jerseyboy:
Igbo lives don't matter in Buhari's Nigeria

Were the killings done in Buhari's regime? Did Buhari ask the court to give the accused freedom? What about the Igbo officers among the accused?

cococandy:
And people wonder why Igbo people agitate for segregation

Even the officers involved in the killing were Igbos.

In the USA, does an accused become guilty even when he has been found innocent in that very criminal case?

Igbo's are in trouble

Hausa man ordered his Igbo boys to kill their fellow brothers cos their sister wouldn’t give him . Now he’s free and they shall die . So sad .

If a man was found not guilty and acquitted of a crime after a 12 year trial, shouldn't he be reinstated back to the role from which he was suspended for the duration of his sentence?

What's with all the emotions. The law is blind. The same courts that set this man free also found another 2 guilty of the crime and sentenced them to die.

Paying the man what was due him for the duration of his trial is only fair and should be encouraged.

Igbo lives matters

This is an offensive and tribalistic comment

JUSTICE4Nigeria:
same fate await so called igbo sell out

The FCT High Court, presided over by Justice Ishaq Bello, on Monday adjourned till March 9, judgment in the alleged extra judicial killing of six Apo traders.

At the adjourned date on Monday for the judgment, both the defence and prosecuting counsel were in court and the new date was taken for the judgment.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Attorney General of the Federation in 2005 charged six police officers to court for the alleged killing of the traders, now popularly referred to as “Apo Six”.

The accused persons were arraigned on a 9-count charge of conspiracy and culpable homicide, which contravened the provisions of Sections 97 and 221 (a) of the Penal Code Law.

The police officers standing trial in the case were: Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami , Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami.

They were charged with culpable homicide over alleged killing of the traders: Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami, now at large; Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel, and Sadiq Salami were alleged to have murdered the victims.

The Infra News has, however, learned that Ibrahim Danjuma, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) then in charge of presidential movement, who ordered the murders of the six Igbo youth, has been on medical bail for 12 years and has been spotted in social circles, living large and still drawing salary from the Nigerian Police Force.

The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation is accusing the police officers of killing Ifeanyi Ozo, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwokike and Augustina Arebun.

The deceased, aged between 21 years and 25 years, were returning from a night party in 2005 when they were allegedly killed.

The defendants had pleaded not guilty to the allegations, making the trial to go through full stretch of adjudication from 2005 to date.
The date was June 7, 2005, when the popular “Apo six’’ unaware of the terrible fate that lay ahead set out for a night of fun and merry making.

The nation woke up to the horrific news of their deaths at the hands of the police who claimed the five men and woman, gunned down were armed robbers who opened fire first.
The case which came to be known as ‘Apo Six’ captured the attention of the public for a long time.

Following the deaths and the subsequent public outcry, an official panel of inquiry was set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Five officers accused of the killings and eight other police witnesses eventually testified that the senior officer involved, Ibrahim allegedly ordered the killings.

The report of the panel held that the victims were at a nightclub located at Gimbiya Street, Area 11 in Abuja on the night of the incident.
The panel further had it on its record that the face-off between Ibrahim and the group allegedly started when the female victim (Augustina) turned down the senior police officer’s love advances at the club.

The testimonies of the witnesses that formed part of the panel’s report also said that Ibrahim’s pride and ego was bruised by late Augustina’s refusal to accept his love proposal and, therefore, set out for revenge.

The report also said Ibrahim had allegedly gone to a police checkpoint at the end of the street and told officers on duty that they were a group of armed robbers in the area.

According to the report which forms the bulk of the evidence in court, when the six young people came in their car, Ibrahim allegedly drove into them, blocking their way and ordered the police officers to shoot.

Four of the six died on the spot while Ifeanyi and Augustina had survived the initial onslaught. The report had it that Ifeanyi had called his friends after surviving the burst of gunfire but that was the last they were to hear from him.

NAN reports that police officers had testified at the criminal trial that Ifeanyi and Augustina were taken to a piece of rough ground outside town where they were executed.

The officers had allegedly planted guns on the bodies of all six of the bodies and pictures were taken of them by a police photographer.

NAN reports that the photographer who took the pictures was later to raise an alarm and release the pictures.

In a curious twist, Mr Anthony Edem, one of the officers close to the case was poisoned after deciding to confess.

