Alleged Uli killings : Group urges Soludo to beef up security at boundary communities 

By Cyprian Ebele, Onitsha

Irked by incessant attacks on lives and properties at Anambra  State boundary communities with the latest being Uli community, Ihiala Local Government Area, where unknown gunmen allegedly killed four people.

It was gathered that the victims included: a food vendor, first year student of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Uli, and two others.

The governor, Chukwuma Soludo has been urged to beef up security at those communities.

Investigation revealed that the victims were killed by unknown gunmen suspected to have come from a neighbouring Imo state, who started shooting at the students inside the University indiscriminately.

The national chairman of Human Dignity Restoration Association, HDRA, Jude Achebe, who reacted to the development lamented that those killed were innocent citizens.

Gov. Otu’s wife,  Eyoanwan supports training of 6000 girls on technical skills in C’River

“I urge Governor Soludo to beef up security at those boundary communities in the state because those living there are at their own risk, if there is no security the criminals will continue to attack. 

“A food vendor, first year student and two others who met their untimely death in the hands of these unknown gunmen wouldn’t have been killed if the security at Uli, that is a boundary town to Imo state, was beefed up.

“They were killed last Wednesday, which was not Monday sit-at-home, on every Monday sit-at-home the area is always deserted over fear of unknown gunmen attacking innocent citizens. Soludo should come to the rescue of the University community to protect the lives of the students most of whom do not hail from there.

“If the boundaries are not guarded the whole security exercise will be useless as most of the criminals come from outside the state and after operation they leave as they came. Uli is a stone throw to Imo state and the students of the University now live in perpetual fear of uncertainty following constant attacks on their campus,” he lamented.

“The natives of Uli are not left out as they are also affected in the attacks. Governor Soludo as a one time student knows that the students will not concentrate on their studies in the face of this attack.

“I was told that nobody challenges these men of the underworld when they operate because they have more sophisticated weapons, military or assault rifles, not pump action guns. 

“No parent will like to lose his child in his school of study, I therefore plead to Governor Soludo to immediately rise to the occasion by beefing up security at Uli and other boundary communities in the state,” the activist pleaded.