Wife of the traditional ruler of Abba- Igogoro in Igbo Eze North Local
Government Area of Enugu State, Igwe Omale Nwogbo, Adiza, has been
kidnapped by unknown persons who invaded her home. The woman was
kidnapped days after some armed men invaded the palace and inflicted
machete cuts on her husband before shooting at three other persons with
him in his palace at about 8pm.
According to police sources, the
traditional ruler was meeting with some people in his Igogoro palace
when the gunmen struck and reportedly shot one Joshua Urama at the back
while Igwe Ogbo himself, Emmanuel Tobechukwu Idoko and Sunday Ogbo
sustained injuries on their heads and faces. Igwe Ogbo was said to have
been reportedly given three machete cuts on his head.
The attack
took place at a time members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party,
PDP, in the local government were holding the Ward Congress at Enugu
Ezike to elect delegates for the local government congress to elect
chairmanship candidates for the local government elections scheduled for
later in the year.
Igwe Ogbo and the other victims, who sustained
serious bullet wounds, were rushed to the Bishop Shanahan Hospital
Annex in Enugu Ezike, the council headquarters for urgent medical
attention. However, Adiza, 85, was abducted by some people who
reportedly claimed to have come from the neighbouring Isugwu community,
exactly four days after her husband was attacked in his palace.
The police were still trying the unravel the reasons behind the attack on Ogbo when his wife was abducted.
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