Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,162,729 members, 7,851,510 topics. Date: Wednesday, 05 June 2024 at 09:01 PM

How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother (1078 Views)

How SARS Murdered My 3 Sons - Woman, Now Childless & Abandoned By Her Husband / #ENDSARS: Leave Peter Obi Out Of Ezu River Corpses, SARS Murdered Them— MASSOB / EndSARS: Awkuzu SARS Under Lock As Protesters Paralyse Awka (2) (3) (4)

(1) (2) (Reply) (Go Down)

How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 3:52pm On Mar 17, 2023
How Obi's Awkuzu SARS murdered my three sons in three years –Mother

Mrs Ukamaka Obasi, a native of Onueke, Ezea, in Ebonyi State, has recounted how the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Awkuzu, Anambra State, rendered her childless, after allegedly killing her three sons extra-judicially, between 2012 and 2014.



According to her: “On one fateful day in July, 2012, I came back to our residence at Umenweke Street, Okpoko in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, and was greeted with the news that my first son, Ebuka, was picked up by SARS operatives at his shop at Sokoto Road, Fegge, Onitsha, where he was selling clothes; based on the allegation that he was a member of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). “It was already very late so I couldn’t go that night.



So, the next morning, his father, Thomas Obasi, and I went to SARS headquarters at Awkuzu, where they confirmed to us that he was in their custody. They told us to continue bringing food for him until they finished their investigations, so that we would take him on bail. “We continued visiting him; bringing him some food items at each occasion. We did this for about one week. Each time I visited him, I would be made to pay N2000 at the counter before I would be allowed to give him food.



“However, on one of those days, when I brought food for him, one of the female officers there told me to stop bringing food for him, that he had been executed. “We (his father and I) wept uncontrollably before we left SARS office. We made several efforts to confront the authorities of the antirobbery unit to tell us the offence our son committed that led to his execution; but our efforts yielded no fruits.


Sadly till now we are still yet see his dead body. Honestly, it was very difficult then to convince people in our village that our son, who was 20 years old as at then, and was planning his traditional marriage in three months time, was arrested and killed by SARS, based on the allegation that he was a member of MASSOB.



“As if they were not done, it happened again that in August, 2013, about one year after the murder of our first son by SARS operatives in Awkuzu, our second son, Obiora, was also arrested by the same operatives. He had taken over his brother’s shop, after his demise.



“So, it happened that on that fateful day, when he was returning from market, SARS operatives, who were on routine patrol, arrested him at Fegge area of Onitsha, and took him to their Awkuzu headquarters. We learnt that a good number of boys returning from that market that evening were also arrested.



“Again, I and my husband went to SARS headquarters. They confirmed to us that his name was among those arrested for allegedly belonging to MASSOB. “They told us to bring him food so that he would not starve. We kept talking food to him for about two weeks. Each time we went there, we would be tasked to bring money at the entrance gate, and also at the counter, before my son would be given the food. I had to pay dearly for the two weeks I took food to him at SARS.



“Finally after two weeks I was told by one of the officers to stop coming. He told me that they confirmed that my son was a MASSOB member, and that he had been killed! “It happened that my husband accompanied me that very day. When the information was broken to us – my husband collapsed. “Doctors at the popular Ndeli Hospital at Awkuzu, fought tirelessly before they could revive him.



From that very day, my husband started developing different health problems; but that is a story for another day. “Then again in October, 2014, my husband and I were alerted that our last son, Chibuike, who was about 18 years old then, was arrested by SARS operatives attached to Okpoko Police Station. “The information was that Chibuike was riding on a motorcycle with one of his friends, and that they were going to buy condemned iron materials, popularly called scraps, when they were overtaken by SARS operatives at the Upper-Iweka area of Onitsha, and was taken to the police station. “When we got to the station, we were told to come the next day; but when we got there the next day, the SARS commander at Okpoko told us that he had been transferred to their headquarters at Awkuzu.



We then went to Awkuzu, SARS operatives there confirmed that he was one those in their cell. My husband was permitted to see him and speak with him before we left that day. “So, I kept bringing food for him for a period of three weeks. On one of those days, one the officers, a woman, told me to stop spending my money and time coming to the station.



The officer was positioned at the entrance gate; so, when I was talking with my husband, she overheard us. That was how we got to know that she was from our area in Ebonyi State. “She told us frankly that our son died about four days after he was brought to SARS office, and that officers in charge of the cell were the people eating the food I was bringing for my son. She told us that our son was accused of being an armed robber, who had been in the wanted list of SARS.



“We insisted that we must enter SARS office, because, we were not convinced about the information. When we got to the counter, the cell officer came to take the food, but we told him that we must see Chibuike and speak with him.



“It was in the ensuing argument that we came to realize that our son was no more in their cell. When I and my husband begged them to show us the bodies of our children, nobody spoke to us; rather, we were pushed out of the station, after the officers had called us all sorts of names, including ‘corrupt parents,’ ‘parents of criminals,’ and so on.



