A Non-Governmental Organisation, Odimma Orsu Initiative, has disclosed that many lives lost to terrorism, bloodbaths, massacres, destruction and other forms of social vices for more than four years in Orsu local government area in Imo State.
Odimma Orsu Initiative is the ensemble of Orsu Stakeholders comprising Businessmen, Professionals, Community Leaders and Traditional Rulers from the Orsu Local Government coming together to address the problem of insecurity and provide a credible platform for cooperation and partnership with government and the security agencies to defeat the criminals, disentangle the people from their false propaganda and restore normalcy to the land.
The Chairman of the Group, High Chief Chukwudi Okparaku, who spoke to newsmen on Monday in Lagos, said all the social vices were perpetrated by criminal elements identifying themselves as members of IPOB/ESN.
Okparaku narrated that the current aggravated wave of insecurity across various communities in Orsu LGA began sometime in 2021 with the arrival of IPOB/ESN kingpin Ikonso and his goons whose earlier plans to settle at Obigbo were stiffly resisted by the Rivers State government.
He noted that they were hosted by an indigene of Amaebu who was a close ally of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu, and the owner of a white garment church in Amannachi.
The Group Leader further explained that they promptly found a haven within the recesses of Udeke Valley in Udah where Mike Ahize had a fish farm.
“At a point, the once peaceful Orsu LGA became a shadow of itself with a complete breakdown of law and order and the loss of many lives.”
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