Weeks after the owners of Young Shall Grow Transport
escaped the assassins bullets in :Lagos, another transporter and owner of GUO
Motors, Chief GUO Okeke on Tuesday
evening escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen suspected to be hired
assassins attacked his car.
It was gathered that the gunmen, numbering four, in a bid
to get rid of Okeke who has been on the hem of security in Anambra, ambushed
one of his private cars at his residence in Onitsha but unfortunately
found out that the man was not in the car.
Speaking on the incident Chief Okeke
said that the attack happened at about 6.45pm yesterday . His driver, who was
sent on an errand with the car was attacked on his way back by a group of
gunmen in a Siena car, who trailed him to the GRA gate II and opened fire on
the vehicle.
“We began to hear terrifying gun
shots in front of the gate, the assailants trailed the car, thinking I was
inside. They first opened fire at the windscreen, directing it to the front
seat where they thought a security man was sitting, they shattered the
windscreen, shot at the driver but bullets miraculously missed his fore head
but scratched through his head and the bullets also hit his hand. They also
shattered the tyres of the vehicle and riddled the whole vehicle with over 60
bullets. The scanario lasted for about five minutes.
The assailants came purposely to
eliminate me because within the last few months, I have been receiving threats
from various criminal gangs, ordering me to leave Onitsha and Anambra State,”
he said.
He further expressed fear that the
assailants may be the same gang of assassins that specialised in assassinating
and kidnapping people in Anambra State especially within the commercial
city of Onitsha, adding that they may be responsible for the assassination of
one Emeka at Awka road, Onitsha early last month.
The Anambra State Police Public
Relations Officer, PPRO, (DSP) Emeka Chukwuemeka confirmed the incident and
said that the command has spread its dragnet to arrest the fleeing members of
the gang while calling on the residents of the area to give police necessary
information that could lead to their arrest.
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