“It was based on these developments that my husband left me. He went back to Ebonyi State some years back, and refused to come back to Onitsha till date. I am alone here managing my.” Speaking further she said: “During those years of persecution, we spent a lot of money. Friends and family members contributed money to assist us.



We also borrowed a lot of money trying to secure their bail. We spent over N900,000 in the hands of SARS; because, each time, they would ask us to bring, say, N150,000 or N200,000; promising that they would release the person; at the end, they would kill the person.



“That situation, coupled with indebtedness, forced my husband to leave Anambra State; because, he could not pay what we borrowed and creditors were disturbing us.” A human rights activist, Comrade Nweke Nweke, who is the Coordinator of the Oppressed Voice International (OVI), who also spoke with SundayTelegraph, said that the story of Mrs Ukamaka Obasi and her family was a sympathetic one.



According to him: “This kind of development was part of treasons I fell out with Awkuzu SARS. When the first son of Mrs Obasi was arrested in 2012, the family consulted me as an activist. I insisted that SARS must tell us what the boy did that warranted his arrest and detention; but the only offence they told me the boy committed was that he was one of the MASSOB members they were looking for.



“I challenged SARS that the boy in question was not arrested with any arms, and that nothing incriminating was found in him; that they should either take him to court or release him on bail. But the then SARS commander, James Nwafor, who, incidentally, comes from the same village with me, threatened that if I dared him further, he would rope me into the boy’s crime. “In order to make SARS release that boy, I took to the social media to publish the boy’s ordeal in the hands of Awkuzu SARS; yet, SARS did not hearken to our cries.



“They went ahead to murder the 20-year-old boy extra-judicially inside SARS office at Awkuzu.



“In 2013, the same woman had the same problem, when her second son was arrested. These boys in question were doing well in their businesses. They were the hopes of the family. Because of their family background, they couldn’t go further in education. The first son finished secondary school, and set up a business.



“He took the second son, who managed to finish primary six, and they were hustling to assist their parents; because, their mother was hawking petty items, while their father, Thomas, was a vulcanizer. “When the second son was arrested in 2013, we mounted the same pressure. Before we could know what was happening, SARS officers told us that the boy fell sick in the cell and died. We requested for the corpse, but they could not provide it. “Again, in 2014, the last one was picked by SARS.



The family also beckoned on me for assistance. He was arrested and taken to Okpoko SARS in Ogbaru LGA. As at then, the SARS commander in Okpoko station was one Mr. Anthony from Edo State, now retired. We approached him, discussed with him, and he told us to come the following day. When we went back the following day, he told us he was transferred to Awkuzu.



“His parents went to Awkuzu the following day; but I had to delay my going there. About three or four days later, I decided to go to SARS office myself to discuss conditions for his bail. “Unfortunately, immediately I got to the premises of Awkuzu SARS, I saw two SARS officers upstairs, while the boy in question was downstairs, naked. They hung a long rope on his neck, and were dragging him up as if they were fetching water from a well. And before they could release him, the boy forcefully passed stool and died.



“The third son of Mrs Obasi, my client, was strangled to death in my very presence. When I got home that day, I could not control my emotions; but as a man, I only told Mr and Mrs Obasi that SARS said we should come back later.” He narrated further, “People always tell me that I antagonized SARS. Yes, I did, because, I witnessed some of their extra-judicial killings in Awkuzu.



The time of James Nwafor and the time of Mr. Abang as SARS commanders in Awkuzu were the periods Awkuzu SARS was turned into an abattoir.



“When James Nwafor was at Nnewi as unit commander of SARS at the industrial city, he was also known for extra-judicial killings. Anybody in Nnewi will tell you this. I followed the activities of James Nwafor right from his days in Nnewi to his days in Awkuzu, before he retired.

“I cried constantly to the relevant authorities that Nwafor should be removed as SARS commander, that he was only there to kill; but nobody listened to me. People said I was saying so because I wanted to blackmail him.



The blood of innocent citizens murdered in Awkuzu SARS was responsible for the recent uprisings in different parts of Nigeria, in the form of #EndSARS. The innocent blood shed by SARS sparked the protests. The youths demonstrating all over Nigeria was actually mourning their colleagues, whose innocent blood was shed in Awkuzu SARS.

“In any civilized society, a crime suspect is assumed innocent until he is proven otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction. It was not so in SARS. It is an open secret that in the defunct Awkuzu SARS, youths were killed extra-judicially, and their kidneys and other relevant body parts were sold to rich men.



“The government must ensure that such things never happen again in the country. Government should see the recent uprising in the country as a big lesson. There are people, who were commissioners of police during James Nwafor’s reign of terror.



“Those people should also be invited for questioning; because, they never supervised the SARS, or, probably, they earned from the proceeds of corruption in SARS. If urgent steps are not taken, what happened in SARS will continue to happen in any other unit of the Nigeria Police Force.

