Sabinus Ordu, uncle of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers
State has been murdered by unknown persons at his farm in Ubima, Ikwerre local
government area of the state on Monday 8 September.
Ordu, until his death was the Vice Principal of Community
Secondary School, CSS, Aluu in Ikwerre.
According to Mrs Ibim Semenitari, Commissioner for
Information and Communications, although
Governor Amaechi and late Ordu are of
the same grandparent, the governor regards him as his uncle.
Narrating the incident she said when Ordu returned from work
he had his lunch and then left the house on his motorbike to check his traps at
his farm in Ubima but did not return home.
At about 8:00 p.m. a search party set out to find him. They
however found his body dismembered beside a bush path.
The matter has been reported to police.
On whether the family or government read political motive to
the gruesome muurder, Mrs Semenitari said: “The man is the Vice Principal
of a school and a quiet civil servant.
He is not a card carrying member of APC and he is not a contractor. Naturally,
as a governor’s relation he may be sympathetic to the governor’s political
beliefs but nothing more.
“But we are hesitant to think that the gruesome murder is
politically motivated. All fingers point to that fact but we need to be
cautious. This to us is ominous, especially now that the elections are around
the corner,” she said.
“The governor has refused to comment on the murder because
the victim is his relation,” Semenatiri said.
She however said that “the government enjoins the police to
unravel the killers and they should they should be brought to book. This should
not be one such killings that will join the league of unresolved murders and
other heinous crimes in the country,” she stated.
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