By Donu Kogbara
ON December 3l, when normal communities were peacefully bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming in 2018, Omoku – a notoriously troubled town in my home state, Rivers, was rent asunder by shocking gangland murders.
Evil cultist assassins opened fire on crowds exiting New Year’s Eve church services and over 26 persons were shot. A feared local hoodlum – a “kingpin” and “militant” known as Don Waney – was blamed for this attack.
I heartily congratulate the Nigerian army and their colleagues in other security agencies for successfully cornering Don Waney in his hideout in Enugu State and unceremoniously despatching him to meet his Maker.
As a journalist who grew up in the Western World, I have strong liberal leanings and don’t normally support capital punishment or extra-judicial killings. I was abducted in 2015;…
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