The Anambra state governor has put up a 10 million naira ($24,000) reward for information on the killers.
Police in Nigeria have discovered the severed head of a state legislator who went missing last week in the southeastern state of Anambra, where the government accuses separatists of carrying out a spate of killings and kidnappings.
The banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group has been leading calls for the secession of the region, the homeland of the Igbo ethnic group, from the rest of Nigeria. Its leader Nnamdi Kanu is being charged with “terrorism” and treason by the federal government.
Okechukwu Okoye, a legislator in the Anambra state assembly, and his aide went missing on May 15. His head was found a week later in a motor park in the Nnewi south local government area, the state police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga said.
“The lawmaker was killed”, Ikenga said on Sunday. “His head was found along Nnobi road. There is no suspect in custody yet”.
The aide is also believed to have been murdered too but there was no mention of finding his body.
Anambra state Governor Charles Soludo has put up a 10 million...
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