In one of the most publicised
cases of extra-judicial killings
in Nigeria, six traders: Ifeanyi Ozor; Chinedu Meniru; Isaac Ekene; Paulinus Ogbonna; Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun, were allegedly killed by a team of
police officers on patrol in 2005 while the traders and a girlfriend were driving home from a night out in Abuja.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), [b]Ibrahim Danjuma, as well as police officers: Ezekiel Acheneje,
Baba Emmanuel, Sadiq Salami, and Mr Abdulsalami, [/b]are standing trial on charges of culpable homicide for
allegedly killing the victims.

Dennis Asawa, a Police
Constable, revealed that the
DPO, Othman Abdulsalam,
who is still the run made
him forge two of his statements to deflect suspicion from one of the
officers accused of murdering
the traders. Mr. Asawa told
the trial judge, Ishaq Bello,
that he made a total of three
statements at both the Force
Criminal Investigation Department and the State Criminal Investigation
Department but only his third statement was voluntary.


www.nairaland.com/465778/police-admit-lying-apo-six


Abuja — The FCT High Court Maitama, Abuja, yesterday fixed June 2015 as the deadline to hear all defences in the Apo Six suit.
The judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, said the deadline was to avoid unnecessary adjournment of the case.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN ,
recalls that the Attorney-General of
the Federation in 2005 charged six
police officers before the court for
allegedly killing six Apo traders.
At the resumed hearing on Tuesday,
Bello gave all accused persons who
desired to submit applications on no case submission three days to do it.
The judge urged lawyers in the matter to reply all filed applications within seven days of receipt of such
applications.
He adjourned the case till March 17
for adoption of no case submission.
The police officers standing trial are:
Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman
Abdulsalami , Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami.
The were accused of killing Ifeanyi
Ozo, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene,
Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwokike and Tina Arebun.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/apo-six-court-sets-june-deadline-for-hearing-of-defences/

Justice delayed is justice denied!

Not in this regime.

ONLY GOD KNOWS

See what BBC had to say in 2009


In the fourth of a series of articles
looking at policing in Nigeria, the
BBC's Andrew Walker asks what
happened to the "Apo Six", the
most infamous case of extra-judicial
killing in Nigeria's history:
The pictures are truly gruesome - we
cannot publish them.
Lawyer Amobi Nzelu spreads the
glossy prints out on his desk, covering it with horror.
There is nowhere else to look except
at the bodies.
There is a close-up of a face, gaping
exit-wound at the temple.
Limbs and torsos covered in blood.
Dead eyes stare upward.

"This is a human being," he says.
"Look what they did."

The bodies belong to six young
Nigerians killed by the police.
Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Ifeanyin Ozor,
Chinedu Meniru, Paulinus Ogbonna
and Anthony and Augustina Arebu
were killed on 7 and 8 June, 2005.


The police tried to say they were
armed robbers who had opened fire first.
But a judicial panel of inquiry set up
by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo rejected the police's story
and the government apologised on
behalf of the police for their killings.


But nearly four years since the night
the Apo Six were killed, the trial has
got nowhere.
The public has almost forgotten the
case is still going on.
Danjuma Ibrahim, the senior police
officer accused of ordering the killings, lives free on medical bail.
And the families of the dead have all
but given up on justice.

Elvis Ozor is the younger brother of
Ifeanyin Ozor.
Like his brother, he works as a spare
car parts merchant in the Apo
mechanics' village, south of the
capital, Abuja.
It is a kind of shanty-town of sea
crates and workshops where five of
the Apo Six worked.

This is a tight-knit community, mostly of ethnic Igbos from Nigeria's south-east.
On 8 June 2005 the Apo mechanics
found the police burying their friends in a cemetery that, by chance, was near their workshops.
"My friend was going to the bush, to
go to the toilet, when he saw the
police digging a hole and preparing tobury some people," Elvis says.

"They recognised my brother. When
the police said they were armed
robbers, no-one believed them - theyknew my brother was not like that."
"When I arrived at work, word had
spread, but I didn't know. I arrived
and everyone was looking at me," hesays.
The story was out, and an angry mob gathered.
There was a riot in Apo and the policeshot two more people dead.
Unlike any other case of suspected
extra-judicial killing in Nigeria, some of the police broke ranks and turned on the senior officer involved. The other five officers accused of the murders and eight more police witnesses have testified that DanjumaIbrahim ordered the killings.

During the judicial panel hearings,
some Igbo police officers fed
information to Mr Nzelu, who
represented the families of the Apo
Six.
The panel heard that the six were at a nightclub in Abuja's Area 11 when Mr Ibrahim - then off duty -
propositioned Augustina.
She turned him down, according to the testimony of Ifeanyin Ozo's friend
Mr Ibrahim went to a police
checkpoint at the end of the street
and told officers there were a group
of armed robbers in the area.
When the six young people came in
their car, he drove into them, blocking
their way and ordered the police
officers to shoot.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8025260.stm

The face of Ibrahim danjuma the murderous policeman.

The reason why policemen and soldiers feel bold to shoot unarmed civilians is because they are actually encouraged by the fact that THEY WILL NEVER BE RIGHTFULLY PROSECUTED, HANGED OR JAILED.
Do your findings, more extrajudicial murders by police and soldiers have taken place since Apo six which even got international media attention. Many have gone either under-reported or unreported.

According to the same bbc source..
The reluctance to punish police
officers "emboldens" other officers to kill, says Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch.

An evil mod move this away from the politics section to deny it adequate viewership. One nigeria isn't it? God dey watch una

Where is Othman Abdulsalam by the way?

Since the justice system have refused to bring this murderers to book, won't it be righful and just if one of the relatives of the deceased begins an independent hunt to find Othman Abdulsalam and Danjuma Ibrahim to serve 'quick justice' to them wherever they are found?

Hmmm