Uzodinma reacts as bandits burn Ohanaeze president, Obiozor’s home

Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, has condemned the burning of the home of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor by those he described as political bandits.

Gunmen had on Saturday morning razed the country home of Prof Obiozor, at Awo-Omanma in the Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State.

Reacting to the development in a statement personally signed by him, Uzodinma lamented that desperate politician who believe in violence were still carrying out violent acts in bid to achieve their goals.

Uzodinma described the attack on the country home of Prof Obiozor as cowardly and a height of desperation.

He vowed that the government was already working in concert with security agencies to identify and punish the perpetrators.

Obiozor’s house burnt

He bemoaned the incessant resort to violence in settling political differences by some politicians in the state and warned that the government would no longer condone such banditry.

According to him, The time of those who unleash this kind of mayhem in the state is over. We shall hunt them down to face the full weight of the law”.

Uzodinma wondered why the bandits should attack the home of a man who is not a politician but a statesman working for the good of the entire Igbo race.

He said it was shameful that both the sponsors and perpetrators of the violence deployed their malicious attack on an innocent man.

While commiserating with Prof Obiozor on the burning of his home, he assured Imo people that Government will continue to do all within its Constitutional power to protect lives and property in the state.