2 Likes 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 3:54pm On Mar 17, 2023
Peter Obi should be in jail. He superintended over massive organ harvesting as governor of Anambra State.

6 Likes 2 Shares

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by gidgiddy: 3:55pm On Mar 17, 2023
Vivianat:
Peter Obi should be in jail

Ha

People like you make me laugh. The Nigerian Police is not under the control of any Governor, they are under federal control. SARS is not under the control of any State Government or Governor

You just read a story of many of the atrocities that SARS commited on people in their custody not convicted of any crime, illegal detention, torture and extra-judicial murder.

Rather than be angry that your own Nigerian Police are criminals in uniform committing all sorts of crimes from murder to torture to extortion, you are far more interested in calling Peter Obi who has no control of SARS?

Many are mad, few are roaming

4 Likes 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 4:00pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Ha

That's the fact

2 Likes

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Nobody: 4:02pm On Mar 17, 2023
Agbado retards and childish propaganda

1 Like 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Totilopussylick(m): 4:04pm On Mar 17, 2023
What actually brought me here is what I don't know

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Femmyfamous4u(m): 4:06pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Ha

People like you make me laugh. The Nigerian Police is not under the control of any Governor, they are under federal control. SARS is not under the control of any State Government or Governor

You just read a story of many of the atrocities that SARS commited on people in their custody not convicted of any crime, illegal detention, torture and extra-judicial murder.

Rather than be angry that your own Nigerian Police are criminals in uniform committing all sorts of crimes from murder to torture to extortion, you are far more interested in calling Peter Obi who has no control of SARS?

Many are mad, few are roaming

Yet you all claimed Sanwoolu gave the order to kill protesters.

7 Likes 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by gidgiddy: 4:09pm On Mar 17, 2023
Femmyfamous4u:


Yet you all claimed Sanwoolu gave the order to kill protesters.

I dont care what Sanwo-Olu said or didn't say, what matters is that your security forces are out there killing unarmed civilians they are paid to protect, in a democracy
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Houseontherock1: 4:14pm On Mar 17, 2023
Organ harvesting ring! It's so sad, too emotional! Poor woman

1 Like 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Betanaija42moro: 4:14pm On Mar 17, 2023
The OP is very big fool and does not know anything.

Is SARS under the control of state government.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 4:18pm On Mar 17, 2023
Betanaija42moro:
The OP is very big fool and does not know anything.

Is SARS under the control of state government.


Your brain is only filled with betting odds mkpi 🐐

4 Likes 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 4:19pm On Mar 17, 2023
Face Endsars panel Obi ran to collect black market court injunction against the masses seeking his explanation at the Endsars panel

5 Likes 1 Share

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by batstan(m): 4:23pm On Mar 17, 2023
grin grin

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Femmyfamous4u(m): 4:27pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


I dont care what Sanwo-Olu said or didn't say, what matters is that your security forces are out there killing unarmed civilians they are paid to protect, in a democracy

The president should be blamed for it.

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Racoon(m): 4:54pm On Mar 17, 2023
The NPF ought to have produced all the notorious policemen implicated in the SARS atrocities nationwide for prosecution as they are FG agency answerable to the FG and not state governors even if the CP are occasionally influenced by these overdrunk governors.

For those accusing Peter for the gruesome Akwuzu massacre, I keep on saying let the Police authorities arrest and produce the notorious Nwafor in court then let him implicate Peter Obi involvement in the bloodshed and Killings. Then let him answer accordingly as was the case with the EFCC invitation during the Pandora papers scandal.

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Jnkay: 5:22pm On Mar 17, 2023
Urchins are very confused. They thinks Obi is contesting election tomorrow. They left the person that is contesting with them in Lagos to lay propaganda against Obi😂😂😂
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by NigerianAngelo(m): 5:22pm On Mar 17, 2023
Vivianat,

If these things are true, Peter Obi should NOT become President.

He, Tinubu, Atiku are rejected.

Tinubu could have been manageable but he chose Boko Haram as deputy.


Anybody that ascends May 29, we manage. God knows we tried.

Tomorrow we shall have a Christian President, a good one.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Raf4: 5:46pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Ha

People like you make me laugh. The Nigerian Police is not under the control of any Governor, they are under federal control. SARS is not under the control of any State Government or Governor

You just read a story of many of the atrocities that SARS commited on people in their custody not convicted of any crime, illegal detention, torture and extra-judicial murder.

Rather than be angry that your own Nigerian Police are criminals in uniform committing all sorts of crimes from murder to torture to extortion, you are far more interested in calling Peter Obi who has no control of SARS?

Many are mad, few are roaming

But the Nigerian army, navy and Air force are under the control of Sanwo-Olu abi?

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by gidgiddy: 5:59pm On Mar 17, 2023
Raf4:


But the Nigerian army, navy and Air force are under the control of Sanwo-Olu abi?