An autopsy report from the National Hospital Abuja confirmed he died of poisoning which also formed part of the numerous exhibits before the court.

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.”

Apology

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.



“My friend was going to the bush, to go to the toilet, when he saw the police digging a hole and preparing to bury some people”
Elvis Ozor

Younger brother of Ifeanyi

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.

The government paid $20,300 (£13,800) compensation to each of the families.

It recommended the officers be arrested and face a criminal trial.

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.

Tight-knit

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.



APO SIX TIMELINE
7 June 2005: 2200 Apo Six meet Danjuma Ibrahim at a party

8 June: 0200 Four shot at police roadblock

0400 Ifeanyin and Augustina seen alive at Garki police station

1100 Police try to bury six in a cemetery near Apo

Two days of rioting in Apo and Garki districts

13 June: Police begin internal investigation

24 June: President Obasanjo orders inquiry

5 July: Police witnesses testify the six were slain in cold blood

6 July: Police armourer admits weapons planted on bodies

13 July: Court rules the suspects will face trial

15 December: Bodies buried by families

18 January 2006: Trial of police officers begins

3 August: Danjuma Ibrahim released on “exceptional and special” medical bail

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 to bury some people,” Elvis says.

“They recognised my brother. When the police said they were armed robbers, no-one believed them – they knew 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,” he says.

The story was out, and an angry mob gathered.

There was a riot in Apo and the police shot 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 Danjuma Ibrahim 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 Ozor’s friends.

Ransom demand

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.



Danjuma Ibrahim was a high ranking police officer in the Nigerian Police

Ifeanyin called his friends after he survived the first burst of gunfire, they testified.

Who actually fired the shots is still disputed by Danjuma Ibrahim’s lawyers, but four of the six were killed there, the prosecution says.

Ifeanyin and Augustina were taken to a police station.

Officers called Augustina’s family to demand a 5,000 naira (then $43, £22) ransom to let her go, according to a report by the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial execution.

Her family could not raise the money.

They were taken to a piece of rough ground outside town where they were executed, police officers testified at the criminal trial.

Augustina was strangled.

Then the police planted guns on the bodies of all six of the bodies and pictures were taken of them in the grounds of a police station by a police photographer.

Danjuma’s defence

At the criminal trial, Mr Ibrahim’s lawyers maintained that the Apo Six fired first.

He says all of them were killed in the gun battle, and a “home made” pistol and a shotgun were found in the car.




Extra-judicial killing in the police remains a shockingly common occurrence



Eric Guttschus

Human Rights Watch

His lawyer Hyeladzira Nganjiwa says the prosecution dropped charges against some police officers in return for them changing their testimony.

Mr Ibrahim is the fall guy in a government plot to sweep the incident under the carpet, he said.

“I could never have done what they are accusing me of,” Mr Ibrahim told the BBC outside the Abuja court where he is being tried.

He was released on medical bail in 2006, after his lawyer said he had a heart condition.

The five other accused – one of whom is now dying of Aids, according to his lawyer – remain in police custody.

That trial has been going on for almost three years.

After hearing the testimony of eight prosecution witnesses, the defence is now cross-examining the first.

Lawyers say the case is being stalled so it will eventually be forgotten, and the charges dismissed.

‘Stalling’

In this case people accepted the victims were not armed robbers because they came from a close community.

But in other less high-profile cases, the public turns a blind eye to police killing, human rights advocates say.

The reluctance to punish police officers “emboldens” other officers to kill, says Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch.

But the police say a great deal has changed since Apo Six case.

“The police have a higher respect for human rights than before,” says spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu.

“I am not aware of any recent cases of extra-judicial killing.”

Divine justice?

Mr Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch, which tracks alleged cases, disagrees.

“Extra-judicial killing in the police remains a shockingly common occurrence.”

He says the police lack the capacity to properly investigate crimes, and because of the pressure from society to deal with violent criminals, they simply dispose of suspects without the encumbrance of trials.

“[A] Nigerian’s guilt or innocence is immaterial,” he says.

Elvis Ozor says he has given up on the judicial system.

“When Danjuma was released, I forgot everything about the case.”

