By Clems Iheme, and C Collins.
Two border communities in Anambra and Imo states: Lilu, Ihiala Local Government Area and Orsuihiteukwa, Orsu Local Government respectively have raised the alarm over recent killings in their communities.
The outcry led by youths of these neighboring communities specifically fingered a location known as ‘Murder Valley’ by the gunmen as the main black spot and operational base of the murderous gangsters operating in the area.
The original name of the black spot was Udeke but renamed Murder Valley by the criminals.
The Orsuihiteukwa Youths/the young-at-heart in the community led by Orsuihiteukwa Gadinma Ozo took select team of local/foreign based journalists, historians, anthropologists and documentarians to see things for themselves at the Murder Valley.
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma
While addressing the visitors, the spokesperson for the community who gave his name simply as “Chukwuebuka”, noted that he is keeping his full name under cover for obvious security reasons.
Chukwuebuka, like Lilu in Ihiala Council of Anambra State, lamented that “it was indeed doubtful if the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma and the State Assembly still recognized Orsuihiteukwa and other neighbouring communities now daily soaked in blood as part of Imo State.”
He bemoaned the sad situation where the historical popular Eke Ututu market which hitherto draw patrons from all corners of the world become a wild forest in the last six years when insurgency started in the area.
Barrister Chukwuebuka told the visitors that the two villages of Orsu and Uda were the worst hit as almost the entire residents were driven out of their ancestral abode.
