www.odogwublog.com wants to know why the
police are arresting youths in Ozubulu for seeking redress locally. And why
arrest the 94 year old Chief Priest?
There is
tension in Ozubulu, headquarters of Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra
State, following the arrest of a 94-year-old chief priest of Ndekwulu and five
youth leaders of the community by the Police.
The chief
priest, Anazo Ilomuanya, was arrested for alleged invoking a curse on some
people suspected to be arrow heads in the killings of Ozubulu indigenes in the
country and South Africa.
Others
arrested are Emeka Anaekwe, Anazo Ilomuanya, Okoli Udegbunam, Ifediora Aloysius
and Igbokwe Nnanyeleze. It was gathered that besides those arrested, no fewer
than 30 names are on the Police wanted list.
Trouble started when concerned youths, on the
platform of Concerned Indigenous People of Ozubulu, CIPO, were said to have met
and decided to seek solution to the suspected contract killings of indigenes of
the community in the country and in South Africa for some years now.
However, the
initiative of the youths allegedly did not go down well with people in the
community, who then invited the Police to arrest the chief priest of the deity
and some of the youths.
According to
the youths, “despite several interventions and attempt to broker peace, the
ugly trend has continued and more lives are lost annually in the sustained
carnage. “We took the matter to a dreaded local deity Ndekwulu, where we
briefed its 94-year-old high priest, Anazo Ilomuanya, to invoke death,
damnation and all other inconceivable calamities on all who have hands in the
ugly trend.
“We laid the complaint before the high priest,
seeking the intervention of the gods of the land to administer justice to the
perpetrators of the killings and the false witnesses in the ongoing case of the
suspects arrested over the last killing in the church in Ozubulu.”
The chief priest was said to have reportedly
gone to work immediately, invoking curses, damnation, public disgrace, open
ridicule and eventual ignoble death on those behind the savage killings of
their youths.
The chief
priest’s action allegedly rattled some individuals, who allegedly mobilised the
Police to arrest him and the five youth leaders.
Some of the
names submitted to the shrine by the youths included those of police
detectives, all those currently being detained and or standing trial over the
murders both in Nigeria and in South Africa, those already jailed, the various
trial judges, the legal counsel and some leaders of the community. It was also
gathered that about 30 names of the youths have been listed for crackdown by
the Police, which has made the community a ghost town, as many youths have
fled.
Reaction of
the Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Haruna, were unsuccessful. At
7p.m. yesterday, his phone was switched off.
It would be recalled that over 20 people lost their lives and over 50 people injured in the massacre.
Ozubulu Boils as Police arrest 94-yr-old Ndekwulu Chief priest, 5 others; declare 30 more wanted
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