But the are killing unarmed Nigerians like you no matter who they are under
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by harmonyglobal: 6:12pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Ha

People like you make me laugh. The Nigerian Police is not under the control of any Governor, they are under federal control. SARS is not under the control of any State Government or Governor

You just read a story of many of the atrocities that SARS commited on people in their custody not convicted of any crime, illegal detention, torture and extra-judicial murder.

Rather than be angry that your own Nigerian Police are criminals in uniform committing all sorts of crimes from murder to torture to extortion, you are far more interested in calling Peter Obi who has no control of SARS?
Then y are people blaming Sanwo olu, he had done well in Lagos but they want to use end Sars against him.

Many are mad, few are roaming
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Kapeter(m): 6:13pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Ha

People like you make me laugh. The Nigerian Police is not under the control of any Governor, they are under federal control. SARS is not under the control of any State Government or Governor

You just read a story of many of the atrocities that SARS commited on people in their custody not convicted of any crime, illegal detention, torture and extra-judicial murder.

Rather than be angry that your own Nigerian Police are criminals in uniform committing all sorts of crimes from murder to torture to extortion, you are far more interested in calling Peter Obi who has no control of SARS?

Many are mad, few are roaming
The double standard of you pro Ipob cum obidients is something else. So you mean you folks can boldly say that ordinary Nigerian police isn't in control of the state government but yet you can at the same time boldly claim and accuse both Sanwo Olu and Tinubu for deaths of protesters at Lekki Toll gate when we all clearly know that the Army and other armed forces is totally under the control of the president who doules as the CIC. WTF. Tinubu was never even in governm my at all but all of you till date still blame him for the so called deaths when the CIC is there at Abuja.

Oh my, I pity Yoruba obidients or the "Omo ales" as they call themselves that believe in your scam to sell out their own. It's a big shame

2 Likes

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Kapeter(m): 6:14pm On Mar 17, 2023
Racoon:
The NPF ought to have produced all the notorious policemen implicated in the SARS atrocities nationwide for prosecution as they are FG agency answerable to the FG and not state governors even if the CP are occasionally influenced by these overdrunk governors.

For those accusing Peter for the gruesome Akwuzu massacre, I keep on saying let the Police authorities arrest and produce the notorious Nwafor in court then let him implicate Peter Obi involvement in the bloodshed and Killings. Then let him answer accordingly as was the case with the EFCC invitation during the Pandora papers scandal.
SMH. But it was Sanwo Olu and Tinubu that were responsible for the killings at Lekki. Double standard oshi.

1 Like

Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Vivianat(f): 7:16pm On Mar 17, 2023
Kapeter:
SMH. But it was Sanwo Olu and Tinubu that were resemble for the killings at Lekki. Double standard oshi.
Was there any killing at the lekki tollgate during Endsars protests?
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by garykoeman: 7:18pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


But the are killing unarmed Nigerians like you no matter who they are under
This people hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by garykoeman: 7:24pm On Mar 17, 2023
Vivianat:
How Obi's Awkuzu SARS murdered my three sons in three years –Mother

Mrs Ukamaka Obasi, a native of Onueke, Ezea, in Ebonyi State, has recounted how the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Awkuzu, Anambra State, rendered her childless, after allegedly killing her three sons extra-judicially, between 2012 and 2014.
So Obi committed all this thing in anambra na God go judge am.



According to her: “On one fateful day in July, 2012, I came back to our residence at Umenweke Street, Okpoko in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, and was greeted with the news that my first son, Ebuka, was picked up by SARS operatives at his shop at Sokoto Road, Fegge, Onitsha, where he was selling clothes; based on the allegation that he was a member of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). “It was already very late so I couldn’t go that night.



So, the next morning, his father, Thomas Obasi, and I went to SARS headquarters at Awkuzu, where they confirmed to us that he was in their custody. They told us to continue bringing food for him until they finished their investigations, so that we would take him on bail. “We continued visiting him; bringing him some food items at each occasion. We did this for about one week. Each time I visited him, I would be made to pay N2000 at the counter before I would be allowed to give him food.



“However, on one of those days, when I brought food for him, one of the female officers there told me to stop bringing food for him, that he had been executed. “We (his father and I) wept uncontrollably before we left SARS office. We made several efforts to confront the authorities of the antirobbery unit to tell us the offence our son committed that led to his execution; but our efforts yielded no fruits.


Sadly till now we are still yet see his dead body. Honestly, it was very difficult then to convince people in our village that our son, who was 20 years old as at then, and was planning his traditional marriage in three months time, was arrested and killed by SARS, based on the allegation that he was a member of MASSOB.



“As if they were not done, it happened again that in August, 2013, about one year after the murder of our first son by SARS operatives in Awkuzu, our second son, Obiora, was also arrested by the same operatives. He had taken over his brother’s shop, after his demise.



“So, it happened that on that fateful day, when he was returning from market, SARS operatives, who were on routine patrol, arrested him at Fegge area of Onitsha, and took him to their Awkuzu headquarters. We learnt that a good number of boys returning from that market that evening were also arrested.



