War In Obosi Community , As 32 Youths Killed. Baby Boy Still Missing Four Months After, Wife Delivers Twins , Father Falls To Stroke

                              These people are Obosi Vigilante Group in action to protect themselves

                                                 This is Prince Orizu alleging they attacked him

                                                    Prince Orizu after treatment

                                                 Where is my son , mother demands

                                                             Wife of Baby Boy and his twins

Is Baby Boy dead or alive? That is the question on the lips of his wife and mother

----wife delivers twins as husband disappears, cries out for husband

-----bring him dead or alive says mother

--------Another victim recounts how he was battered by the security men and called for public intervention

Tension is the word in Obosi, Idemmili North local government Area of Anambra state. Obosi is the former Commonwealth Secretary, Chief Emeka Anyaoku’s home stead.

 For every two days youths and community people protest in search of one Mr. Tochukwu Nebo known as baby boy in Obosi and environs.

He is loved and liked by many for his daring spirit in safe guarding Obosi collective heritage as the former Chairman of Obosi Land Management Committee. That investigations confirmed was as a compensation for he role he played in enthroning Igwe A.C Iweka as traditional ruler of Obosi kingdom.

He is from Ire village and married 26 years old Chinenye with five children among whom are twins born to the family on October 8, 2013.  She is a petty trader but all now is history as she does nothing now but going from one pillar to one post asking for her husband’s whereabouts.

Baby boy disappeared since 16^th December,2013 after allegedly being summoned to the Igwe’s palace by the palace secretary. Already the father, Mr. Okwudili Nebo is bedridden for unwanted stroke for sequel to fruitless efforts to locate his son. The mother Christy Nebo is already showing signs of  being afflicted by stroke or sort of ailment associated with endless worry, only God can intervene. The children are hapless and indeed missing their father especially the four moths old twins.

The family have written several petitions to the Nigerian Police , State security services and all other security agencies for intervention to no avail even the traditional ruler and community leadership have been well intimated on the development. The National Security Adviser have equally been written penultimate month for intervention.

The petition by Hamilton Ogbodo Esq of H.N Ogbodo and company solicitors to the family  entitled ,’’ attempted murder, kidnapping and unlawful detention by Jimmyrock Ikenwa (Onyeisi), Echezona Iweka , Okechukwu Nkembuofo , Echezona Orakwute , Obiajulu Iwenofu, Jideofor Onwugbolu , Oluchukwu Obiegbu , Obi Asidanya and AC Iweka, implored the National Security Adviser to arrest the aforementioned people to compel them to produce Okwudili Nebo.

The petition stated that some of the aforementioned are members of  Obosi Vigilance group who called their client and battered him through in public in full glare of people  and later took him to the palace of their sponsor and principal, Mr A C Iweka.

‘’Our clients further informed us that when they plucked up courage to ask for the whereabouts of their son they were informed that Mr A C Iweka handed them over to the officers of the state security services Awka. We have gone to the office of the SSS at Awka but they denied having our client’s son in their custody. We have equally sourced all the police formations in the state without locating our client’s son.

‘’ Our clients believe that these people have either killed their son or are detaining him in a secret location to satisfy preparatory to killing him. Our clients’ belief is informed by the antecedent of the above mentioned hoodlums masquerading as security men. Our clients son was at the head of Mr A.C Iweka’s group during the Obosi crisis, he was rewarded with the chairmanship of the Ime Obosi. During his short  tenure Mr A.C Iweka sought to use him to eliminate his perceived enemies but he resisted this. On a particular occasion he asked him to locate and bring one Anyachebelu to him but he refused , this estranged him from Mr A.C Iweka , thereafter sacked him from his position and commenced moves to eliminate him.

‘’Our clients belief is also supported by a story in the Sunday Sun Newspaper of December 22 , 2013 page 15 where Mr A.C Iweka owned up that he sent the Obosi vigilance Group to go after our clients son. He also confirmed that they brought him to his palace. In the article he claimed that our clients son is a criminal and a torn in his flesh. This is far from the truth , we enclose herewith pictures showing how close A.C Iweka and our clients son before they fell out. We also have video clips of their relationship to debunk claim that he was a criminal.

‘’Consequently, we implore you to arrest these people and compel them to produce our clients son who has been in their custody since the 16^th day of December 2013. Mr AC Iweka maintains that he can get away with any atrocity he commits because of his connection and status’’, the petition concluded.

    

But his wife, Chinenye with a heavy heart stated thus: “I saw my husband alias Baby boy last on 16^th December 2013. At exactly 7a.m that day, he left us to Igwe Iweka’s palace in response to the Palace Secretary’s phone call ordering him to appear for a brief meeting with the monarch. But thirty minutes later, a man ran to our compound and informed us that Baby Boy was undergoing torture, beaten beyond recognition by the security men attached to the Igwe.

“Immediately, I boarded a bike (a commercial motorcyclist) searching for him only to discover him at Anyafulu’s compound (house of the current Chairman of OLMC ); his hands were tied back as the security men of Igwe boot him to and fro the ground under a pool of blood gushing all through his body. I cried to them to find out what truly transpired. But they ignored me, after some minutes, they threw him into their vehicle and zoomed-off to Igwe’s palace where they further unleashed more terror and pains on him under the supervision of their master, the traditional Ruler.

“They fired shots on the air throughout the operation in order to scare people away from the scene. But I took courage and rushed to Igwe in heavy tears. I knelt before him, and requested to know my husband’s sin. He ignored me too, and ordered the soldiers to take him away. So, they left the place to unknown destination without uttering a word to me”.

