Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia says unknown gunmen’s violent attacks on security agencies and government facilities indicate terrorist activities in the South-East.
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia says unknown gunmen’s violent attacks on security agencies and government facilities indicate terrorist activities in the South-East.
The region has witnessed an orgy of violence with targetted attacks on police stations, police officers, and facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
On Sunday, Ahmed Gulak, an All Progressive Congress chieftain, was brutally murdered in Imo on his way to the airport.
Asked if the spate of attacks on government facilities and security agents could be termed terrorism on Channels TV on Sunday, Mr Ikpeazu said the incessant violence in the South-East looked like terrorism because it is “designed to undermine the state.”
“I don’t think it is far from it. Because any situation that tends to attack institutions of civil authority, the court, INEC, police formations, military locations is designed to undermine the state,” said the governor.
Mr Ikpeazu, however, added that the South-East governors were collaborating to tackle the unknown gunmen’s menace.
“So that is what it is. But all hands are on deck to deploy every resource available to us, talking about the governors of the South-East, to ensure that we protect our people and enable them to go about their businesses,” he further explained.