“Again, I and my husband went to SARS headquarters. They confirmed to us that his name was among those arrested for allegedly belonging to MASSOB. “They told us to bring him food so that he would not starve. We kept talking food to him for about two weeks. Each time we went there, we would be tasked to bring money at the entrance gate, and also at the counter, before my son would be given the food. I had to pay dearly for the two weeks I took food to him at SARS.



“Finally after two weeks I was told by one of the officers to stop coming. He told me that they confirmed that my son was a MASSOB member, and that he had been killed! “It happened that my husband accompanied me that very day. When the information was broken to us – my husband collapsed. “Doctors at the popular Ndeli Hospital at Awkuzu, fought tirelessly before they could revive him.



From that very day, my husband started developing different health problems; but that is a story for another day. “Then again in October, 2014, my husband and I were alerted that our last son, Chibuike, who was about 18 years old then, was arrested by SARS operatives attached to Okpoko Police Station. “The information was that Chibuike was riding on a motorcycle with one of his friends, and that they were going to buy condemned iron materials, popularly called scraps, when they were overtaken by SARS operatives at the Upper-Iweka area of Onitsha, and was taken to the police station. “When we got to the station, we were told to come the next day; but when we got there the next day, the SARS commander at Okpoko told us that he had been transferred to their headquarters at Awkuzu.



We then went to Awkuzu, SARS operatives there confirmed that he was one those in their cell. My husband was permitted to see him and speak with him before we left that day. “So, I kept bringing food for him for a period of three weeks. On one of those days, one the officers, a woman, told me to stop spending my money and time coming to the station.



The officer was positioned at the entrance gate; so, when I was talking with my husband, she overheard us. That was how we got to know that she was from our area in Ebonyi State. “She told us frankly that our son died about four days after he was brought to SARS office, and that officers in charge of the cell were the people eating the food I was bringing for my son. She told us that our son was accused of being an armed robber, who had been in the wanted list of SARS.



“We insisted that we must enter SARS office, because, we were not convinced about the information. When we got to the counter, the cell officer came to take the food, but we told him that we must see Chibuike and speak with him.



“It was in the ensuing argument that we came to realize that our son was no more in their cell. When I and my husband begged them to show us the bodies of our children, nobody spoke to us; rather, we were pushed out of the station, after the officers had called us all sorts of names, including ‘corrupt parents,’ ‘parents of criminals,’ and so on.



“It was based on these developments that my husband left me. He went back to Ebonyi State some years back, and refused to come back to Onitsha till date. I am alone here managing my.” Speaking further she said: “During those years of persecution, we spent a lot of money. Friends and family members contributed money to assist us.



We also borrowed a lot of money trying to secure their bail. We spent over N900,000 in the hands of SARS; because, each time, they would ask us to bring, say, N150,000 or N200,000; promising that they would release the person; at the end, they would kill the person.



“That situation, coupled with indebtedness, forced my husband to leave Anambra State; because, he could not pay what we borrowed and creditors were disturbing us.” A human rights activist, Comrade Nweke Nweke, who is the Coordinator of the Oppressed Voice International (OVI), who also spoke with SundayTelegraph, said that the story of Mrs Ukamaka Obasi and her family was a sympathetic one.



According to him: “This kind of development was part of treasons I fell out with Awkuzu SARS. When the first son of Mrs Obasi was arrested in 2012, the family consulted me as an activist. I insisted that SARS must tell us what the boy did that warranted his arrest and detention; but the only offence they told me the boy committed was that he was one of the MASSOB members they were looking for.



“I challenged SARS that the boy in question was not arrested with any arms, and that nothing incriminating was found in him; that they should either take him to court or release him on bail. But the then SARS commander, James Nwafor, who, incidentally, comes from the same village with me, threatened that if I dared him further, he would rope me into the boy’s crime. “In order to make SARS release that boy, I took to the social media to publish the boy’s ordeal in the hands of Awkuzu SARS; yet, SARS did not hearken to our cries.



“They went ahead to murder the 20-year-old boy extra-judicially inside SARS office at Awkuzu.



“In 2013, the same woman had the same problem, when her second son was arrested. These boys in question were doing well in their businesses. They were the hopes of the family. Because of their family background, they couldn’t go further in education. The first son finished secondary school, and set up a business.



“He took the second son, who managed to finish primary six, and they were hustling to assist their parents; because, their mother was hawking petty items, while their father, Thomas, was a vulcanizer. “When the second son was arrested in 2013, we mounted the same pressure. Before we could know what was happening, SARS officers told us that the boy fell sick in the cell and died. We requested for the corpse, but they could not provide it. “Again, in 2014, the last one was picked by SARS.



The family also beckoned on me for assistance. He was arrested and taken to Okpoko SARS in Ogbaru LGA. As at then, the SARS commander in Okpoko station was one Mr. Anthony from Edo State, now retired. We approached him, discussed with him, and he told us to come the following day. When we went back the following day, he told us he was transferred to Awkuzu.



