A police officer has been killed following an attack on the convoy of the former governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha.
Okorocha’s convoy was attacked on Friday at the Ihube community on Okigwe-Enugu expressway, he revealed on Sunday.
Okorocha, who governed the state between 2011 and 2019, said that the cop killed was one of the policemen deployed from the state Government House to take him to the burial ceremony of the mother of the immediate past governor of Imo State Emeka Ihedioha.
Okorocha spoke at Amaimo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state, at the birthday anniversary celebration of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the November 11 governorship election in Imo, Samuel Anyanwu.
He said that the killing of the cop was “unfortunate.”
The former governor added that he was returning from Enugu after attending the burial ceremony of the wife of a former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, when his convoy was attacked.
He also said that he was embittered because he was safe in Enugu only to be attacked and a security agent killed in his own state.
He said, “I am angry. I am very angry. I am angry because I spent two days in Enugu and nothing happened to me but it is in my own state that the convoy released to me by the governor of Enugu state (a very good man) to attend the burial ceremony of Ihedioha’s mother at Mbaise that was attacked and one policeman killed.
“What is happening in Imo State makes me angry. Many people who are running to govern Imo State are not capable but I have seen one man who the cap fits. When it is time I will speak.”
PUNCH learnt from one of Okorocha’s aides that two other security agents were kidnapped by the attackers but were released the same day.
