Beheaded Imo LG Boss, Chris Ohizu | Suspected IPOB Members, ESN Responsible - Imo Police Claim, Begin Search For Suspects

The Imo State Police Command, having confirmed the beheading of the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of the state, Chris Ohizu, has said that the criminal act was carried out by suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN).

Ohizu was kidnapped on Friday alongside two others after his country home at Imoko community, 

The LG Boss was killed after his abductors reportedly received ₦6m as ransom.

Confirming the incident, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, in a statement on Monday, said the command had raised a team of officers to clamp down on the suspects.

The statement read in part, “The Imo State Police Command is aware of the iniquitous and obscene video that has gone viral on social media where a man, suspected to be the abducted Ideato North LGA sole administrator, was seen kneeling and his hands tied while undergoing inhuman act. He was subsequently killed by suspected members of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network.”

The police spokesman said an investigation had begun into the abduction and murder of the victim.

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He noted that the command was on the trail of the hoodlums before the “obscene video” surfaced on the Internet.

Okoye urged the public to assist the police with credible information and report any clandestine activities or suspicious person(s) to the nearest police station.