Police To Investigate Murder Of Journalist

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Mr Ballah Nasarawa, said on Tuesday that his command would probe the killing of a journalist, Mr Ikechukwu Udendu, killed in Ogidi near Onitsha.

Nasarawa who disclosed this in Onitsha  in a telephone interview  said that the killing of the journalist by hoodlums at the weekend had brought “their activities to its last bus-stop in the state.

“I am deeply worried with the activities of hoodlums in the state; as a matter of personal concern, there would be no hiding place for them in the state anymore,’’ he said.

The late journalist  who was the Editor of the monthly Anambra News Magazine was killed by gunmen on Saturday evening after returning from Onitsha where he went to supervise work on the magazine.

Brother of the murdered journalist, Mr. Chukwulozie Udendu said that, his brother must have ran into the gunmen few kilometres to his residence in Ogidi.

“My junior brother had no disagreement with anybody that could have warranted his gruesome murder. “On the fateful day, precisely last Saturday night, at about 10.20 p.m.; I received an anonymous phone call telling me to go and collect the corpse of my brother at Afor-Nkpor Market. “When we rushed out to the spot we found his lifeless body riddled with bullets,’’ he said.

He said that the family then contacted the local vigilance group, which in turn alerted the Ogidi Police Division.

The police later that day came and took the corpse to the Iyi-Enu Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.