Police Operatives have discovered the remains of Late Justice Azunda, a protocol officer to the immediate past Chief of Staff, Rivers State Government House, Chief Engr Chukwuemeka Woke, who was reportedly abducted in his home town, at Isiodu Community in Emohua Local Government Area of the State on June 4th.
The operatives of the Rivers state police command led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Rumuji Divisional Police Station, CSP Ofuna in collaboration with members of the Emohua LGA Vigilante Services (EMOVIS), exhumed the decomposing corpse from a shallow grave at the Elibrada section of the forest between Emohua LGA and Ogbodo-Isiokpo in Ikwerre LGA
The recovery was made after the apprehension of a member of the already dislodged criminal gang headed by late Nwodi. The suspect who is currently undergoing interrogation confessed that Mr. Justice was killed after his abduction and buried in a shallow grave in the a forest.
The suspect took the police to their camp in a boundary forest between Elibrada community in Emohua LGA and Ogbodo-Isiokpo .community in Ikwerre local government area where Nwodi and his criminal gang held their victims hostage, very close to the shallow grave where Justice Azunda’s remains was buried.
Recall that late Justice Azunda was kidnapped by the late notorious kidnapper, Nwodi Onuigwe and his gang in Isiodu community where Mr. Azunda and others were holding a meeting and shot sporadically before taking him away with a motorcycle. Justice Azunda’s abduction led to the review of the bounty placed on Nwodi and his gang by the chairman of Emohua LGA, Dr. Chidi Lloyd from One Million to Two Million Naira and a week after the bounty was reviewed the Rivers State Police Command confirmed the killing of the wanted Nwodi and three other members of his gang including a female by a special crack team who trailed the criminal gang to Ogoloma community in Okirika LGA.
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