“His parents went to Awkuzu the following day; but I had to delay my going there. About three or four days later, I decided to go to SARS office myself to discuss conditions for his bail. “Unfortunately, immediately I got to the premises of Awkuzu SARS, I saw two SARS officers upstairs, while the boy in question was downstairs, naked. They hung a long rope on his neck, and were dragging him up as if they were fetching water from a well. And before they could release him, the boy forcefully passed stool and died.



“The third son of Mrs Obasi, my client, was strangled to death in my very presence. When I got home that day, I could not control my emotions; but as a man, I only told Mr and Mrs Obasi that SARS said we should come back later.” He narrated further, “People always tell me that I antagonized SARS. Yes, I did, because, I witnessed some of their extra-judicial killings in Awkuzu.



The time of James Nwafor and the time of Mr. Abang as SARS commanders in Awkuzu were the periods Awkuzu SARS was turned into an abattoir.



“When James Nwafor was at Nnewi as unit commander of SARS at the industrial city, he was also known for extra-judicial killings. Anybody in Nnewi will tell you this. I followed the activities of James Nwafor right from his days in Nnewi to his days in Awkuzu, before he retired.

“I cried constantly to the relevant authorities that Nwafor should be removed as SARS commander, that he was only there to kill; but nobody listened to me. People said I was saying so because I wanted to blackmail him.



The blood of innocent citizens murdered in Awkuzu SARS was responsible for the recent uprisings in different parts of Nigeria, in the form of #EndSARS. The innocent blood shed by SARS sparked the protests. The youths demonstrating all over Nigeria was actually mourning their colleagues, whose innocent blood was shed in Awkuzu SARS.

“In any civilized society, a crime suspect is assumed innocent until he is proven otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction. It was not so in SARS. It is an open secret that in the defunct Awkuzu SARS, youths were killed extra-judicially, and their kidneys and other relevant body parts were sold to rich men.



“The government must ensure that such things never happen again in the country. Government should see the recent uprising in the country as a big lesson. There are people, who were commissioners of police during James Nwafor’s reign of terror.



“Those people should also be invited for questioning; because, they never supervised the SARS, or, probably, they earned from the proceeds of corruption in SARS. If urgent steps are not taken, what happened in SARS will continue to happen in any other unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by gidgiddy: 7:25pm On Mar 17, 2023
Kapeter:
The double standard of you pro Ipob cum obidients is something else. So you mean you folks can boldly say that ordinary Nigerian police isn't in control of the state government but yet you can at the same time boldly claim and accuse both Sanwo Olu and Tinubu for deaths of protesters at Lekki Toll gate when we all clearly know that the Army and other armed forces is totally under the control of the president who doules as the CIC. WTF. Tinubu was never even in governm my at all but all of you till date still blame him for the so called deaths when the CIC is there at Abuja.

Oh my, I pity Yoruba obidients or the "Omo ales" as they call themselves that believe in your scam to sell out their own. It's a big shame

In other words, what is important for you people is not that your own security forces are out there killing innocent Nigerians like you,what is important is if Sanwo-Olu was rightly or wrongly blamed for it?
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by garykoeman: 7:26pm On Mar 17, 2023
Vivianat:
How Obi's Awkuzu SARS murdered my three sons in three years –Mother

Mrs Ukamaka Obasi, a native of Onueke, Ezea, in Ebonyi State, has recounted how the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Awkuzu, Anambra State, rendered her childless, after allegedly killing her three sons extra-judicially, between 2012 and 2014.



According to her: “On one fateful day in July, 2012, I came back to our residence at Umenweke Street, Okpoko in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, and was greeted with the news that my first son, Ebuka, was picked up by SARS operatives at his shop at Sokoto Road, Fegge, Onitsha, where he was selling clothes; based on the allegation that he was a member of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). “It was already very late so I couldn’t go that night.



So, the next morning, his father, Thomas Obasi, and I went to SARS headquarters at Awkuzu, where they confirmed to us that he was in their custody. They told us to continue bringing food for him until they finished their investigations, so that we would take him on bail. “We continued visiting him; bringing him some food items at each occasion. We did this for about one week. Each time I visited him, I would be made to pay N2000 at the counter before I would be allowed to give him food.



“However, on one of those days, when I brought food for him, one of the female officers there told me to stop bringing food for him, that he had been executed. “We (his father and I) wept uncontrollably before we left SARS office. We made several efforts to confront the authorities of the antirobbery unit to tell us the offence our son committed that led to his execution; but our efforts yielded no fruits.


Sadly till now we are still yet see his dead body. Honestly, it was very difficult then to convince people in our village that our son, who was 20 years old as at then, and was planning his traditional marriage in three months time, was arrested and killed by SARS, based on the allegation that he was a member of MASSOB.



