Aba Killing: We’ve started getting very credible information — Gov Otti

of Abia says the State Government has started receiving credible intelligence on the killing of five soldiers which took place on May 30 in Aba.

He said that the efforts made by the government to gather intelligence on the incident had started producing results and it would be sustained. “I believe, from credible intelligence available to us, that this criminal act may have been executed by people who are opposed to the progress and the good things that are happening in Abia.Otti said that he had visited the widows of the five slain soldiers and promised the commitment of the government to keep giving them adequate welfare support as well as place their children on scholarship until they graduate from the university.

He said that he had been informed that the people taken by the Nigerian Army for questioning had been released, except for about 10 people who were still being investigated. “So whatever be the case we will not like to punish those who are innocent with those who are guilty because like it is said, two wrongs cannot make a right,” he said.

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