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Some yet-to-be-identified hoodlums have razed the Anambra home of a lawmaker, Paschal Agbodike.

Mr Agbodike represents Ihiala Federal Constituency of Anambra State in the House of Representatives.

The attackers invaded the house at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday in Ubahi-Mbosi, a community in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state.

The hoodlums were said to have shot indiscriminately for some minutes before setting the house ablaze during the attack.

Mr Agbodike, a former deputy speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, won the House of Representatives election for his constituency in the 2023 general election.

He is a member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the ruling party in Anambra State.

Sources said no life was lost in the attack, but the house, a well-furnished six-bedroom duplex, was completely razed by the attackers.

The lawmaker, said he was in Abuja when the house was attacked.

“Yes. It is true,” he said, promising to revert back with details.

When contacted on Tuesday afternoon, the police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, also confirmed the attack to the press.


Mr Ikenga, a deputy superintendent of police, said a joint security team led by the area commander in Ihiala had been drafted to the scene of the attack.

“Preliminary information from eyewitnesses reveals that the yet-to-be-identified persons invaded the six-bedroom duplex, made away with some properties and set the building ablaze,” he said.

Like other states in Nigeria’s south-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State with frequent attacks by armed persons.

The attacks often target security agencies, government officials and facilities.

Several government officials, including serving and past lawmakers, have been killed by gunmen in the state in the last year.

source:
Premium Times
Hoodlums raze Nigerian lawmaker’s house
