An 84-year-old community leader in Umudioka village, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ichie Michael Nwobu, has been shot to death by unknown gunmen in his bedroom in the early hours of Sunday, March 2,

His family members had returned from church when they found him lying in a pool of his blood.  It has not been ascertained why the deceased was murdered.

The Secretary of Ndichie Umudioka Obunese, Chief Joseph Nweke, who chaired an emergency meeting after the gruesome murder,  stated that a cross-examination of the lifeless body of the deceased showed that he was st@bbed in his neck and chest.

Nweke also expressed disgust that such a dastardly act had taken place in the community for the first time in the history of the existence of the area.

“The assailants had trailed the victim to his bedroom upstairs, between 7 am and 9 am on the fateful day shortly after his wife and other family members had left for Church and stabbed him many times in his neck and chest before sneaking out of the house.

The development has caused panic and apprehension in the community and we are therefore appealing to the appropriate security agencies to expedite action and fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act and bring them to book.

The assailants had just committed an abomination of the highest order, considering the age of the victim and the brutal manner with which they slashed his throat with either knives or machetes.”

The state police command is yet to comment on the incident.