An Imo Traditional Monarch Eze Paul Ogbu has been found dead after he was kidnapped by gunmen on the 12th of December 2021 by unidentified gunmen who invaded two communities in Okigwe.
The gunman also burnt the palaces before abducting Acho Ndukwe, the traditional ruler of Amagu Ihube, who was rescued on Monday, December 13, after security operatives raided the kidnappers’ den.
After he was rescued, he revealed that Eze Ogbu was killed in his presence. Security operatives then returned to the kidnappers’ den and found Eze Ogbu’s body where it was dumped in a ditch.
Ugonna Ogbu, an ex-beauty queen and daughter of the victim who cried out on social media after her father, Eze Paul Ogbu was abducted, has cried out on social media after he was found dead.
After the abduction, Ugonna whose father is the traditional ruler of Ihitte Ihube community in Okigwe, took to social media to show her home and her father’s car that were burnt down. She revealed that all important documents and certificates belonging to her and her siblings were burnt when her father’s Palace was set ablaze
She added that she is more interested in finding her father who was taken hostage by the gunmen.
Unfortunately, her father was murdered.
“It’s over,” Ugonna Ogbu wrote alongside crying face emoji after her father was confirmed dead.
