The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said that the decomposing, headless bodies found in Abia State indicates the scale of insecurity in the country.
Recall Alex Otti, governor of Abia, while speaking at a media parley on Sunday, said 20 headless bodies and countless human skeletons were found around Lokpanta cattle market in the state.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said the decomposing, headless bodies found in Abia State reflect the scale of insecurity in the country.
The market is located on the Umunneochi axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway.
Reacting to the development in a thread on his official X page on Thursday, Obi described the development as “Barbaric and cruel.”
Obi described the bone-chilling story coming out of Abia State, where over 80 bodies were reportedly recovered around the cattle market, with about 20 headless decomposing bodies as highly unsettling.
He then said that this level of barbarism and extremely cruel acts only reflects how insecure our environment has been and It unearths how insecurity has continued to ravage many parts of the country, taking innocent lives and killing the economy.
He went on to thank the Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, for taking such a bold step against insecurity in the State and described Governor Otti’s efforts as highly commendable.
Obi further recalled facing a similar situation in 2013 as the Governor of Anambra State. He then delved into the story of how he was accompanying President Goodluck Jonathan to an official engagement outside the country when he received the sad report of about 35 decomposing bodies floating on the Ezu River, Anambra.
In his words, “I had to leave everything to rush back to the state to attend to the situation and ensure that order was restored in the vicinity.
“Investigation was immediately commenced, with autopsies conducted, before the Federal Government took over the process and asked the State Government to hand it off.”
Obi further added that the security of lives and property remains the primary duty of any government and the key to any meaningful development.
He then called on governments at all levels to make more efforts to tackle insecurity in the country.
