Several persons, including the victims of last Saturday’s demolition exercise in Owerri, have condemned the stories put out by Imo State Government and security agencies, to the effect that nobody died in the incident.

Speaking exclusively to Vanguard yesterday in his 23 Oguamanam Street, Owerri residence, Mr. Isaiah Ibeanusi, father of the slain Somtochukwu Ibeanusi, expressed regret that government and the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, could feed the public lies.

Boy hit and killed by stray bullet as police shoot to disperse protesters during Eke Onunwa market demolition in Imo state His words:

“How can they say that nobody died in the incident, when my only son is now lying in the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri? This is very sad.

“My 10-year-old son and his sister were religiously carrying out my instructions of moving our wares to a safe place,” adding that not long after, news that somebody had been killed rented the air.

He continued: “I went looking for the children I left behind. Behold, I spotted Somtochukwu at Mbaise Road, where he was lying in a pool of his blood. I picked him up and rushed him to FMC, where a doctor on duty confirmed him dead.” ‘I told my Bishop’ He said after depositing the boy’s corpse at FMC morgue, he went to complain to Archbishop Anthony Obinna at Maria Assumpta Cathedral, Owerri. According to him, “I am a native of Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State. How can I tell this horrible story to my people that my son was shot in his head for committing no known crime? I am really devastated.”

Asked if the Police has visited him since the incident occurred, the bereaved father said he was yet to see any policeman. He added: “Archbishop Obinna was visibly angry over the incident. He prayed for the entire family and urged us to bear the loss with fortitude.” When Vanguard visited Mr. Sebastian Oparaku in the male ward of FMC, he narrated how a stray bullet hit him when he was shaving inside his house. “I thank God that I am still alive to tell my story; I can say that since I didn’t die on that first night, there is hope that I will live,” Oparaku said and dozed off. ‘There’s a bullet in my thigh’ In his account, Mr. Leonard Ebubeagu Osuji, who still has a bullet lodged in his thigh, said Owerri people remained committed to sustaining their ancestral market, Ekeukwu Owerri.

He said: “It is shocking to hear that no life was lost and the operation was successfully executed. “I am billed for an operation tomorrow (today), to extract a bullet lodged inside my thigh. “There is a subsisting court order restraining government from tampering with the ancestral market until the hearing and determination of the suit.”

Police Commissioner
Contacted, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike, said no report was lodged in any police formation in the state. Told that Vanguard was calling him from the residence of the slain Somtochukwu, the Police boss said he will send intelligence officers to interview the family.
Army denies claim
Also contacted yesterday, spokesman for the Brigade, Lieutenant Haruna Tagwai, said soldiers did not shoot anybody. Tagwai said: “Please, don’t go and write what you don’t know. The soldiers deployed to the market did not shoot anybody.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/owerri-market-demolition-no-one-died-says-okorocha-lies-10-yr-old-son-dead-father/

Since the return of democracy in 1999, Imo and Abia never had a governor! People from the South East will understand better.

I really feel bad for Nigerians for all the nonsense they go through daily

SalamRushdie:
I really feel bad for Nigerians for all the nonsense they go through daily

I feel bad as well. It is sad the kind of punishment their people that rigged themselves to power put them through.

If not for all the rituals and voodoo they use in scrapping the peoples brains, some of these politicians would have been drawn out to the street and given a heartless beating for their heartlessness.

;(Sad;(

The truth will be known in due course.

because he is from a poor background...datz he is not referred to as a human being....God der watch una

All APC people will never recover or be cured from lying.It's well engrained in their DNA.

People shld be wise enough, u were told to vacate before now yet u refuse, today u are blaming the governor, I think is right time we learn our lesson, Rochas is actually given his best in IMO state whether u like it or not

net282:
People shld be wise enough, u were told to vacate before now yet u refuse, today u are blaming the governor, I think is right time we learn our lesson, Rochas is actually given his best in IMO state whether u like it or not

e no go better for you. I for tell u say u go lose your pikin same way, then I remember your child is not the guilty one

Is Okorocha saying that this boy is a nobody and as such his death in the hands of his gun wielding indisciplined forces is inconsequential?


No investigation but outright dismissal of the grief of his people as a non-issue!

I'm a follow of mbaka but eh I'm just wondering why all the politicians that mbaka supports and urge the public to support always turn out to be monster..
I remembered when mbaka composed a song for the defeated pdp candidate just to give this man then apga votes
Now look at how he feed with the blood of his citizens and cliam noting happens

I'm very sad about the boys dead...

For killing and denying the death of little Ibeanusi, what goes around comes around...

where is the opposition party? pdp, Kowa, apda? , ,the killing of the child should be condemned outrightly. . why are we not having a voice from the south east to condemn this extrajudicial killing? justice should be served.

I believe

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Hmm this is what you get when you go alaba go buy China Samsung thinking it's original. Tee aboki ude, gba ya ma pefum, aboki bu aboki. Obara n'aso ya ka maltina. Kedu ka ndi Imo siri chocha nno ezigbo nwafo igbo, oburu onye nna ya bu onye ugwu ka ha siri na okaha nma? Ona amakazi etua? May the little boy's soul rest in peace

Same way you told us you've paid all the state civil servants meanwhile up till date you're still owning them more 10months salaries

why should femi fani kayode be the only one speaking for the igbos

Dreadful news

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Even with live pics and evidence of bullet, yet they deny.
Politicians and Lies are inseparable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXAIj6FViFg

Okoroawusa should not make his people hate him. Talk with sense man

edlion57:
because he is from a poor background...datz he is not referred to as a human being....God der watch una

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U see our government so?
No iota of feeling for the common man....

net282:
People shld be wise enough, u were told to vacate before now yet u refuse, today u are blaming the governor, I think is right time we learn our lesson, Rochas is actually given his best in IMO state whether u like it or not

Given 48hours to vacate.
God is watching you

EmekaBlue:
Okoroawusa should not make his people hate him. Talk with sense man

I think that boat has sailed.