Ebonyi survivor narrates what transpired after gunmen k!lled 11 in Anambra

A survivor of the recent massacre of Ebonyi indigenes in Ogboji, Anambra State, has narrated how gunmen k!lled at least eleven people and injured many others. Onuoha Godwin, a member of the Ebonyi State Welfare Association in Ogboji, escaped de@th after sustaining gunshot wounds to his hand and stomach. Speaking from his hospital bed, Godwin narrated how armed men invaded their monthly meeting on Monday, June 30, and opened fire indiscriminately. Godwin, who hails from Inyimagu, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, said the attackers struck as the group was about to conclude its general meeting. He said: We used to have our meeting two times a month. That day was our general meeting of Ebonyi State Welfare Association in Ogboji. Towards evening, when we were about closing the meeting, some people carrying guns came in. We thought they were policemen who came for mass arrests. We didnt know they were on a mission to k!ll us. Godwin said the gunmen immediately asked for Augustine Odogwu, Chairman of the Ogboji branch of the association, before ordering everyone to lie down. The first thing they asked was, Who is Augustine Odogwu? Then they ordered everybody to lie down, Godwin recalled. They dragged me up and asked me what meeting we were doing. I told them it was the general meeting of Ebonyi indigenes. They said we were kicking against them, and then they shot me, he said. He added that after repeated threats and gunshots into the air, they forced him to identify Augustine, whom they then executed on the spot. They came to me again and asked me to show them Augustine or they would k!ll me. I pointed at him. They brought him out and shot him right there. Then they shot me again, he said. A writer from Ebonyi State, Nwoba Chika Nwoba also, weighed in on Facebook, insisting that it was not a case of Anambra indigenes attacking Ebonyi people in the state.  Watch a video of a survivor’s account below. The post Ebonyi survivor narrates what transpired after gunmen k!lled 11 in Anambra appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.