Residents of Ebonyi State were left in horror as s member of the South-east security outfit, known as EbubeAgu, was shot dead in his house by unknown gunmen.
Sources said the victim, Sunday Nwafor, 30, was not only shot dead but also beheaded by his assailants.
Nwafor was reportedly shot dead in his sleep by the assailants, who stormed his house, before dragging the body out of his room and beheaded him.
His killers took his head away.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, confirmed the incident, saying: “According to the DPO of Ikwo Police Division, some gunmen went to the house of one Sunday Nwafor. He was about 30 years old and a member of the Ebubeagu security outfit. The gunmen broke into his room while he was asleep and shot him dead. They dragged the body outside and beheaded him.
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“His wife, who spoke to the police, said before she heard a gunshot, she overheard one of the hoodlums telling her husband that he left them in the bush and came back home to enjoy himself by collecting N30,000 monthly from the government.
“Two of the suspects have been arrested; investigation is ongoing. This act is barbaric and inhumane. This is coming barely two weeks after we recorded the other EbubeAgu incident, in which someone was also killed in this form and half burnt.
“The Commissioner of Police condemns in totality this kind of killing and has vowed to do everything within the ambit of the law to ensure that the remaining perpetrators are brought to book.”
EbubeAgu is the security outfit crested by the five South-east states in the wake of invasion by killer herdsmen to secure the region. However, it has not achieved much because of alleged failure of the governors in the region to fund it.
