The Anambra State Government has condemned the killing of a businessman, Ifesinachi Onyekere, also known as ‘fish magnet’, describing the killing as ‘dastardly and heart-wrenching’.
Onyekere, a son of the Woman Leader of the Anambra State All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), was abducted by gunmen at his residence in Ezinifite community, Okpuno, Awka South LGA of Anambra State, in a late-night attack on Saturday, 26 July, and was subsequently killed.
In a press statement on Sunday, the state Commissioner for Information, Law Mefor, sympathised with the deceased’s family, assuring them that the state government is in search of justice while sustaining and strengthening security in the state.
Mefor, who maintained that such a development is an affront to the Prof. Chukwuma Soludo government’s new security architecture, also expressed delight that the police are on the heels of the perpetrators.
The commissioner was quoted as having stated this when he paid a condolence visit to the Woman Leader of the Anambra State APGA, Esther Onyekesi, according to the statement.
The statement read in part, ‘The Anambra State Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, recently paid a condolence visit to the Woman Leader of the Anambra State All Progressives Grand Alliance, Mrs Esther Onyekesi, whose only son, Martin Ifesinachi Onyekesi, a prominent fish dealer in the state popularly known as Fish Magnet, was kidnapped and murdered recently in Anambra State.
‘Mefor, who described the fish dealer’s death as dastardly and heart-wrenching, sympathised with the deceased’s mother, assuring her that the state government is with her in search of justice while sustaining and strengthening security in Anambra State.
‘He maintained that such a death is an affront to the Solution Government’s new security architecture and expressed happiness that the police are on the heels of the perpetrators and have issued a statement on the matter after recovering the vehicle in which they drove him away, adding that nobody can commit such a dastardly act in Anambra State and get away with it.
‘So may his soul rest in peace. We’ll fight and get him justice.
‘The mother will get justice, the family will get justice, and Anambra will get justice.
‘It’s a very painful loss for all of us, and the government is always challenged when things like this happen because it’s an affront to the new security architecture put in place by the ‘Solution Government’ led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo’.
The commissioner said security in Anambra has significantly improved since Soludo launched a new security architecture on 18 February 2025.
He noted that troubled areas are now receiving proper attention and that anyone causing unrest must now face the government’s security outfits, Agunechemba and Operation Udo Ga-Achi.
‘And whoever is constituting a security challenge in Anambra now knows that they have the government’s new security outfits, Agunechemba and Operation Udo Ga-Achi, to contend with, the statement read.
Also on the condolence visit, along with the commissioner was the Chairman of the Nnewi South Local Government Area, Van George Ezeogidi.
