Rotimi Amaechi’s uncle murdered

Sabinus Ordu, an uncle of Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has been murdered by unknown persons. He was murdered at his farm in Ubima, Ikwerre local government area of the state on Monday September 8.

Ordu was the Vice Principal of Community Secondary School, CSS, Aluu in Ikwerre.

According to Mrs Ibim Semenitari, Commissioner for Information and Communications, 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.

A search party was then dispatched to find him at about 8:00 p.m. but they found his body dismembered beside a bush path. The matter has been reported to police.

Commenting on whether the killing had any political undertone, 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”.

“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,”