Chairman of Obosi Land Management Council, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mr. Ezeugo Zion has narrated how cultists, numbering about 30, went to his office and allegedly beat him during which time he sustained some machete cuts on his skull.
The suspected cultists were said to have also injured four other persons who were with Zion at the time of the attack even as they threw Obosi community into pandemonium in their attempt to also frustrate the upcoming Ofala festival of His Royal Highness, Igwe Chidubem Iweka and possibly dethrone him.
Narrating the incident to newsmen on his hospital bed, Zion said: “Just because I am not their member and I was picked as the chairman of Obosi Land Management Council, the cultists numbering about 30, who have continued to terrorize our community, stormed my office to kill me and they succeeded in cutting my head with a machete.”
Zion claimed that the hoodlums where sent by a community leader, adding that two of the cultists were apprehended with the assistant of the local vigilante group led by one Arthur Ilongwu and the Special Anti-Cult Squad.
“God was so kind, they could not kill me because my land committee members prevented those that were butchering me and four of them were equally injured in the process. I managed to call the police.” [myad]
