Tragedy: Three Murdered following Igbo, Hausa clash in Imo state

Three individuals have been murdered after a conflict amongst Igbo and Hausas in Imo state

The police charge in Imo state has said that three individuals have been murdered after a between ethnic erupt in the state.

As indicated by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), two ladies and a man were killed at Akokwa people group in Ideato Local Government Area on Friday, August 12.

DSP Andrew Enwerem, the police representative who affirmed the occurrence in a talk with NAN on Friday in Owerri, said some others managed wounds. Enwerem clarified that a unidentified man, said to be from the northern piece of Nigeria, had gone crazy and executed a young lady and a lady and from there on slaughtered himself. He said some wronged young people instantly went for response assaults. This he said prompted some different people maintaining different degrees of wounds. As indicated by Enwerem, the report went to the Imo police base camp not long after the episode happened and the magistrate of police conveyed hostile to revolt policemen who halted the occurrence from spreading further. “Reports to police demonstrated that a yet to be distinguished northerner went crazy at Akokwa people group and utilized weapons to assault and slaughter a young lady and a lady and from there on executed himself,” he said.

Enwerem said the issue has been brought under control, adding that regularity has come back to the zone. A witness had told newsmen that the young lady slaughtered was peddling snacks when the northerner all of a sudden pursued her till she hurried to an elderly lady for insurance.

In the mean time, an online networking war is seething amongst Igbo and Hausa speaking Nigerians over remarks credited to Emir Sanusi that Hausa people group in Kano have no resentment against Igbo inhabitants in the state. Emir Sanusi on Monday, July 11, told the Abia state chamber of boss who paid him a graciousness visit at his royal residence in Kano that Hausas have for a considerable length of time been obliging the Igbos without resentment, ill will and antipathy. The Emir said every one of the false impressions, hostility and malevolence between the Hausa and Igbos were the workmanship of ‘riffraff rousers’, whose aim was to bring about alienation in a cosmopolitan city. In any case, Sanusi’s account about the genial relationship amongst Igbos and Housas has created a reaction from Igbos who blamed the Emir for filling the abuse of Igbos in the north.

In any case, Nigerians from the northern part of the nation have impacted the Igbos for assaulting the emir, prompting an online networking war.