Stephen Ukandu, Umuahia
Uturu Community in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State, has been thrown into pandemonium following the beheading of the LGA Director General of the 2023 campaigns of the Labour Party, Mr Maduka Zachary, popularly known as “Power Zac.”
The late Power Zac was also the Campaign Director of the member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Amobi Ogah.
He was reportedly killed in his house at Uturu on Tuesday night by the yet-to-be-identified attackers who reportedly took away his head after the dastardly act.
Reports said the late LP chieftain and community leader was part of the local security vigilante fighting the rising insecurity Abia North.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abia State, Maureen Chinaka, said she had not been briefed about the incident.
“I’m yet to be briefed. I have no information for now with regard to that. So, I will get back to you when I’m briefed.”
But the Chairman of Labour Party in the state, Mr Ceekay Igara, confirmed the incident to Ikengaonline.
Igara who described the bizarre incident as very sad, said that he spoke with the party’s Chairman in Isuikwuato Local LGA who confirmed it to him.
“I have spoken with the Chairman of our party in the LGA and he confirmed it. He said it might not be unconnected with insecurity because the man was strong in the fight against insecurity and cultism in that region.”
Insecurity has been on the increase around Uturu-Okigwe and Umunneochi as bandits have continued to terrorise both residents and commuters plying the route.