“As if they were not done, it happened again that in August, 2013, about one year after the murder of our first son by SARS operatives in Awkuzu, our second son, Obiora, was also arrested by the same operatives. He had taken over his brother’s shop, after his demise.



“So, it happened that on that fateful day, when he was returning from market, SARS operatives, who were on routine patrol, arrested him at Fegge area of Onitsha, and took him to their Awkuzu headquarters. We learnt that a good number of boys returning from that market that evening were also arrested.



“Again, I and my husband went to SARS headquarters. They confirmed to us that his name was among those arrested for allegedly belonging to MASSOB. “They told us to bring him food so that he would not starve. We kept talking food to him for about two weeks. Each time we went there, we would be tasked to bring money at the entrance gate, and also at the counter, before my son would be given the food. I had to pay dearly for the two weeks I took food to him at SARS.



“Finally after two weeks I was told by one of the officers to stop coming. He told me that they confirmed that my son was a MASSOB member, and that he had been killed! “It happened that my husband accompanied me that very day. When the information was broken to us – my husband collapsed. “Doctors at the popular Ndeli Hospital at Awkuzu, fought tirelessly before they could revive him.



From that very day, my husband started developing different health problems; but that is a story for another day. “Then again in October, 2014, my husband and I were alerted that our last son, Chibuike, who was about 18 years old then, was arrested by SARS operatives attached to Okpoko Police Station. “The information was that Chibuike was riding on a motorcycle with one of his friends, and that they were going to buy condemned iron materials, popularly called scraps, when they were overtaken by SARS operatives at the Upper-Iweka area of Onitsha, and was taken to the police station. “When we got to the station, we were told to come the next day; but when we got there the next day, the SARS commander at Okpoko told us that he had been transferred to their headquarters at Awkuzu.



We then went to Awkuzu, SARS operatives there confirmed that he was one those in their cell. My husband was permitted to see him and speak with him before we left that day. “So, I kept bringing food for him for a period of three weeks. On one of those days, one the officers, a woman, told me to stop spending my money and time coming to the station.



The officer was positioned at the entrance gate; so, when I was talking with my husband, she overheard us. That was how we got to know that she was from our area in Ebonyi State. “She told us frankly that our son died about four days after he was brought to SARS office, and that officers in charge of the cell were the people eating the food I was bringing for my son. She told us that our son was accused of being an armed robber, who had been in the wanted list of SARS.



“We insisted that we must enter SARS office, because, we were not convinced about the information. When we got to the counter, the cell officer came to take the food, but we told him that we must see Chibuike and speak with him.



“It was in the ensuing argument that we came to realize that our son was no more in their cell. When I and my husband begged them to show us the bodies of our children, nobody spoke to us; rather, we were pushed out of the station, after the officers had called us all sorts of names, including ‘corrupt parents,’ ‘parents of criminals,’ and so on.



“It was based on these developments that my husband left me. He went back to Ebonyi State some years back, and refused to come back to Onitsha till date. I am alone here managing my.” Speaking further she said: “During those years of persecution, we spent a lot of money. Friends and family members contributed money to assist us.



We also borrowed a lot of money trying to secure their bail. We spent over N900,000 in the hands of SARS; because, each time, they would ask us to bring, say, N150,000 or N200,000; promising that they would release the person; at the end, they would kill the person.



“That situation, coupled with indebtedness, forced my husband to leave Anambra State; because, he could not pay what we borrowed and creditors were disturbing us.” A human rights activist, Comrade Nweke Nweke, who is the Coordinator of the Oppressed Voice International (OVI), who also spoke with SundayTelegraph, said that the story of Mrs Ukamaka Obasi and her family was a sympathetic one.



According to him: “This kind of development was part of treasons I fell out with Awkuzu SARS. When the first son of Mrs Obasi was arrested in 2012, the family consulted me as an activist. I insisted that SARS must tell us what the boy did that warranted his arrest and detention; but the only offence they told me the boy committed was that he was one of the MASSOB members they were looking for.



“I challenged SARS that the boy in question was not arrested with any arms, and that nothing incriminating was found in him; that they should either take him to court or release him on bail. But the then SARS commander, James Nwafor, who, incidentally, comes from the same village with me, threatened that if I dared him further, he would rope me into the boy’s crime. “In order to make SARS release that boy, I took to the social media to publish the boy’s ordeal in the hands of Awkuzu SARS; yet, SARS did not hearken to our cries.



“They went ahead to murder the 20-year-old boy extra-judicially inside SARS office at Awkuzu.



“In 2013, the same woman had the same problem, when her second son was arrested. These boys in question were doing well in their businesses. They were the hopes of the family. Because of their family background, they couldn’t go further in education. The first son finished secondary school, and set up a business.



“He took the second son, who managed to finish primary six, and they were hustling to assist their parents; because, their mother was hawking petty items, while their father, Thomas, was a vulcanizer. “When the second son was arrested in 2013, we mounted the same pressure. Before we could know what was happening, SARS officers told us that the boy fell sick in the cell and died. We requested for the corpse, but they could not provide it. “Again, in 2014, the last one was picked by SARS.



