“HE IS MY ONLY BROTHER” – ACTOR OSITA IHEME CRIES OUT AS GUNMEN KILL HIS ONLY BROTHER IN IMO STATE

Prince Iheme is older brother to popular Nollywood actor, Osita Iheme, popularly called Pawpaw.

The gunmen shot sporadically in parts of Mbaitoli, Orji and Owerri, even as they warned people to stay indoors in observance of the sit-at-home ordered by a faction of proscribed agitators of Biafra.

Yet-to-be identified gunmen, on Friday, ran amok in Owerri, Imo State capital city, and gunned down a policeman and another resident, Prince Iheme.

They also inflicted machete cuts on the Imo State’s Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Martin Eke, and left him in the pool of his blood.

The gunmen, who operated in three vehicles, drove into Orji and started attacking residents and passers-by, including policemen.

An eyewitness said the gunmen made a stopped at Nkwo-Orji market and shot sporadically before zooming off towards Okigwe Road.

At Ubomri in the Mbaitoli local government area of the State, gunmen attacked the convoy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Mbaitoli/Ikeduru federal constituency, Engr. Akarachi Amadi.

The source added, “Prince Iheme was riding in the same vehicle with the Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Martin Eke. Prince Iheme who is Pawpaw’s elder brother was killed on the spot. The Commissioner, who was sworn in two weeks ago was cut badly. He has just been rushed to a hospital. They were driving in a Ford vehicle”.

The Imo State Police spokesperson, Michael Abattam, was yet to respond to enquiries about the attacks as at press time.