The human Rights Writers Association has asked the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, to step down from the state’s governorship race, over the killing of five policemen and a couple by unknown gunmen on Friday.
The gunmen also killed a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu, who owned a shop beside the scene of the crime.
HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement on Saturday, while condemning the killings of the policemen, asked the Imo State governor to announce his withdrawal from the governorship race and a second term in office
Onwubiko also noted the governor’s failure to engage in constructive dialogue with restive youths in the state, while urging the governor to set up a reconciliation commission and pay compensations to the families of the affected victims.