“Then, till now, I and my family members are sleepless. We have searched him at all the police station in Anambra state including SARS, SSS among others to no avail. Our fear is that they have killed many youths of our town in a similar way. We don’t know what else to do. Igwe and his cohorts should kindly release my husband. This is how they have killed many of our youths. Ever since, a week hardly gone without beholding some youths on rampage demanding for release of their abducted beloved. We don’t know whether he is dead or alive. Also, we are yet to receive a statement pointing to his destination, offence and if he is still alive or dead”.

“Please, Igwe and his men should release my darling. I have written many petitions to that effect but none is yet to produce positive result as I keep hearing that some prominent men of this town are sabotaging the investigation. But why? Why are they doing this to my husband? Is it right to imprison or kill a Nigerian without trial or investigation to discover and bring the culprits to book? This is injustice, if I truly understand the state of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria as amended”.

“I have been forced to leave as a widow or a single parent; fending for self and our children. How could I carter for these twins born October 8 last year, two months before my love sudden disappearance. I have no source of livelihood again because my petty trade is no more since this ugly incident.

“Please, the world, government, civil liberty organizations, pressure groups, the media and other relevant agencies should help me to see that justice prevail on this matter. No one is above the law. I can’t afford to lose my darling at no course”.

Mother of Baby Boy, Christy Nebo, called for a thorough interrogation to find out her son’s current destination.  She almost collapsed at the course of this interview as her Blood Pressure (BP) rose to 250. She said that her husband, Mr. Okwudili Nebo is now half-dead as he has been paralyzed by stroke resulting from the bad news of the mass beating and disappearance of their son in the hands of his beloved-Mr Iweka. She accused the palace security men of maiming and killing innocent youths and that they have killed many youths. She reminded that her son would have been killed on an earlier attack but he escaped death by whiskers.

She said: ‘’I am calling for his immediate release dead or alive by whoever is holding him.  

Part two

Similarly, a prominent son of Obosi community in Idemili-North council area, Anambra state, Prince Emeka Ike Orizu who nearly lost his life on he hands of the Obosi vigilance group is calling for a through investigation to all the alleged killings in the community by a specialized security team from the presidency as those already on the case have been allegedly bribed.

Prince Orizu bemoaned what he termed suppression of investigation to unravel the rudiment of incessant killings of youths in Obosi town, even as he stressed the needs for the law enforcement agencies to bring the culprits to book.

He is worried that some appear to be above the law not minding it was otherwise as stated in the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. He called on prominent citizens of Obosi like the Former Secretary of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the Commandant of Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Osita Chidioka; and Chief Dan Chuke, Nigeria’s Former Minister of State for Aviation to assist the town put a voice up calling for thorough investigation of not less than 23 youths murdered in cold blood in Obosi and have the culprits brought to book no matter how highly placed.

He alleged that Obosi has been on bondage since inception of its incumbent monarch, HRH Igwe Chidubem Iweka, even though he did not recognize him as such but called on him to stand to the challenge . He wondered why those youths killed should be tagged cultists, rapists, robbers among others.

Recounting how he was attacked 8^th November, 2011 by the hoodlums, Prince Orizu said: “See how these people go about with costly rifles and ammunition. Over 200 men of special taskforce who were militants formed by A.C.Iweka attacked me on 8^th November while I was returning home. The gang Leader told me that Iweka sent them to kill me for refusing to support him to become our Traditional Ruler. Before, I could utter a word, the boy slapped me, his gang members joined with blades and weapons till I was left on the ground to die. Blood gushed all over my body as you can see on that picture.

I am also demanding for justice over my properties destroyed on 14^th November 2012 during their operation. They tore my wife’s clothes and naked my wife, brutalized her and my mother beyond recognition, even as they arrested and brutalized my younger brother, Dubem Charles Orizu. They must tell the world why they took such decisive measure upon my household without investigation. I am calling on the media, international liberty organizations, pressure groups, state and national assemblies, the presidency among other interest groups to act,come and rescue us-the people of Obosi kingdom before they would finish us”, Prince concluded.

His words:  “ Over 23 indigenes of Obosi have been killed in recent time. But only 3 families out of the deceased are currently in the court and the press demanding for justice. You don’t just kill a person at no course, no trial, just for a mere allegation leveled against them by Igwe Iweka and his cohorts. I wondered why the SSS and his Special Taskforce infringes on the rights of our people. Why can someone kill another without evidence of offence or trial? They told you that someone is a rapist, drug pusher, robber or whatever and you go ahead and shot the person dead just like that? What are they using these corpses for-ritual or what?

“You can’t get peace in a camp of injustice. Justice must prevail. The worst is that all these families have petitioned the Federal and State Government, Security Chiefs, National and State Assemblies with no positive result because my investigation showed that each time a progress is about to be recorded likes of Osita Chidioka, Emeka Anyaoku and Dan Chuke whose influence had never brought glory to Obosi community except selfishness and evil, would order for a stop. They had nothing to show for their prominence unlike our great men who popularized them such as late Sir Godfrey Eneli, first Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Britain. He was the one that recommended Emeka Anyaoku for Commonwealth. Mr. Ikechukwu Anekwu, for instance, whose son, Obiesi was gruesomely murdered by Iweka is the head of Oliobi family where Emeka Anyaoku hails from. Yet, he suppressed the interrogation to unravel the culprits and root of Obiesie’s death. We are yet to see his corpse since they claimed that he is dead. The miscreants who looted his father’s properties are yet unknown. No compensation done, the butchered mother is still in the hospital. Besides, the man is still on exile since 6^th December, 2012 till now.