The truth is that no nation worth its salt would stand idly and watch as a group or groups of people under whatever guise, plunder, ruin, destroy and kill its sources of survival or threaten to bring it down simply because they were agitating against marginalization or because they feel they must take what rightly belongs to them by force.

According to some of them who claim to be leaders of the community, the razing of Igwe’s houses and others were a sort of reprisals for an alleged killing of the five members of the community. Three people in the community namely, Odua Ogum Obidinna, Damian Azuka and Fidelis Imegwu said at Ogwuikpele: “On the night of May 5, 2010, some strange faces believed to be thugs entered the community in a boat.

Crime Guard learnt that the fight degenerated to a stage where each of the parties used broken bottles to carve out huge chunks of flesh from their bodies while blood flowed freely from their deep wounds. At a stage, Bassey, the elderly one who was reportedly bleeding from a deep gush on his neck, went to a nearby bench to rest before continuing with the fight only for him to slump on the bench. He reportedly died in that sitting position.

THE arrest recently at the Murtala Mu-hammed International airport, Ikeja Lagos of one Patrick Ene a drug deportee who had served a jail term for drug offences in far away Afghanistan has been viewed as ‘strange’ by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

IT IS certainly a tragedy shrouded in mystery. For how else can one describe the difficult-to-explain death of three men inside a six-feet deep soak-away tank in Garriki Area of Enugu in Enugu South Local Government Area last weekend.