There is tension presently in Oruku and Umuode communities in the Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State as both have concluded plans to resume hostilities against each other after years of truce. SaharaReporters learnt that already some of the trouble making residents had distributed AK-47 rifles and General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) to the militants to attack each other at any time.
Oruku community in the Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State was thrown into chaos again on Wednesday morning as a group of militants allegedly burnt 10 houses belonging to another group in the community. Among the houses burnt on Tuesday and early hours of Wednesday was that of the murdered traditional ruler, Igwe Emmanuel Mba; former local government chairman, Hon. Ejike Ani and his younger brother, Agozie Ani. SaharaReporters also gathered that the warring group also shot and killed one man on Christmas Day in his house.
Some gunmen have reportedly attacked Aguikpa community in Nkanu East local government area of Enugu State, killing two persons. Aguikpa is one of the autonomous communities that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi created from crisis ridden Oruku community in an attempt to create peace but later abandoned the community to their fate. The victims were identified as Ikechukwu Nnamani, a former President General of the crisis-torn Oruku community and one Ndubuisi Nnamani, a native of Aguikpa community.
Gunmen have reportedly killed again in the troubled Oruku community in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria. Oruku is in the Nkanu East local government area of the state. The victim is a middle-aged man identified as Mr. Chikodili Ngwu from Ameke village in the community. Ngwu was killed barely three weeks after the President-General of the community's town union, Chief Linus Nwatu, was murdered in cold blood in his house.
Gunmen have shot and killed Mr Chikodili Ngwu from Ameke village in the crisis-torn Oruku community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State. The