By Chuks Iloegbunam
When news of the terrible development hit the
Awka seat of power early that morning, many scenarios taxed the imagination.
Nothing of the sort had previously happened in Igbo history. There was a
bizarre angle to it, of course, that was of tremendous import: Anambra State,
reputed to be an oasis of safety and security, peace and placidity in
tumultuous Nigeria had taken a vicious bang on the jugular.
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| *Gov Willie Obiano |
Who had done the violent action? To what end?
Since it is often the case that “when it hits, it reverberates,” was the
impunity set to spread? These were some of the questions Governor Willie Obiano
tried to think through while, at the same time, receiving Security and Intelligence
debriefing. Taking little time, the Governor’s convoy negotiated the 48
kilometres from Awka to Ozubulu, and hit the scene of the bloodbath.
Armed with both the truth of what had happened
and the spins sprouting in the social media, Governor Obiano inspected the
carnage inside the St. Philips Catholic Church, Amakwa, Ozubulu. Twelve
congregants whose only “offence” was attending the 6am mass to worship their
God had been brutally massacred in an orgy of gunfire. Eighteen others
sustained gunshot wounds, some of them life threatening.
