youthsanambra:
Martins Ezigwe
THE N5.76 BILLION QUESTION

Whose money was used to buy the newspapers so as to deny Anambra people the facts about Governor Obi and church politics? The chicken has come to roost. Let us not cry now, we should have listened to the plight of Nkerehi people since 2007.

The evil that men in power and resources do will live with them and after them. Governor Peter Obi knows the atrocities committed in Nkerehi by Dr. Godwin Maduka under the governor’s watch, permission, and empowerment. The culprit was church politics. The Nkerehi people refused to accept that the name of their town would be changed from Nkerehi to the so called “Umuchukwu” because a Catholic monastery was sponsored to be located in the town by Dr. Godwin Maduka. Under the governor’s watch, Dr. Godwin Maduka and his followers, armed with pump-action guns and other dangerous weapons, destroyed all the historical and ancestral landmarks and monuments in the town, including traditional shrines and antiquities.

They shot and killed several people in the town among whom one is yet to be buried since 2009. They arrested innocent Nkerehi people and charged them for murder and tortured and maimed them in Nigerian terrible jails for nine months before they were vindicated but none of those backed by the governor who committed the murder was ever arrested as we speak.

They finally ran the Nkerehi people out of the town into exile for two year and looted their homes and harvested their crops and denied them access to their homes and sources of livelihood. Those that died in exile including Chief Pius Onwu who died due to fatal injuries he received from Kenneth Maduka were denied the right to be brought home for proper burial as required by our Igbo tradition. Some of the dead remained in mortuary for two years before they were buried. The governor never cared about the plight of the Nkerehi people and he is yet to make a single statement about the atrocities under his watch and sanction. When the Nkerehi women in exile demonstrated in Awka, the governor’s media handlers saw to it that no journalist in Awka wrote anything about the demonstration, therefore we should not cry foul now about the suppression of negative information about the governor. That has been his modus operandi.

Dr. Richard S. Igwike
Nzeadachie 1 of Nkerehi