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Armed men suspected to be members of a secret cult on Saturday invaded a burial ceremony in Ebenebe, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, killing about 20 persons.

They also desecrated the corpse that was being prepared for burial.

Our correspondent gathered that the burial was that of a suspected leader of a cult group, named Ozo.

It was also gathered that while the corpse of Ozo was lying-in-state in his compound, some suspected cultists arrived at the scene and shot at the mourners while others scampered to safety.

A source said, “My sister was supposed to be at the burial. She and her friends had already prepared to leave Awka for Ebenebe, but the vehicle they booked to take them disappointed them.

“She and her friends were so unhappy, and they decided to go in search of another vehicle that can take them. It was in the course of going to the burial that they received a phone call that everybody at the burial had been dispersed by some gunmen.

https://punchng.com/scores-killed-as-cultists-invade-burial-ceremony-desecrate-corpse-in-anambra-community/

Nothing new. It is SouthEast.

DJ, please you can do better.

Double wahala ,they must have come back for other members of their opponents, just saying ....

And those dooing this will now live in peace.. now the vary dead could not RIP.

I called a friend living at Awka and he notified to me that the death toll have reached 23 .
That it was supremacy battle of who will be in charge of igr collection by two separate gangs with links to aye and baggar confraternity respectively.
Obiano is a weakling
beta male .

abc115:
Armed men suspected to be members of a secret cult on Saturday invaded a burial ceremony in Ebenebe, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, killing about 20 persons.

They also desecrated the corpse that was being prepared for burial.

Our correspondent gathered that the burial was that of a suspected leader of a cult group, named Ozo.

It was also gathered that while the corpse of Ozo was lying-in-state in his compound, some suspected cultists arrived at the scene and shot at the mourners while others scampered to safety.

A source said, “My sister was supposed to be at the burial. She and her friends had already prepared to leave Awka for Ebenebe, but the vehicle they booked to take them disappointed them.

“She and her friends were so unhappy, and they decided to go in search of another vehicle that can take them. It was in the course of going to the burial that they received a phone call that everybody at the burial had been dispersed by some gunmen.

https://punchng.com/scores-killed-as-cultists-invade-burial-ceremony-desecrate-corpse-in-anambra-community/

Evil people

omenkaLives:
Nothing new. It is SouthEast.

DJ, please you can do better.

The security situation in Benue state is worse than the entire southeast. Go cry for your people.

Mpama

Notice they've stopped calling them IPOB/ESN or UGM...it's now 'cultists'! 'Cultists' my black ass! These senseless killings (including the one that happened in Enugu few days ago during their LG elections), are carried out by non-Igbos that have infiltrated the south-east to try and cause a climate of fear and insecurity in the region!

All of a sudden, we've started having targeted mass killings in Igboland! This was hitherto unheard of in the entire south...not just the south-east! We all know the region/religion that is known for senseless mass shootings, targeting innocent individuals in weddings, funerals and market places!

This madness all started after ESn was facing the murderous herdsmen hiding in our forests...and the army/DSS that came in to give the criminals backup. This was followed by Uzodinma and Wike giving the Nigerian army license to enter their states to murder their own civilians in the name of looking for and battling ESN! This in turn was finally followed by the boodstained campaign of calumny by the shadowy hegemonic forces in and around Aso Rock (and their agents on nairaland) to try and paint IPOB/ESN as the 'criminals' responsible for all the senseless murders in the south-east....all aimed at trying to turn the minds of Ndigbo against IPOB/ESN (who had the 'temerity' to challenge the hegemonic order put in place since the late 60s), and to try and justify the 'terrorist' tag they've pinned on the secessionist grp! This chapter of trying to tarnish the image of IPOB/ESN by trying to cause a climate of fear and insecurity in the south-east is where we are at present.....just that they've now decided to call them 'cultists' instead of blaming IPOB/ESN!

ThinkSmarter:
I called a friend living at Awka and he notified to me that the death toll have reached 23 .
That it was supremacy battle of who will be in charge of igr collection by two separate gangs with links to aye and baggar confraternity respectively.
Obiano is a weakling
beta male .

You are LYING!

As you're on here trying to sell a false narrative of 'insecurity in the south-east', you're probably part of the evil network responsible! See your head like 'i called a friend in Awka who filled me in'! I suppose he's privy to the cause of the murders and identity of the murderers? Has he gone to the police to tell them what he knows?

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omenkaLives:
Nothing new. It is SouthEast.

DJ, please you can do better.

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Shut up

How can cultism be thriving in a state capital where there suppose to be uptomost security. Even the innocent will also be affect in this ugly incident. Rip to the death

OssyMalik:
The security situation in Benue state is worse than the entire southeast. Go cry for your people.

Mpama

Your surname sounds quite pleasant. What does it mean?

