– Ex-LGA Chairman, Val Mbamara, Onumonu’s Country Homes Still Occupied By Hoodlums
Barely two weeks after the matchet attacks that left over 18 persons dead in Orsu LGA, Orsu people have initiated a fight-back and launched a manhunt for the killers of their kinsmen.
The hunt for the invaders of their community started yielding fruit over the weekend with the capture and killing of two suspected members of the killer-gang that attacked Orsu, one of which is a notorious hoodlum popularly known as “Ashavin” who incidentally is from Amaebu in the same Orsu LGA.
While Orsu people are committed to recovering their homeland from bandits, there still remains a lot of work to be done to ensure sustainable peace and stability.
Sequel to the matchet attacks that killed over 18 persons, many more persons have fled home and abandoned Orsu.
Our investigation reveals that businesses are shut, schools, churches and all the markets including the popular Eke Ututu market have all closed down due to the terrorist activities of these hoodlums.
An impeccable local source who craved anonymity told this platform that one of the worst hit communities in Orsu is the Edenta community in Awo-Idemili where even teachers of primary schools were forced to flee the community as the hoodlums razed the primary school.
“Edenta is easily the richest community in Orsu LGA but has largely been taken over by hoodlums. Community leaders like Chief Val Mbamara and Iyke Onumonu, both of who are from Edenta and presently overseas, may not have safe access to their homes for some time as these hoodlums have literally taken over their properties”.
Lamenting the present state of Orsu, Chibuzo Emenike (not real name) said: “If you are travelling from Owerri to Orsu; if you pass Banana Junction and Ihioma Junction, you will feel the bustling energy and liveliness of a thriving community of people. Immediately you get to Amannachi, everything changes, even the air you breathe becomes thicker. At the same time, a feeling of apprehension and foreboding begins to weigh down on you. You begin to travel on lonely and deserted roads. All these tell the story of the decimation of a people, their culture and homeland”.
He called on the Imo state government to take the war to the bandits and terror elements that have denied Orsu people their right to peaceful existence.
“No matter what has been done so far, nothing is enough until Orsu is fully reclaimed from the brink of total annihilation. If Orsu is not sanitized, all the communities surrounding it, whether in Oru West or Oru East, will as well not have any sustainable peace.
As such, government and security forces must be proactive and decisive, if the war on terror must be won”, Emenike stressed.
