The Police in Imo say they has begun a manhunt for the hoodlums that abducted and beheaded the the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of the state, Chris Ohizu.
In a statement issued on Monday and signed by the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said the command had raised a team of officers to apprehend the suspects.
Ohizu was kidnapped on Friday alongside two others after his country home at Imoko community, Arondizuogu, was burnt by hoodlums.
He was killed after his abductors reportedly received N6m as ransom.
The perpetrators released a video clips of his beheading online on Sunday where they insisted that there would be no election in the country.
The police spokesman said they have commenced investigation into the gastardly act.
He noted that the command was on the trail of the hoodlums before the “obscene video” surfaced on the Internet.
Okoye urged the public to assist the police with credible information and report any clandestine activities or suspicious person(s) to the nearest police station.
The statement read in part, “The Imo State Police Command is aware of the iniquitous and obscene video that has gone viral on social media where a man, suspected to be the abducted Ideato North LGA sole administrator, was seen kneeling and his hands tied while undergoing inhuman act. He was subsequently killed by suspected members of the Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network.”