The family also beckoned on me for assistance. He was arrested and taken to Okpoko SARS in Ogbaru LGA. As at then, the SARS commander in Okpoko station was one Mr. Anthony from Edo State, now retired. We approached him, discussed with him, and he told us to come the following day. When we went back the following day, he told us he was transferred to Awkuzu.



“His parents went to Awkuzu the following day; but I had to delay my going there. About three or four days later, I decided to go to SARS office myself to discuss conditions for his bail. “Unfortunately, immediately I got to the premises of Awkuzu SARS, I saw two SARS officers upstairs, while the boy in question was downstairs, naked. They hung a long rope on his neck, and were dragging him up as if they were fetching water from a well. And before they could release him, the boy forcefully passed stool and died.



“The third son of Mrs Obasi, my client, was strangled to death in my very presence. When I got home that day, I could not control my emotions; but as a man, I only told Mr and Mrs Obasi that SARS said we should come back later.” He narrated further, “People always tell me that I antagonized SARS. Yes, I did, because, I witnessed some of their extra-judicial killings in Awkuzu.



The time of James Nwafor and the time of Mr. Abang as SARS commanders in Awkuzu were the periods Awkuzu SARS was turned into an abattoir.



“When James Nwafor was at Nnewi as unit commander of SARS at the industrial city, he was also known for extra-judicial killings. Anybody in Nnewi will tell you this. I followed the activities of James Nwafor right from his days in Nnewi to his days in Awkuzu, before he retired.

“I cried constantly to the relevant authorities that Nwafor should be removed as SARS commander, that he was only there to kill; but nobody listened to me. People said I was saying so because I wanted to blackmail him.



The blood of innocent citizens murdered in Awkuzu SARS was responsible for the recent uprisings in different parts of Nigeria, in the form of #EndSARS. The innocent blood shed by SARS sparked the protests. The youths demonstrating all over Nigeria was actually mourning their colleagues, whose innocent blood was shed in Awkuzu SARS.

“In any civilized society, a crime suspect is assumed innocent until he is proven otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction. It was not so in SARS. It is an open secret that in the defunct Awkuzu SARS, youths were killed extra-judicially, and their kidneys and other relevant body parts were sold to rich men.



“The government must ensure that such things never happen again in the country. Government should see the recent uprising in the country as a big lesson. There are people, who were commissioners of police during James Nwafor’s reign of terror.



“Those people should also be invited for questioning; because, they never supervised the SARS, or, probably, they earned from the proceeds of corruption in SARS. If urgent steps are not taken, what happened in SARS will continue to happen in any other unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
Na God go judge Obi for this killings. Innocent blood on his head.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by alrahmanonline(m): 7:35pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


In other words, what is important for you people is not that your own security forces are out there killing innocent Nigerians like you,what is important is if Sanwo-Olu was rightly or wrongly blamed for it?
The Issue here is that you exonerated Obi and blamed Tinubu and Sanwoolu for the same thing. Please don't shift the goal post.
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Kapeter(m): 7:36pm On Mar 17, 2023
Vivianat:

Was there any killing at the lekki tollgate during Endsars protests?
Well I was far away in Abeokuta when it happened and I don't believe in propagandas. What I don't witness I won't say.

All that I'm saying is if Sanwo Olu and Tinubu are to be blamed for the killings as being carried then Peter Obi should also accept responsibility of the SARS killings under him
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by Kapeter(m): 7:39pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


In other words, what is important for you people is not that your own security forces are out there killing innocent Nigerians like you,what is important is if Sanwo-Olu was rightly or wrongly blamed for it?
These were not your words when it was time to defend him tu lie a.k.a pit obi. WTF
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by gidgiddy: 7:46pm On Mar 17, 2023
alrahmanonline:

The Issue here is that you exonerated Obi and blamed Tinubu and Sanwoolu for the same thing. Please don't shift the goal post.

Anyone who regards the fact that their security forces are cold blooded murderers, killing innocent civilians, is less of an issue, and is more interested if Obi and Sanwo-Olu were falsely or rightly blamed, has got to be a fool
Re: How Obi's Awkuzu SARS Murdered My Three Sons In Three Years –mother by alrahmanonline(m): 7:49pm On Mar 17, 2023
gidgiddy:


Anyone who regards the fact that their security forces are cold blooded murderers, killing innocent civilians, is less of an issue, and is more interested if Obi and Sanwo-Olu were falsely or rightly blamed, has got to be a fool
😂😂😂

(1) (2) (Reply)

BREAKING!! Peter Obi's Senior Lawyer, Dr Ikpeazu Lost A Case (VIDEO) / APC Caught Photoshopping Obi’s Picture As Part Of Tinubu’s Visitors (picture) / Gunmen Gun Down 3 Policemen, Cart Away Arms In Anambra (video)

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 143
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.