Brutally murdered

The “Apo Six” killing as people began to refer to the case shook the country at the time. To the public, it was another sad case of extra-judicial killing.

But life, as it was, for the families and loved ones of the victims – Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Augustina Arebu, Anthony Nwokike, Paulinus Ogbonna and Ekene Isaac Mgbe, would never be the same.

The crude reality has been tears. The night marked the beginning of month-long meetings, court appearances and adjournments, physical and emotional exhaustion, nightmares, and more deaths.

Worst still, families of the victims say justice is not yet served.

The friends headed for their usual rendezvous – a lounge at Grand Mirage Hotel at Port Harcourt street off Gimbiya street, Garki, Abuja.

It was there that the then Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Danjuma Ibrahim, allegedly began making romantic advances on Augustina, Ifeanyi’s fiancé.

It was her first visit to Abuja and her first meeting with her lover.

After a faceoff ensued when she turned down the love advances, Mr Ibrahim allegedly stormed out of the night club.

He went to the checkpoint at the end of the street and told officers on duty he had “sighted a group of armed robbers in the areas”, a report by the judicial panel of inquiry set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo revealed.

When the six unwary victims, on their way home, arrived at the Gimbiya checkpoint in a Peugeot 406 car, Mr Ibrahim allegedly had the car blocked and ordered the officers to shoot the occupants after an argument.

Four of them, unarmed, died at the spot in a blaze of gunfire.

Anthony and Augustina, who survived the initial onslaught were ‘finished off’ in the wee hours of June 8 by two police officers who claimed, “they attempted to escape from custody.”

Augustina was equally strangled, evidence showed.


The police hurriedly buried them at the back of their station to cover up their tracks but a panel of inquiry ordered that they be exhumed months later so as to run an autopsy.

The autopsy found that they were shot at close range contrary to police claim that they were armed robbers, “who they engaged in a gun battle at a distance.”

Mr Meniru, who survived the first onslaught quickly called his elder brother, Edwin, to inform him what was happening but life was also snuffed out of him by the rampaging cops.

He was shot at close range in the mouth.

“There is nowhere else to look except at the bodies. There is a close-up of a face, gaping exit-wound at the temple,” Amobi Nzelu, the then-lawyer to the victims’ families, was quoted in a BBC article of May 5, 2009.

Justice must be served!

Another wound reopened.

Chai!!

I remember the Alu 4 or 3 in PH too

All those involved in the cold blooded murder will pay pound for pound.

Hmmm...
Even if it takes another 50 years, victims of police brutality will get Justice.
As a starting point, we need to set up commemorations for each incident, both past and present.

#GetGoodGovernance
#endBadGovernance
#endPoliceBrutality
#endsars

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FP tins

The death of this guys still brake my heart
Young Innocent guys murdered in cold blood.

The lady was raped and strangled after torture, with 6 inches nail drived through her nose to the brain

matrix199:
Justice must be served!

It will be a cold day in hell! This is Nigeria remember!

matrix199:
Justice must be served!

Justice where? It has been buried by tribalism

DubaiLandLord:
Chai!!

I remember the Alu 4 or 3 in PH too

Unserious country. That too has been forgotten

Criminals.....they must be brought to justice.

The family of those officers who committed that act will receive their own
That's the only way the story go end if not the pain will still remain

6 young lives, snuffed out like that by the Police

Heard the senior Police officer involved has long been reinstated,promoted and all entitlements paid in full..


Nigeria!


These and tales like this one (which abounds) may well be the fuel propelling various agitations..

Nigeria is indeed sick with no remedy in sight

mightyhaze:
Heard the senior Police officer involved has long been reinstated,promoted and all entitlements paid in full..


Nigeria!


These and tales like this one (which abounds) may well be the fuel propelling various agitations..

Nigeria is indeed sick with no remedy in sight

Very true