Abducted orderly to ex-Imo speaker found dead inside bush

Tamarauemi Ebimini

A police orderly to a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chiji Collins, has been found dead.

The victim, identified as Charles, an inspector, was abducted by unidentified gunmen last month alongside a driver in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state.

He and the yet-to-be-identified driver were reportedly driving in a Hilux Utility Vehicle when they were blocked by the attackers, who abducted them into a nearby bush.

But Mr Charles was found dead inside a bush in Oguta, a neighbouring local government area in the state, on Thursday,

The driver was earlier found dead in the same area while the search for Mr Charles continued.

Sources from the police in the state said the body of the deceased officer had already decomposed upon discovery in the bush

When contacted on Friday, the police spokesperson in Imo State, Henry Okoye, confirmed the incident.

Mr Okoye, an assistant superintendent of police, said the Commissioner of Police in the state, Ahmed Barde, had commissioned a team of police investigators to track down the killers.

The police spokesperson assured that the police in the state would ensure that the officer’s killers were prosecuted in line with the law.