proeast:
I'm not holding brief for IPOB or ESN, but why would a group that claims to be defending Igboland now turn around to be killing same Igbos?

Does it make sense?

Which people are nationally known for always attacking people in highways, farms and villages??

Dr. Agbalanze lives in Enugu, I believe IPOB operates across the entire SE, so if they're after this noble man, why would they wait until he travels to Anambra before attacking him?

I'm only trying to make sense out of a totally senseless situation.

You're very correct.
If a reason doesn't make sense then there's surely another reason.
You're very correct in your assessment of the situation. It is the same people who assassinated the Aguleri traditional to ruler that did the same assassination today. It is the same fulani led DSS. There aim is to hang it on IPOB and cause internal division in the SE. We must be smart to defeat them.
Why would any Igbo man or IPOB member want to kill a very responsible non-partisan person like the great Dora's husband? It makes no sense until you figure out that such a person's death will generate much uproar by the calculations of an external enemy who want an internal implosion. Our people must counter all their permutations through our traditional means of solving issues.
I will at this juncture blame our political elites for giving those terrorists federal agents the opportunity to penetrate our region. If they had acted early enough in protecting our region against fulani terrorists using the cover of herdsmen to attack our region, there won't have been individual effort at combating them. It was their failure to act both on time and genuinely that led to this. What we need now is a robust solution by forming a state run security outfit controlled by our own political leaders of our region to defend our people. The Nigerian police or army cannot defend or protect us.
ESN remains in the bush while the state run security outfit defends the cities and towns. We must never make the mistake of putting our security in the hands of terrorists. That is what Samuel Ortom of Benue did by collecting all the weapons of his people and today they are the mercy of fulanis. Look at southern Kaduna, it is the defenselessness because they are hoping on being protected by the fulani controlled army. We are smarter than that. Fulanis don't follow the useless Constitution so we are not obligated to follow it.
It's a battle of wits currently. The battle of brawn is coming next year. We can't stop it so we must prepare for it.

We must remember that the late Obadiah Mailafia warned that high profile killings will begin but he didn't state why it was necessary for such killings and how such killings will be explained away. He can't do everything for us. We should be able to figure out the rest for ourselves.
These high profile killings by fulanis is to eliminate important persons that can pose a threat to them through his experience and expertise. The second reason is to blame such killings on one section of the people so as to create internal divisions for whole group. It is the same classical divide and conquer they always use. This sad killing is one of such. Expect more of it unless we fight the DSS agents that are used for such killings.

BKayy:

And which misunderstanding did IPOB have with Dr Akunyili?
What would they gain from killing him?
Does he grant interviews or speak against IPOB?

You see how stupid the Zoo is. They can't even kill those that will link IPOB just hateful killing of innocent progressive Ndigbo

Where was he killed ? In south east .. yesterday a video was posted ,where south east fools where clapping and hailing the unknown gun men

So you see how stupid Igbos can be