Attack On Young Shall GrowBoss: Igbos Plan Protest

Following the failed assassination attempt on the
Managing Director of Young Shall Grow Motors
Limited, Chief Vincent Obianodo, and the rising
crime rate in FESTAC Town, Lagos, southwest
Nigeria, residents, mainly of Igbo descent, are
planning to stage a peaceful protest this
weekend.
Gunmen believed to be assassins recently
blocked Obianodo’s Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle,
SUV, in FESTAC, and tried to assassinate him.
The suspected assassins riddled Obianodo’s SUV
with bullets, killing his driver and a female police
orderly, while Obianodo, who narrowly escaped
death, was injured in the arm and has been
flown abroad for treatment.
The gruesome attack has prompted the residents
to lose faith in the ability of the police in FESTAC
to protect them, because they said this was one
gruesome attack too many.
The residents are planning the peaceful protest
against the backdrop of the incessant security
challenges in FESTAC Town and its environs,
while calling on the Inspector General of Police,
Mohammed Abubakar to nip it in the bud before
it gets out of hand.
Some of the residents alleged that  it was the
same vehicle that a special squad from the Area
‘E’ Command uses for their operations that was
used in kidnapping an Igbo chief recently and it
was the same vehicle that was also used in the
failed assassination attempt on Obianodo.
The Igbos made up of businessmen said it is high
time they cried out before the crime rate
escalated.
Leading the proposed peaceful protest is a close
associate of Obianodo, who wants to remain
anonymous.
He accused the police of being culpable in the
failed assassination attempt, adding “the families
of Chief (Obianodo) have continued to ask
questions why the police did not respond swiftly
when they heard sporadic shootings on the night
he was attacked.”
Expected among the protesters is Chukwuma
Nwokeoma, a business tycoon,  who opined that
there is more to the failed assassination attempt
on Obianodo than meets the eye.
“The police have stopped me times without
number with a particular car but since the attack
on chief, that car has suddenly disappeared.
Concerned authorities should please ask the
police where the said car is. I am raising this
question now before they finish killing us all,”
said Nwokeoma, who hails from Neni, Anambra
State, the same village as Obianodo.
Nwokeoma added that they are already
mobilising Igbos in FESTAC ahead of the peaceful
protest while calling on the State Security
Service, SSS, to take over the investigation into
the failed assassination attempt.
Meanwhile, families of Bianodo also want the case
to be transferred, having lost confidence in the
police there.