Casmir Uzomah, a staff in the technical department of Orient FM/Television, an Imo State-owned Broadcasting Station was alleged to have played a song calling the Governor "a vampire, a vulture that eats its kind," prompting the DSS to pick him up on August 4. He hasn't been seen since then......

Following queries by his family and colleagues, the Imo State Government has reacted:

GOVERNMENT OF IMO STATE

PRESS RELEASE

DETENTION OF IBC STAFF BY DSS: THE FACTS

In the past few days, the social media have been awash with demands for the release of one Casmir Chinonye Uzomah,a staff of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC),who was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for airing on the iBC radio station, Orient FM, a criminal, libellous and extremely subversive song against His Excellency, Sen Hope Uzodimma, the governor of Imo state, while on duty at the radio station. That was on August 04,2022.

Some of those ignorantly calling for his release have gone far enough to baselessly claim that he was detained on the orders of the state government.

For the avoidance of doubt, neither Imo state government nor Imo Broadcasting Corporation is responsible for the arrest of the said Casmir Chinonye Uzomah. He was arrested by the DSS for airing subversive material capable of threatening national security.

The DSS has confirmed that upon his arrest he made a written confession that the said offensive and damaging song he aired was given to him by some collaborators, in a flash drive, and he duly smuggled same into IBC studio and willfully caused it to be aired, in violation of the terms of his employment and the ethics of the broadcast industry.

This seditious and highly subversive song described the governor of the state, His Excellency, Senator Hope Uzodimma as a murderer, a vampire and sucker of blood. It was as bad as that, and indeed worse. Yet an employee of the government had the audacity to air the song in a state owned radio station. If that does not qualify for the height of impudence and willful subversion then nothing else can.

That was a clear case of criminal libel against a man who has never been accused of a high crime nor convicted by a court of law. The aim,of course, was not just to disparage the governor but to maliciously damage his reputation and to incite the public against the government.

Those who glibly talk of freedom and democracy in this matter are either ignorant of the potential crime of treason committed by Casmir Chinonye Uzomah or they are being hopelessly mischievous.

Indeed it may not be far from the truth to conclude that those in the forefront of the clamour for his release may indeed know how he came about the offensive song. This may well explain why they want him out of the hook fast enough so that they can obstruct further chances of getting to the root of who did what and why

It is instructive to note that apart from sabotaging his employers, Casmir Chinonye Uzomah also incurred the wrath of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC),which queried IBC for breaching its code.

These are the weighty issues at stake for which the DSS is carefully trying to get to its remote and immediate motives.
And from the explanation given by the DSS, the co- coconspirators,indicated by Mr Uzomah,in his statement, have been on the run. The DSS insists that they have to be apprehended and questioned alongside Casmir Chinonye Uzomah to establish their sinister motive.

It is therefore important that while we exercise the right to call for the release of a detainee, we must not sweep under the carpet the need to first establish the motive for the suspect's action, who his hasty released will most likely jeopardise investigations.

A man who ,acting in collaboration with some unscrupulous elements,could brazenly use a government"s station to incite the public against the Governor of the state, can as well plan to do something more dangerous using the same gang. This is why we think the DSS is right in insisting that it's important and urgent that he should help them track down his collaborators so that the motive behind their action can be unravelled and judiciously rested.

Hon Declan Emelumba
Commissioner for Information and Strategy

https://www.icirnigeria.org/imo-govt-reacts-after-icir-report-on-detention-of-ibc-staff/

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Lawyers in the house please what do you say

A 12 min audio:
The song as translated

The vulture who eats corpses
Hope the vulture who eats corpses
Hope Uzodinma
The vulture who eats corpses
Imo Vampire
The man who washes his hands with blood
He hosts visitors with blood
The Supreme Court Governor
The vulture who eats corpses, wants to kill all his brothers
A wizard who eats his own children

I knew Hope Uzodinma from 2004-2006 when I was into video coverage he was dealing in 419. I know him as a ritualist, this is the same man the Supreme Court gave us as Governor. Abomination.

Fr. Mbaka, come and see who you said God showed you will be Hope to Imolites. A well-known ritualist, and one of those who founded Yahoo+. He brought Fulani people to Imo and called them Ebubeagu. They have been killing Imolites especially in Orlu, there are no more youths there and that is where he hails from.

He should ask Rochas, who thought that if he sold his brothers, the Northerners will make him President, yet they disgraced him. We want to tell you Hope-One day, you will no longer be Governor, we will now see where in Imo State, you will live, it's better you go to the North to live because Imo won't contain all of us. He stole Imo State's money to buy watch of N457 million. Let us clap for someone who God created, buying what you will put on the hand yet he is owing workers and civil servants . See where our resources are been put to use.

Tears of Sorrow in Imo State. See how the Supreme Court gave us a murderer to govern us, a vulture that eats its kind, we have never seen before. Igboland is a land known for peace, but we now see blood flowing everywhere. Hope Uzodinma have said Peter Obi will not win in 2023, something bad will happen to you, no matter where you hide or how you protect yourself.

One day those people whom you and Ebubeagu have killed their parents, brothers, sisters and children will get to you no matter how far you run. The whiteman said: "Everyday is for the thief but one day is for the owner", we shall see.

If you are an Imolite and you are in Ebubeagu, something will hit you soon. If you are a youth, planning to vote APC or PDP in this 2023 election, the same people that brought Nigeria to this level, suffering shall never depart from you and your home. See I am in London, but the situation in Nigeria brings tears to my eyes.

Hope Uzodinma is a living dead, a walking dead, a heartless being, death that kills his brethren, death that killed Imo State, a vulture that eats its kind. For every one in the South East, without a knife or gun, listen to me , go and get one and keep at your bedside, because the Fulanis have surrounded you.

Be Prepared.

Hope Uzodinjo using the infamous decree 2 and 4 of 1984 to rule Imo state.

Wisdom is profitable to direct.
He thought that radio station is nairaland where you can say all manners of rubbish.

He will smell his yansh

Uzodinma, release him. He has a family......

Wisetrue99:
This is why newspapers called Buhari's administration"regime"

No more freedom of speech!

Nigeria is in coma, its at the verge of dying!

By the way Hope Uzodinnma has added another title to the one he has before

1. Supreme governor (former title)

2. IMO State vampire aka the one who washes his hands with blood. (Latest title)

He even has a former and present Chieftaincy title.....?