/CHIEF IKE BEN ONYECHERE, FORMER ASSISTANT TO THE EX-VICE PRESIDENT DR ALEX EKWUEME ASSASINATED IN OWERRI IMO STATE

CHIEF IKE BEN ONYECHERE, FORMER ASSISTANT TO THE EX-VICE PRESIDENT DR ALEX EKWUEME ASSASINATED IN OWERRI IMO STATE

Chief Ike Ben Onyechere, ex Assistant to the former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, has been assassinated in Owerri, the Imo State capital. His personal driver was also shot in the legs when he tried to put up a resistance.  

He was alleged to have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen numbering about five at about 8pm on January, 29, 2017 after shopping at Maris Supermarket in Ikenegbu, Owerri. Chief Onyechere’s dead body was found the following day on a street in Ikenegbu with multiple bullets wounds.

Mr Ben Ike Onyechere was a former Special Assistant to Ex-Governor Orji Uzo Kalu, former Media Adviser to the ex-Governor of Abia, Chief Theodore Orji and was the former National Publicity Secretary of the Progressive Peoples’ Alliance (PPA) a Political Party in Nigeria.

Chief Onyechere also served as the General Manager of Imo State Government owned ADAPALM Ltd in Ohaji LGA.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Enwerem confirmed the incident, said those involved will be apprehended.

Just last week in the same Owerri, the capital Imo State, a notorious kidnapper and armed robber, Mr Vampire Henry Chibueze in a broad daylight escaped from the premises of the State High Court in Owerri.

Mr Vampire Chibueze’s boys reportedly stormed the court premises in commando style and whisked him away after shooting sporadically into the air to scare away people.  It was further gathered that other prison inmates numbering over thirty used the opportunity provided by  Mr Chibueze and his boys to escape from the court premises.