Shooting In Ikenga-Ogidi, As Commmunity Leader Sends SOS To IGP , Three Brothers Kidnapped

                                       

Former Presidential aspirant and chieftain of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Obianagha has sent a Save Our Souls (SOS) appeal to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar to step into what he called lawlessness that has taken over Ikenga-Ogidi community , Idemmili North local government area , Anambra state before lives are lost.

Obianagha , a community leader raised alarm that his life is in danger and called for urgent intervention from the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.

Obianagha said: “So, I am raising this alarm because my life is in danger. I am a well- known politician in this country and I cannot leave my family to run away. This is because in 2011 a similar development claimed the life of  Arinze Anaikwu and his corpse remained in the mortuary until recently. This is the only community I know that does not obey the police or court order. My life is danger and we are not safe. The situation is critical”.  

Throughout yesterday, Mr. Ekume could not pick calls put through by newsmen as he repeatedly said he was in a meeting and could not take calls.

Anambra state police spokesperson DSP Emeka Chukwuemeka when contacted said he was not aware of the situation but said the Commissioner of police is now in Ogidi Divisionla Police station in his ongoing tour of the police formations in the state but assured that if there something like that, our reporter would be intimated.  

Obanagha alleged that since Friday last week, guns have been freely used by thugs suspected to be ‘boys’ of the President General of Ikenga Ogidi Union, one Mr. Amaechi Ekume, are terrorizing the community. He expressed fear that when similar condition existed in the community in 2011, it claimed the life of one Arinze Anuikwu.

The present condition, Obianagha alleged, like what happened in 2011 arose from Ekume denying those who bought land genuinely from the community from using their land and insisted they would buy it a second time.

These people went to Idemili High court sitting in Ogidi in suit No. HID/84/2013/304M/2013 in which Justice Ike Ogu restrained Ekume and his ilk in a judgment delivered on January 13, 2014.

He alleged further that despite the judgment and several meetings both parties had with the Divisional Police Officer of Ogidi Division, Ekume and his boys were bent on having their way.

The matter became worst last Friday when buyers of the land went with some workers from Ikenga Ogidi to develop their plots but were chased away by the Ekume boys.

 Then on Monday, April 7 the buyers again went to their land to develop it, this time with some police men for protection, but this time Ekume boys allegedly not only  chased away both the buyers and police men but captured some workers who they picked with machete and heavily brutalized them.

They took the workers which included three brothers  of the same family, namely: Arinze Udeh, Chinedu Udeh and Udoka Udeh and took them to State Armed Robbery Squad (SARS) Awkuzu where the boys claimed they were Vigilante men and their captives were armed robbers.

But when they could not produce their identity card to buttress their claim, SARS men ordered them to leave their station and they dumped the three brothers at the gate of Ogidi police station.

Obianagha further alleged that the situation again turned to threatening dimension when the Ekume boys shot sporadically throughout last night and went from house to house warning that should anybody disobey their order he will meet his waterloo.