ATIKU FIRES BACK AT OBASANJO, SAYS HE STOOD BY EX-PRESIDENT IN PRISON AND AFTER RELEASE. (PHOTO).
Following the gruesome murder of an Imo State-based lawyer, Chinedu George Nwowu, all the courts within the Mgbidi, Oguta and Omuma areas of the state were ordered shut by the Nigeria Bar Association on Thursday.
Nwowu was on Wednesday night shot dead along the Mgbidi Highway by yet-to-be-identified gunmen after they intercepted him and dragged him out from his car.
Following the killing, the NBA, Orlu branch, announced the closure of all courts within the area.
The branch, in a memo issued on Thursday by Chukwuemeka Okoro, notified lawyers that an emergency meeting would be held by 10 am on the same day at the High Court premises in Mgbidi.
Meanwhile, the Imo State police spokesperson, Henry Okoye, has confirmed the incident even as he said they had commenced an investigation into the killing.
He said the police would not allow the perpetrators of the killing to get away with their crime and assured the people that the police were on top of the case.
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