Police officers of the Imo state police command has apprehended 4 individuals over the alleged assassination of Kinsly Nkemka, a former member of the Imo state house of assembly.
According to Vanguard, Andrew Enwerem, the Imo state police image maker broke the news of the killing to the press in Owerri, affirming that 4 persons were being quizzed by the police to assertain their involvement or innocence in the death of the Umunoha-born ex-legislator
“It is true that Kingsley Nkemka was assassinated last Tuesday (September 9, 2014). The police swung into action to unravel the mystery surrounding the heinous murder. As I am talking with you now, four suspects are with the police undergoing interrogation. The Command will stop at nothing to expose and prosecute those who killed the young man.”
Nkemka, before his death nursed ambitions to run for the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal constituency on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) and served as an aide to Benjamin Uwajumogu, the speaker of the Imo state house of assembly.
Media aide to Uwajumogu, Emeka Ahaneku while reacting to the death of Nkemka said: “He had a brief stop-over at a popular T-Junction at Ohaohia Mbieri, Mbaitoli local government area, to confer with one of his facilitators, who had earlier called him on phone around 8 or 9pm before the sad incident,”
In his own words, the speaker of the house when Nkemka was a serving lawmaker, Maxwell Duru said: “I was shocked when I heard that he had been killed by yet-to-be identified gunmen. Right now, I do not have personal details to know whether it was a case of assassination or not.”
