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Isinweke, lhitte\/Uboma LGA headquarters stood still yesterday afternoon as unknown gunmen numbering over 12, reportedly stormed Nkwo Ihitte market to disrupt INEC activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to reports gathered by Trumpeta<\/em>, the gunmen invaded the center in Isinweke where Ad-hoc Staff of INEC where busy registering members of the community against the 2023 general election and shot the officer in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They also sent many others scampering for safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the Villagers, Chief Okpegbuo who gave account of their experience;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201dWe had all gathered in the village square in obedience to the directive that we should come out en masse to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot long after we queued, they came in, shot sporadically, and hoarded many into a room with a threat to kill them while others scampered for safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another victim who spoke anonymously disclosed that the INEC man who was beaten with a machete by the unknown gun men struggled to save the big box given to them by INEC as he was shot him on the chest and died on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to him, another fell victim (a young man) whom they apparently felt was trailing as they zoomed off was also shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As at the time of this report, Police was yet to make any statement on the incident that its video had gone viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isinweke, lhitte\/Uboma LGA headquarters stood still yesterday afternoon as unknown gunmen numbering over 12, reportedly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",614,376,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",300,184,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Gunmen-1.jpg",50,31,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35950,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35949\/revisions\/35950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}