The lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 2 at the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye has been beheaded.
Okoye, who hailed from Isuofia, the community of Governor Charles Soludo’s community, was kidnapped in Aguata on Sunday.
Okoye’s severed head was mounted at Chisco Park in Amichi community in Nnewi South Local Government Area
Soludo had on Fiday, while presenting the state’s revised budget to the lawmakers, commented on the sad development, saying security operatives were working to rescue the victim.
“I regret that one of you, the member representing the good people of Aguata II Constituency in the House of Assembly (my own representative) – Hon. Okechukwu Okoye, is still in the custody of the kidnappers.
“The security agencies are working very hard and round the clock to secure his freedom. God is on the throne and Anambra will win. Let me leave it at that”, the governor said at the House of Assembly,” he had said.