The Special Adviser (SA) to Imo State Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Godfrey Dikeocha, made the promise when he made an unscheduled inspection tour of the council offices. "The destruction is massive. The incident is most shocking, senseless and premeditated. Government will get to the root of the this ugly incident with a view to apprehending and prosecuting all those involved in the mayhem", Dikeocha promised.

While saying that the action of the youths who carried out the destruction was transferred aggression, the Special Adviser also reasoned that the ideal thing would not have been to take laws into their hands. "The destruction is beyond description. We regret the death of the motorcyclist from Ihitte Ogada, as well as the hospitalization of the second accident victim.

With the destruction of the council headquarters, the whole thing now amounts to double jeopardy", Dikeocha said. He urged the police to step up surveillance in the council headquarters, regretting that "long after the mayhem, there is no police presence in the offices". Briefing the Governor’s delegate earlier, a member of the traditional ruler’s cabinet, Mr. Chukwuma Osuji, described what happened as "spontaneous and not premeditated as canvassed in government circles".

After narrating the story of what led to the attack on the council headquarters, Osuji said that the juveniles who descended on the offices could not immediately distinguish between a council worker and a contractor employed by the council. "Those who ran into and killed the motorcyclist were employed by the council and the council ought to be held responsible for the actions of those working for them.

These rent and tax collectors engaged by the council are not human beings at all. They have been causing a lot of accidents and except they are effectively checked, there may be more problems in the future", Osuji predicted.

Speaking also, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of the area, Mr. U. Ekpeyong, explained that all the people in their net were arrested at the scene of the crime. "Those arrested were all picked up at the scene of the crime. None of them was picked from his private residence."