“The only way justice will be delivered is from God.”

efighter:


Were the killings done in Buhari's regime? Did Buhari ask the court to give the accused freedom? What about the Igbo officers among the accused?

there were no Igbo officers amongst the accused, Nigerians should learn how to read and comprehend

Hmmm...Nigeria I hail thee. A country were illegality becomes legal.

PFRB:
Those who can speak for you are all hailing Buhari'

Sadly, it is not about Buhari, it is about the stinking judiciary and the cash and carry judges.

I feel very bad about the reinstatement of this animal called Danjuma but the relatives and town unions of the deceased people should fight this case to the Supreme court.

cococandy:
And people wonder why Igbo people agitate for segregation

two of the officers involved in this heinous murder are igbos. what are senior ranking police officers doing at a check point? i think the apo six saw some thing they were not supposed to see, or heared something they where not supposed hear. i weep for the judicial and law enforcement arm of our country. this is travesty of justice, what a dissaster.

God is watching......

I'm not surprise one bit. Was it not in this zoo Maina was reinstated secretly?

BafanaBafana:
Let's have facts before we pick faults.
Of the 5 policemen involved in the case, 2 were found guilty and sentenced to death whlie ACP Danjuma Ibrahim with 2 others were set free, discharged and acquitted by the court.
So what's the fuss about the police reinstating an officer who was dismissed for a crime but was later found to be "innocent "?

I don't blame u

U are defending ur terrorist brothers

Rapists..........I spit on u hausa fulanis.....u people sucks......

God forbid

NaijaEfcc:
By Saharareporters, New York Nov 23, 2017




http://saharareporters.com/2017/11/23/apo-six-nigeria-police-reinstates-officer-who-killed-igbo-traders

I hope Nigerians aren't shocked.

BafanaBafana:
Let's have facts before we pick faults.
Of the 5 policemen involved in the case, 2 were found guilty and sentenced to death whlie ACP Danjuma Ibrahim with 2 others were set free, discharged and acquitted by the court.
So what's the fuss about the police reinstating an officer who was dismissed for a crime but was later found to be "innocent "?

FACT;If the nigerian police find a high profile criminal being housed by, say,a relative unknowingly,the chances they'll both be paraded as hoodlums by the 'world bestest policeTM' before proper investigation is 90% and that is if they both are not paraded dead,half unclad after being arrested alive and more often than not we tend to think that the innocent one is guilty by association.so now tell me why the most senior officer that led a team of murderous policemen is being reinstated when he was right there among them when,according to their(police) own account of events,two subordinates took their time to open fire on the first,second,third victim unrestrained? The man whose apologist in the force will have us all disregard the fact this atrocity happened under his watch.And did he not know as at the time of the incident to have the killer cops arrested or was the police report that labelled the victims robbers to save their corrupt head not written 'after thorough investigation'without the imput of the head of the patrol team?compare this decision to reinstate this character to that of the army's refusal to reinstate general kuti who made a decision he thought was best for the wellbeing of his ill equipped troop in the line of fire.what do we get in this instance?all the junior officers charged alondside him gets cleared eventually and reabsorbed while the most semior officer is still out cold despite,as we read on nairaland, the court martial panel acknowledging the fact general kuti had made complaints about armoured tank not equipped for battle weeks earlier.so we have one rule for the NORTHSIDE and another for those who are NOT FROM THEIR SIDE.APO 6,Aluu 4,God when will this end when justice is still being denied innocents sent to their untimely deaths.kill them and label them armed robbers,where are they to defend themselves?

Thank God I don't live in that rubbish of a Country. Where is the deterrent? By this singular action, you have given other police officers the permission to hunt down innocent people and kill them like animals.

Another 'gate' rolling I suspect his name may have been smuggled into the wireless message

So what really happened that night? Are we to believe the victims were armed robbers without plausible evidence?

NaijaEfcc:
Oh dear ! Oh dear !! What is going on!!! he is not only reinstated but will be paid arrears of salary from 2005 !!!! And sent on a refresher course!!!!

When he gets back from the refresher he will be promoted in acceleration to catch up with service year and rank.

No be the same thing happened to Al Mustapha under GEJ?

We shouldnt make this a Northerner thing. Worse happened under GEJ.

Al Mustapha was freed, reinstated to his rank and paid arrears. Then he was allowed to retire to collect full pension.

