At least six people are feared dead after a violent clash erupted between some Hausa residents and indigenes of Akokwa community in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo.
According to one Chidi Godswill Iwuchukwu, who shared the story on a Facebook group, he said;
“A Fulani man pursued a girl hawking buns into an old woman’s house in Akokwa today, when the woman intervened the Fulani man used shovel and murdered both the woman and the girl. Thank God for a young lady that saw what happened and she raise an alarm, the youth of Akokwa gathered and killed the Fulani man and killed more 5 Hausa people before police came and intervene, news reaching me now is that all the hausas people are running away from Akokwa, Ideato and some other neighboring towns”
Confirming the incident on Friday, the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, said preliminary investigations revealed that the clash was triggered by an alleged murder of a woman by a Hausa man.
Speaking to Channels Television, he explained that the middle aged Hausa man, who works as a security guard in the area, had a misunderstanding with a young woman which became intense that the man murdered the woman with a shovel.
Mr Lakanu also said that the Hausa allegedly went ahead to kill the woman’s friend who was trying to settle the issue