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The families of the six traders in Apo, Abu­ja, popularly known as “Apo Six”, who were allegedly murdered by some policemen led by the Dep­uty Commissioner of Police (DCP) in-charge of Oper­ations, Mr. Danjuma Ibra­him, 12 years ago, have said that “there can be no justice in the matter again having waited for more than a dec­ade to secure justice at the Abuja High Court.”

Five traders and the fi­ancée of one of the victims were on June 8, 2005, killed by trigger-happy policemen at Gimbya Street, Area Elev­en, Abuja, when they were returning from a nearby night club.
A police probe panel chaired by then Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Mike Okiro had found the policemen cul­pable and recommended their immediate dismissal from the NPF.

Similarly, a Judicial Pan­el of Inquiry setup by the Fed­eral Government against the backlash of protests resulting from the killings, chaired by Justice Olasumbo Goodluck, also confirmed the indict­ment by the Okiro Panel and asked the government to ten­der a public apology and pay N3 million compensation to each of the deceased families, which the government com­plied with.
But, 12 years after the ac­cused were charged to court, the matter has suffered sever­al adjournments, leading to re­sentments being expressed by the families of the deceased.
Rising from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court session on Monday, which again postponed judg­ment on the matter, the fami­lies of the victims stormed The AUTHORITY Newspapers’ corporate office in Abuja, in­sisting that “there must have been more to it all,” adding that “there can never be justice after 12 years of delay in delivering judgment on this matter.”
They stated that “with the unnecessary delays being expe­rienced on this matter, with the judge being ready every time to accept an adjournment, we are convinced that those who killed our brothers are actual­ly above the law and that there will be no justice at the end in this matter.”
“The court of law, as they say, is the last hope of the com­mon man, but the way the whole matter is being delayed, we can’t understand what is be­hind it.”
“How can anyone tell us that one of the senior police officers that killed our rela­tions will be walking about the streets in Abuja freely, while we are still brooding over our late relations 12 years after they were gruesomely murdered?
“We even heard that this man is a consultant and con­tractor with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and this man was im­mediately granted bail and he has been moving about doing his normal business as if noth­ing mattered, while our fam­ilies groaned endlessly over these losses and the court is not helping matters through endless adjournments.
“We appeal to the Federal Government and well-mean­ing Nigerians to remind the court that this type of delayed judgment is no longer justice. Justice delayed is justice denied and we have witnessed it our­selves. We don’t know what else to do but, we have decided to handover this matter to God.
“Whatever they like and whenever they like, let them deliver whatever judgment they want to deliver. That cer­tainly is no justice. But God will judge all of us,” the families’ spokesman, Mr. Elvis Raphael Ozor, stated.
This expression of disen­chantment was made after an Abuja High Court, headed by Justice Ishaq Bello, on Mon­day adjourned the matter till March 9, 2017.
The court had earlier scheduled judgment on the al­leged extrajudicial killing of the victims but informed the par­ties that the judgment was not ready yet.
The accused were ar­raigned on a nine-count charge of conspiracy and culpable homicide, which the prosecu­tion led by Chief Chris Uche (SAN) submitted, contra­vened the provisions of Sec­tions 97 and 221 (a) of the Pe­nal Code Law.
The police officers stand­ing trial are DCP Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsala­mi, Nicholas Zakaria, Ezeki­el Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami.
They were accused of cul­pable homicide over the al­leged killing of Messrs Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, An­thony Nwodike and Miss Au­gustina Arebun.