Former Imo State governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has narrated how one of his police escorts was killed by gunmen.
According to him, a policeman attached to him was gunned down along the Okigwe-Enugu Expressway.
He made the disclosure on Sunday at the country home of Senator Samuel Anyanwu, gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11 Imo State governorship election.
He disclosed that the slain policeman was attached to the governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, who directed his armed security operatives to accompany him (Okorocha) to the interment of the mother of Chief Emeka Ihedioha, Dame Dorothy Ihedioha, on Friday.
He said, “I am angry. I am very angry because I spent two days in Enugu and nothing happened to me but it is in my own state that the convoy released to me by the governor of Enugu State, a very good man, to attend the burial ceremony of Ihedioha’s mother at Mbaise that was attacked and one policeman killed.”
According to him, he had attended the burial of Mrs Ken Nnamani in Enugu and Governor Mbah directed his police operatives to accompany him to Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise, in Imo State for Dame Ihedioha’s burial.
He explained that after burial event, he had returned to his Owerri residence while the operatives were attacked on their way back to Enugu state.
