By Uzo Ugwunze :
The spiritual leader of the Igbo nation and Ogilisi Igbo, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka has placed a curse on those who carried out the attack on the convoy of the Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial zone, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah.
Ezeonwuka said that the gods of Igbo land and spirits of the Igbo ancestors would surely hunt down the assassins.
He also placed the same curse on kidnappers, assassins and other criminals who have been terrorizing the people in various parts of Igbo land.
In a press statement made available to the public, Ezeonwuka vehemently condemned the assassination attempt, describing it as a barbaric act which is never acceptable to humanity in general and in Igbo land in particular.
“Let me join millions of well-meaning Nigerians in condemning the assassination attempt made against Senator Ifeanyi Ubah at Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu by armed men.
“It resulted in the sudden and unnatural deaths of Senator Ubah’s personal assistants, security aides and the Onowu of Nri community who was hit by the assassins’ bullet when he came to drop off his visitor.’’
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) BOT member warned those who have taken to the killing of their fellow Igbo brothers as their job to get ready to face more catastrophic way of death.
“Vultures shall eat up their dead bodies because God and nature made it clear that those who kill will die in a more horrible manner.
“Those killing others hoping to go scot free are deceiving themselves because security agents will go after them.
“The wrath of God who created humanity and nature is after them too just as the wrath of gods of the land and the spirit of the ancestors is equally after them.
“The high rate of killings in Igbo land by Ndigbo themselves have turned Ndigbo into a laughing stock to the outside world.
“The respect that Ndigbo command from the outside World as people who love themselves, people who are their brothers’ keepers, people who are educated and hardworking is being eroded by negative activities of killings being perpetrated by violent criminals,” said Ezeonwuka.
The spiritual leader, however, commiserated with the families of the victims of the attack and called on security operatives to work hard and fish out the attackers so as to deal with them according to law.