Kabiru Sokoto, bokoharam mastermind of Church bombing in Madalla, his escape was facilitated by police chief and then get this.... he was recaptured in a State Government guest house where he had been living as a guest.

The government will deny any knowledge of the recall and soon a commission of inquiry will be opened to look into the matter.

BafanaBafana:
Let's have facts before we pick faults.
Of the 5 policemen involved in the case, 2 were found guilty and sentenced to death whlie ACP Danjuma Ibrahim with 2 others were set free, discharged and acquitted by the court.
So what's the fuss about the police reinstating an officer who was dismissed for a crime but was later found to be "innocent "?

I suggest you read the article again
The fuss is that he is glaringly guilty of the crime,even the police witnesses indicted him, yet somehow he managed to go scot free , if you are a relative of the deceased would you not make a fuss

Let me hear from any Id*iot who would say One Nigeria! Nigeria is for the north and owns by the north!

The north is the cancer this country has!! Until these criminals are removed from all important offices, they will continue to do whatever they like and cause more damage to this moribund Zoo called Nigeria!!

BafanaBafana:
Let's have facts before we pick faults.
Of the 5 policemen involved in the case, 2 were found guilty and sentenced to death whlie ACP Danjuma Ibrahim with 2 others were set free, discharged and acquitted by the court.
So what's the fuss about the police reinstating an officer who was dismissed for a crime but was later found to be "innocent "?

Do you have a link where I can read about this judgement?

jerseyboy:
Igbo lives don't matter in Buhari's Nigeria

Any non-Fulani life does not matter to bubu and his 40 thieves cabal who own naijeriya and are born-to-rule all of us their slaves in the south and middle belt.
We are in deep shiit.


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MayorofLagos:
When he gets back from the refresher he will be promoted in acceleration to catch up with service year and rank.

No be the same thing happened to Al Mustapha under GEJ?

We shouldnt make this a Northerner thing. Worse happened under GEJ.

Al Mustapha was freed, reinstated to his rank and paid arrears. Then he was allowed to retire to collect full pension.

Kabiru Sokoto, bokoharam mastermind of Church bombing in Madalla, his escape was facilitated by police chief and then get this.... he was recaptured in a State Government guest house where he had been living as a guest.

It is a northerner thing.
How many southerners were so treated with BIZARRE favour without everyone screaming and kicking until it is REVERSED?
Does it not show that naijeriya is owned by the foolanis?
#RestructureNow.


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(Apo Six: Nigeria Police Reinstates Officer Who Killed Igbo Traders[i][/i]) MUST YOU REALLY ADD KILLED AN IGBO TRADER... LOL NIGERIANS WITH LOT OF SH*TS... ANYWAY R.I.P TO THE POLICE OFFICER IN ADVANCE COS HE AINT GONNA MAKE IT LONG

nigma23:
I suggest you read the article again
The fuss is that he is glaringly guilty of the crime,even the police witnesses indicted him, yet somehow he managed to go scot free , if you are a relative of the deceased would you not make a fuss

In naijeriya, the owners go scot free with the murder of anyone at anytime.
Murtala Muhammed and Buhari murdered in cold blood their fellow Igbo soldiers in Ikeja cantonment in July 1966.
They both became Head of state with the face of one on our currency note. The other is ruling ruining us a second time around after ordering the almajiris, whom they refuse to educate, to soak baboons and dogs in blood.
#RestructureNow.


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NaijaEfcc:
Oh dear ! Oh dear !! What is going on!!! he is not only reinstated but will be paid arrears of salary from 2005 !!!! And sent on a refresher course!!!!

That is what happens when you have someone like buhari as president

MayorofLagos:


When he gets back from the refresher he will be promoted in acceleration to catch up with service year and rank.

No be the same thing happened to Al Mustapha under GEJ?

We shouldnt make this a Northerner thing. Worse happened under GEJ.

Al Mustapha was freed, reinstated to his rank and paid arrears. Then he was allowed to retire to collect full pension.

Kabiru Sokoto, bokoharam mastermind of Church bombing in Madalla, his escape was facilitated by police chief and then get this.... he was recaptured in a State Government guest house where he had been living as a guest.

Who did Al Mustapha kill? All these anti-GEJites sef.