Cultism on the high rise in the East especially Anambra. If you come here to blame fulani herdsmen or dss i swear i go nak u 2 by 2.

omenkaLives:
Your surname sounds quite pleasant. What does it mean?

good morning darling.
happy Sunday.

leave that guy to be talking nonsense.

Btw I fried plantation for you.
do you like egg sauce?

IGBOSON1:
You are LYING!

As you're on here trying to sell a false narrative of 'insecurity in the south-east', you're probably part of the evil network responsible! See your head like 'i called a friend in Awka who filled me in'! I suppose he's privy to the cause of the murders and identity of the murderers? Has he gone to the police to tell them what he knows?

Be playing an ostrich.
I guess the criminal elements that warranted the formation of the outlawed BakassI boy's during the time of Chinwoke Mbadinuju were also Fulanis lol.
You can only lie to others but you can't lie to your conscience.
See as You are struggling to lie up there.
You don't struggle to tell the truth my friend.
It's high time we brace up, and put all hands on deck to curtail this menace.
Drug addicts, Cultists, armed robbers, kidnappers are potential IPOB/EsN and they are now constituting nuisance in the East.
ESN/IPOB are bad eggs that are destroying the reputation of Ndi Igbo.

Someone should Please give me honest advice here! I have a wedding ceremony to attend in Anambra next Month. Being a Yoruba, and with all this news from SE, What's the preventive measure I should take because the wedding appear to be necessary for me to appear.

ERockson:
Someone should Please give me honest advice here! I have a wedding ceremony to attend in Anambra next Month. Being a Yoruba, and with all this news from SE, What's the preventive measure I should take because the wedding appear to be necessary for me to appear.

Be a man.

ThinkSmarter:
Be playing an ostrich.
I guess the criminal elements that warranted the formation of the outlawed BakassI boy's during the time of Chinwoke Mbadinuju were also Fulanis lol.
You can only lie to others but you can't lie to your conscience.
See as You are struggling to lie up there.
You don't struggle to tell the truth my friend.
It's high time we brace up, and put all hands on deck to curtail this menace.
Drug addicts, Cultists, armed robbers, kidnappers are potential IPOB/EsN and they are now constituting nuisance in the East.
ESN/IPOB are bad eggs that are destroying the reputation of Ndi Igbo.

'Struggling to tell the truth'!? Just what gave you that impression!?

Everyone knows the bakassi boys were a vigilante formed during a time of unprecedented insecurity in the state. This has always been the 'one Nigeria' fools like you prop up....a fcking unitary country where responsibility for security resides with a ill-equipped, ill-motivated, less concerned and sometimes COMPLICIT federal gov't! Yet when a state gov't, hamstrung and struggling to get a handle on the heightened state of insecurity within its borders decides to do something, you open you buccal cavity to criticise! Is forming a vigilante the best option in trying to tackle insecurity in a state? Certainly not! But when there's a near-absence and incapacity of the federal bodies saddled with maintaining law and order in the state, what other option is there? Or do you expect the state governor to just sit down and watch his state crumble under the clutch of criminality? So just WTF is your point?

When there's probable cause to blame the Fulani (both their herdsmen and their brothers in gov't) for insecurity in the south-east, i WILL blame them.....no shaking, and i don't give AF whose ox is gored or who is too PC or too sensitive to handle it! Like wise, when there's probable cause to blame criminals of Igbo extraction, i'll do same!

You really come across as eminently daft! Pray, what studies have you done to determine 'drug addicts, cultists, armed robbers and kidnappers' of Igbo extraction are more as a percentage of their general population than those of say the Yoruba, Edo, Ijaw, and Fulani-Hausa!? No true Igbo would sit down on an open social-media platform such as this to make such a blanket and unproven assertion as the one you make on this thread!

Dude, YES, there's criminality and murder going on in the south-east today! But a nuanced approach to studying the problem would tell you there are certin types of crimes (mass murders where UGM go to parties, funerals, market places and schools to target tens of innocent individuals to murder in cold blood) that have never been known in the past to be linked to ANY ethnicity in the south (not just Ndigbo), hence when, all of a suuden, they start happening with increased frequency and regularity in the south-east, it should give you an idea where it's coming from and who's complicit! All this evil started during the admin' of Buhari....specifically, after ESN was formed and started dealing with the bloodthirsty Fulani herdsmen in our forests! Not even during the time of the bakassi vigilante that you allude to, did we see gunmen going to weddings, funerals, schools and polling booths on election day, to commit mass murder by targeting tens of innocent Individuals for elimination! You now see how silly you look trying to pin all these senseless mass murders on IPOB/ESN!?

Nawa o

Just imagine how human lives are being wasted in the name of cultism!

The irony of it all is that in the next few days the same people will come on Nairaland and elsewhere to accuse other tribes of being cultists. Mtchwwww!