Crimes

IPOB gunman: How I killed ex-Jonathan adviser

A member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Chinwendu Nwagwu, has narrated how he killed a former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, in Imo State.

Gulak, a former political adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was killed on May 30, 2021, in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on his way to the airport.

The chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was on his way to catch a flight to Abuja after visiting the state.

Speaking to newsmen when police paraded him at the Imo State Police Command Headquarters in Owerri on Wednesday, Nwagwu said the member of his gang shot Gulak but the bullet did not penetrate his body.

The suspect revealed that the bullet penetrated Gulak’s body after he removed the rings on the former presidential aide’s finger.

Nwagwu stated that he had been praying to come in contact with security operatives, who he said would spare his life and give him a chance to legally defend himself.

“When my gang member shot Gulak, the bullet didn’t penetrate his body; so I came down from our vehicle, removed the rings on his finger, and shot him before the bullet eventually penetrated. He fell to the ground and died,” he disclosed.

Speaking earlier, the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Michael Abattam, said Nwagwu, the leader of the gang that killed Gulak, was arrested at his country home in Nguru, Aboh Mbaise council area of the state on December 25.

Abattam said Nwagwu, popularly known as Onye Army, confessed to joining the Nigerian Army in 2013 but left in 2021 and later joined the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of IPOB.

He said Nwagwu further confessed to leading the gang that attacked offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ihitte-Uboma and Isiala Mbano council areas as well as the state headquarters in Owerri.

Abattam said the suspect also confessed to the use of black magic to prevent bullets from penetrating his body, adding that several items were recovered from his home upon his arrest.

He listed the items to include five pump action guns, four locally-made pistols, two cut-to-size double-barrelled guns, 50 rounds of live cartridges, locally-made hand grenades, and ESN regalia.

The Star