At about 6.30hrs of today, 6th August 2017. I got a
distress call that gunmen had invaded St. philip Catholic church Amakwa in
Ozubulu, Ekwusigo LGA while the mass was going on and shot at worshipers.
Police teams along
with other sister security agencies under my direct supervision were deployed
to the scene to rescue the worshippers.
Victims were evacuated to the hospital, and the hospital
authority has confirmed 11 persons dead, and 18 injured as a result of the
shooting.
The Executive governor of the state visited the scene
while I was there, and assured the injured persons of his support in offsetting
the medical bills and that the full wrath of law will be visited on the
perpetrators.
The Command under my watch will leave no stone unturned
in locating and prosecuting those behind the massacre of innocent worshippers.
The Command assures Ndi Anambra and the general public
that the Police is on top of the situation and will locate and prosecute the
perpetrators soon.
Intelligence
report/Preliminary investigation shows that the incident is as a result of a
feud between two individuals who are from the community but who live outside
Nigeria, one of the individual we learnt, built the church where the incident
occurred. It is definitely not a terrorist attack in the mould of boko haram or
fulani herdsmen attack.
The Command views this dastardly act as sacrilegious but
for now considers it still premature to disclose the identities of those
involved in the act.
The Command will brief the public after investigation is
concluded.
I commiserate with all those who lost their loved ones
from this unfortunate incident and pledge that the command would not rest on
its oars until the perpetrators are apprehended to face justice.
I want to also encourage Ndi Anambra to be vigilant and
to report strange and suspicious movement of persons and actions in their
locality to the security agencies promptly, please.
Thanks and God
bless.
CP GARBA BABA UMAR psc
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ANAMBRA STATE
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