Sunday evening
attack.
Details gathered show that some of the deceased persons have
been identified.
Though Anambra State Police command had in a phone call with
its spokesperson, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga denied knowledge of the exact number of
persons killed, sources said about 10 persons died in the attack, which was
suspected to be an assassination attempt.
A source said: “Senator Ifeanyi Ubah lost his personal
treasurer, Mr Ikechukwu Odum who is his most trusted aide. He also lost his
personal assistant, Mr Goodness Mathias.
“Another man killed, who was not in the convoy of the
Senator was identified as Onowu Agu-Ukwu Nri. He is said to be a titled chief
in neighbouring Nri community, and had just driven to Enugwu-Ukwu to drop
someone who visited him, who would be traveling to Lagos this morning, and he
was unlucky to be at that point at the time when Senator Ubah was going to be
attacked.
“He was driving a big jeep, so the assassins may have
thought he was in the same convoy with the senator, and he was gunned down.”
Other people identified to have been killed were six Mobile
policemen who were riding in the convoy of the Senator, and a driver, who was
said to be driving one of Ubah’s cars.
The attack has been described as an assassination attempt on
the senator, as eyewitnesses said the gunmen targeted every car in his convoy,
especially his security men, and riddled them with bullets.
“In the confusion yesterday, all the cars were just jamming
each other. Since the vehicle the senator was driving in was a bullet proof
car, his driver managed to manoeuver out of the damaged cars and drove away,
even as it was being shot,” the source narrated.
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