Suspected ESN/IPOB men burn down widow’s house in Ebonyi State

Hoodlums suspected to be members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN)/the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have burnt down the house of a 60-year-old widow, Mrs. Monica Nweke, in Ebonyi State.

Mrs. Nweke, along with her two daughters and two grandchildren, were asleep when the arsonists set her building ablaze at about 1.30 am on Tuesday.

According to a community source who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, the assailants set the building on fire and waited until the inferno had gutted all the valuables therein before leaving the scene.

The widow, her two daughters, and grandchildren managed to escape death through the back door as the inferno raged on.

Mrs. Nweke is the mother of Samson Nweke, the Ebonyi Chapter Chairman of the Human Rights, Access, and Defenders (HURIDE) group.

Nweke himself narrowly escaped death on the day of the 2023 governorship election in his hometown when hoodlums attacked his polling unit.

However, his elder brother, Peter, was beaten to a coma and rushed to the hospital where he later died.

Since then, Nweke has been on the run after being declared wanted by the police over his brother’s death.

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