Shocked by the gory sight of corpses floating on the Ezu
River in Amansea community on the Anambra State border with Enugu State,
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has announced N5million reward to any
person who could give useful information that could help in getting at
those behind the corpses found floating on the river.
Governor Obi, who announced the financial reward yesterday when
he went to see the floating corpses, also declared water from the Ezu River
dangerous to the health and warned people to desist from making use of the
water till further notice.
The governor, who was forced to cut short his trip overseas
where he had gone to take part in former Secretary General of Commonwealth,
Chief Emeka Anyaoku’s 80th birthday ceremony, decried the number of corpses
floating on the river and directed the security agencies, especially the
police, to swing into action and make sure that the circumstances that led to
the corpses were unravelled and the perpetrators brought to book.
He said that he had already contacted his Enugu State
counterpart and assured that the government of the two states would stop at
nothing in making sure that whatever led to their death was unravelled.
“Human life is sacred and people should respect the sanctity of
human life, and such barbaric action as we have seen concerning these corpses
here should not be condoned in a decent society in this time and age”, the
visibly worried Governor Obi stated.
The governor was accompanied on the visit by the state
commissioner of police, Bala Nasarawa. The Commissioner of police Enugu State,
Musa Daura accompanied by a team of policemen from the state police command had
also visited the scene of the gory sight on Ezu River. He promised that the
command would join forces with the Anambra State police command to ensure that
they unravel the circumstances that led to the floating corpses.
Residents of the Amansea community were jolted on Saturday
morning when they woke up to behold many corpses floating on the Ezu River.
Though the Anambra State police command yesterday said it had counted 18
corpses floating on the river, some eyes witnesses, however, said they were
more than 40 and that they were all males. Most of the corpses wore only pants
and shorts.
The identities of the dead bodies are yet to the
known.
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