Breaking: Tension As Soldiers Invade Abia Few Hours To Elections
According to report, Soldiers from 144 Battalion in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State invaded the Ukpakiri and Umuezugbe communities in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state in search of killers of their colleague.
MouthpieceNG learnt that the soldiers had invaded the community to fish out the killer of their colleagues.
Sources told MouthpieceNG that the soldier was killed near a military outpost located between Ukpakiri and Umuezugbe communities along the ever busy Aba-Ikot Ekpene Expressway.
It was learnt that the soldier, who was not on duty at the outpost, had apparently gone out to attend to his needs but the hoodlums who operated on a Motorbike, thinking he was armed, fired shot at him with the intention of running away with his gun.
The shooting of the soldier was said to have attracted his colleagues who tried to save him but bled to death.
It was gathered that the soldiers angered by the situation, cordoned off the area including the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Expressway where movement of vehicles, motorcycles and persons were obstructed.
Sources within the community said that the soldiers who called for reinforcement later invaded the Umuezugbe and Ukpakiri communities in an attempt to get the perpetrators.
According to the sources, the invasion of the soldiers in the two communities with subsequent massive arrest of members of the communities led to massive movement of people from the communities to a safer place.