By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The new Anambra State security outfit, Ag?nechemba, aka Operation Udo Ga-Achi is being accused of killing a young man, tagging him a gunman.

This is coming barely a day after video clips made its round on social media showing the security personnel carrying out a raid at kidnappers den in Owerre-Ezukala community, Orumba South Local Government Area of the state.

Items displayed in the videos by the excited security members include, bombs, corpses of some persons killed during the operation, as well as some individuals blindfolded and loaded in a vehicle.

Though Anambra people were in celebratory mood when the news broke, the media space became agog again with reports, posts and clips alleging that one of the persons killed and labelled as gunman by the Ag?nechemba was an “innocent” young hustler and POP installer who went to work at Owerre-Ezukala.

It was alleged that the young man, identified as Kosisochukwu Okoye, hailed from Isiaku, same community with the State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo.

This has also sparked off a chain of reactions and counter-reactions on the social media, with some people saying that many residents of Owerre-Ezukala have attested that they knew when the young man and his colleagues arrived the community for work.

"This, they said, was also confirmed by the Catholic priest who the young men were working for.”

Corroborating this, a social media user, Iyke Orji, in a post on Friday, called on Governor Soludo to look into the matter.

He wrote: “Dear Soludo, a boy from your community in Isuofia was killed during POP installation and welding yesterday in Owerre-Ezukala by Agunaechemba.

“His name is Kosisochukwu Okoye. He’s from Isiaku, Isuofia. Every person in that Owerre axis are saying they knew when they came to work, the reverend father they’re working for too.

“Look into this, Mr. Governor.”

Echoing similar view, another social media user, Kingsley Ogugua wrote: “THIS YOUNG BOY, KOSISOCHUKWU OKOYE IS A NATIVE OF ISIAKU VILLAGE IN ISUOFIA, HE WAS KILLED YESTERDAY AT OWERRE EZUKALA WHERE HE WENT DO HIS POP CEILING WORK, ALONG WITH HIS COLLEAGUES, BY AGUNAECHEMBA AND UDOGACHI SECURITY OUTFITS, THEY WHERE LABELED TO BE KIDNAPPERS AND UNKNOWN GUNMEN, THERE REMAINS HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED AT THE MORGUE THIS AFTERNOON. MAY THERE SOULS REST IN PEACE AMEN.”

Also bemoaning the incident, a concerned citizen, Ejike Ndeke, shared a video where corpses of three young men allegedly killed by Ag?nechemba were used to block a major road at Isuofia, while the rural women and some other residents of the community were seen wailing and lamenting over the incident.