Stories by Chidi Nkwopara

It is no longer news that an Obowo-born Claretian priest of the Catholic Church, Rev. Fr. Dr. Dennis Osuagwu, was  murdered by yet-to-be identified assassins.

Unable to bear the loss, as well as the likelihood that their own lives were not secure, members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, of the institution, trooped into the streets of Owerri, to protest the murder of their colleague, Rev. Fr. Osuagwu.

The protesting lecturers called for justice over what they termed “the gruesome murder” of their colleague, as well as to intimate the state government of the heightening insecurity at Umuagwo, which is harbouring the institution and its adjoining communities.

Addressing the obviously angry lecturers, the Deputy Chief of Staff (Administration), Government House, Owerri, Mr. Uju Chima, who spoke on behalf of Governor Rochas Okorocha, said the death of Fr. Dennis Osuagwu was not only painful to the Polytechnic community, but also to the state government.