Kameh Ogbonna, the media assistant to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, says his principal was able to escape the terror because of the bullet proof car the senator was riding in when the convoy was heavily attacked by gunmen in Anambra on Sunday evening.
Ogbonna made this known in a statement issued shortly after the incident which led to the death of about seven persons who were traveling with the Senator.
“If not for the bullet proof jeep the senator was ridding in, he would have been dead by now,” he stated.
“We were passing Enugwu Ukwu junction when they hit us from all sides and as I speak with you Obum, the special aide to the senator is dead.
“About seven security operatives were hit by the assassins bullet,” he added.
While the police in Anambra have confirmed Sunday night’s attack arrests are yet to made.
The incident took place in Enugwu Ukwu community, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.
DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Anambra who confirmed the attack to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Sunday, described the incident as unfortunate and sad.
Reacting to the incident, the state Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, in a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, condemned in strong terms, the attack on Ubah’s convoy.
He described the attack as the “last ditched-effort of a sinking boat” by criminal elements in the state.
He said his administration was fully determined to wipe out every act of criminality in the state.
He reassured the people that all security agencies were on full alert to fish out the perpetrators of the henious attack who would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Soludo commiserated with the senator and the families of his aides killed as well as the state commissioner of police, for the policemen who also lost their lives.
