According
to some Igbo people resident in South Africa who are in the know, the
cause of the bloody war that has seen many people killed both in that
country and in Nigeria stemmed from a botched agreement between the
alleged principal actors, Chief Aloysius Ikegwuonu also known as Bishop and his kinsman identified only as Obrocho.
It
was gathered that Bishop and Obrocho had been involved in a drug deal
with the proceed amounting to millions of dollars and instead of sharing
the money realized, Bishop played a fast one on Obrocho and made away
with the money.
The
insiders insist that when the crisis first started, the Igbo community
in South Africa under the leadership of the Eze Ndigbo, Eze Martin Emechebe
and his cabinet members, waded into the matter in order to resolve and
bring lasting peace between the two brothers on one hand and their
groups on the other hand.
This is how one of the Igbo community members captured the incident:
"At
the peace meeting, it was resolved that Bishop will have to pay $5
million as part of the final settlement of the rift in the interest of
peace and he accepted the settlement and a time frame was fixed for the
payment.
However, before the
date, Bishop’s camp suffered serious attacks from Obrocho’s camp, and
the wife of Ebube Dike who was Bishop's right-hand man was shot dead in
Ozubulu alongside other people by unknown gunmen.
Chief Aloysius Ikegwuonu is said to be the cause of the ganr war (Pulse)
The
last straw that made the matter more difficult to be resolved was the
brutal murder of Ginika, Bishop’s schoolmate and close friend at
Comprehensive Secondary School, Ozubulu. Ginika was Bishop's company’s
manager.
Ginika who hailed from
Mbaise in Imo State, had disagreements with Bishop and moved to
Obrocho’s camp and joined hand to secure a drug route which they call
park.
However, Ginika was killed by unknown gun men and Bishop was suspected to be behind the murder which he had denied.
After
Ginika’s death, the two camps declared an all out war and since then,
have been killing themselves to the extent that the traditional rulers
of Ozubulu and Mbaise where Ginika hailed from had intervened in the
matter to no avail.
We know that
the attack at the Ozubulu church was carried out following the
information that Bishop was around and was billed to commission some
roads in the community and attend church for Thanksgiving on the Sunday
that the church was attacked.
However,
he hurriedly left the town due to an intelligence report from locals
that strange faces were spotted in the community before the attackers
struck on Sunday."
Though
Bishop has continued to deny his involvement in any drug dealings or
have any knowledge why the attack was carried out in a church he built
and donated to the Nnewi Parish, fingers continue to be pointing at him
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