Information
reaching NaijaAgroNet puts
credence to the story ran by us that initial investigations at the break of the
news that some corpses dumped in Ezu River in Anambra State boundary with Enugu State
was the handwork of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), with serious implication
for upstaging epidemics in over 100 communities along the riverines.
Reports by Leadership
stated that the Movement
for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has
identified the corpse as its members in Police custody.
MASSOB
went on to list some of their names, alleging that they were in Police custody,
invariably killed and dumped in Ezu River, just as the group petitioned the United
Nations, Federal Government, United States’ President Barack Obama, United
Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), and Amnesty International to name a
few.
The
group also insisted they identified the corpses of those found floating in the
Ezu River at Amansea community, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra
State as those of their members arrested by Police on November 9, 2012.
Director
of Information, MASSOB, Comrade Uchenna Madu, maintained in a press statement
made available to newsmen Friday that the controversial corpses were those of
their members who were arrested by security agencies in different parts of the
Anambra State last year but were never released, nor charged to court.
He
contended that Police secretly executed them alongside other criminals and
dumped same in the river to cover their tracks.
“MASSOB,
with a deep sense of grief and sorrow, wishes to inform Mr. Ban Ki Moon (UN
Secretary General), President Goodluck Jonathan, US President Barack Obama,
United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), and Amnesty International about
the gruesome murder of MASSOB members by the Special Anti-Robbery Squared
(SARS) of Nigeria Police Force, Awkuzu, Anambra State,” he said.
Some
of the victims’ names as given by MASSOB include Basil Ogbu, Michael Ogwa,
Sunday Omogo, Philip Nwankpa, Eze Ndubisi, Ebuka Eze, Obinna Ofor, Joseph Udoh
and Uchechukwu Ejiofor.
Madu
further pointed out that these victims were arrested at MASSOB’s security office
at Onitsha, Anambra State, on November 9, 2012, by a combined team of Nigerian
security agents - Army, Police and SSS - and were later handed over to SARS’
headquarters in Awkuzu, Anambra State, where they were detained until their
suspicious disappearance.
“We
got information from an insider at SARS headquarters, Awkuzu, that armless
MASSOB members detained at SARS were secretly killed alongside other robbery
suspects,” he alleged.
Reacting,
the acting spokesman of the Anambra State police command, Mr. Emeka
Chukwuemeka, said that it was only the outcome of the autopsy being conducted
on the specimen taken from the corpses that could state whether the claims by
the group were true or false.
NaijaAgroNet equally confirms that
MASSOB may have visited the SARS in Awkuzu only to discover that their members
in custody are missing.
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