The most outstanding issues in Anambra State today regarding the conduct of the incumbent Chief Security Officer and Governor Mr Peter Obi are:
1. Failure of Peter Obi to ensure effective investigation to unravel and/or disclose the whole truth about what happened to Igbo sons at Ezu River, whose naked and half clothed corpses were found floating on the river.
Governor Peter Obi's brutish and arbitrary resort to ordering and personally supervising the demolition of properties of people accused- but not yet tried or convicted- of crime in the state, and
The role and use of the SPECIAL ANTI ROBBERY SQUAD (SARS) based in Awkuzu in committing illegalities and crime in Anambra State.
These three issues highlight the growing tendency by the Anambra State Governor to treat human life and dignity with levity, to circumvent the due process and resort to lawless approaches of governance and law enforcement capable of dragging Anambra state back to the Stone Age characterised by savagery.
The Anambra state government's policy of arbitrary and illegal demolition of properties of persons accused of crime and the governor's failure to ensure exhaustive investigation to unravel the truth about the Ezu River floating bodies possess the ominous potential of entrenching the culture of lawlessness and impunity, leaving behind a legacy of violence and disregard for due process and human life and ultimately undermining- if not- reversing the march towards democratic and civilised governance.
Biafrans all over the world, stakeholders in Anambra state, relevant state and federal authorities must take appropriate legal and political actions to check Mr. Peter Obi's increasing recklessness and descent to savagery which will lead to a backlash that may be more difficult to deal with if allowed to become the norm of governance in the State.
THE UNRESOLVED EZU RIVER DEAD BODIES SAGA
It is an act of failure of responsibility on the part of the Anambra State Government not to have unraveled and made public the truth about the outrageous discovery of several floating dead bodies in Ezu River in January 2013. The danger in not unraveling this atrocity and bringing the perpetrators to justice is that those who perpetrated the heinous crime and others who may harbor or contemplate similar crime will be emboldened to repeat it. Public health and public safety are at stake here!
The bodies were first seen in the morning of January 19, 2013 by some indigene of Amansea in Anambra state who went to the river to fetch water.
Curiously, upon being informed of the floating dead bodies, the governor ordered their immediate burial, instead of ordering and/or ensuring an exhaustive investigation into the circumstances surrounding such horrific incident.
It is the responsibility of the governor, as the chief security officer of the state, to ensure investigation to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the discovery of such large number of human corpses floating in a river which is the main source of drinking water for neighboring communities. How did the victims die and who dumped their dead bodies in the river? To cover up such atrocity smacks of gross irresponsibility and complicity.
It is shameful and suspicious that up to date the actual number of the dead bodies is yet to be credibly determined. This is a pointer to the possibility that something is being hidden from the public. The failure by the governor to ensure a deeper digging into the allegation that the victims were detainees killed in police custody and their dead bodies dumped in the river by their killers is disconcerting and raises serious questions.
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) claimed that nine of the dead bodies found floating on the river were those of their members earlier arrested by security agents who raided their meeting venue and detained them at SARS Awkuzu. The ethnic self-determination and some civic groups in Anambra have conclusively asserted that the dead bodies were those of detainees extra judicially killed by SARS and secretly dumped in the river. We are surprised that the Anambra state governor has not taken this serious allegation which provides a clue seriously enough to ensure a credible investigation with a view to providing a proof or disproof for it.
The investigation conducted into the Ezu river incident by joint Senate Committees on Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence was perfunctory. And because it was shallow and unprofessional, it did not unravel any substantial or far reaching information that could lead to a resolution of the matter.
Despite the investigation by the joint Senate committees chaired by Senator Paulinus Igwe Nwagu and Senator Mohammed Magoro, certain basic facts are yet to be established.
The report did not reveal the identities of the victims, their actual figure and the circumstances around their killing: who killed them and dumped their dead bodies in the river. These and many other basic minimum findings should have been unravelled by any serious-minded and thorough investigation.
The Senate committees' investigation did not resolve the conflict in figures. While the IGP quoted 19 dead bodies, the DG SSS quoted 18. Other reports quoted 30 and more. How did the Senate committee, in its report, arrive at 19 instead of 30? It was also expected that the Senate Committee would require the police to account for the 9 MASSOB members they had in their custody before the discovery of the flloating corpses, since the police denied the allegation that they were among those whose bodies were allegedly dumped in the river.
How many family members of the victims did the committee visit and interview? How did they determine the type of gun used? Who shot them and why?
The Senate Committee and the Anambra State Commissioner for health stated that autopsy reports revealed that some of the corpses had gunshot wounds on them. Isn't this a useful clue which needed to be further explored forensically? A ballistic examination of the bullets extracted from the dead bodies will determine the type of guns used to kill them.
The Committee also reported that the gunshots 'aimed areas of the body: legs up to the knee cap and some up to the hips'. What did the committee make of this? Considering the strong suspicion of police complicity, why did the senate committee not consider it necessary to conduct or engage an expert to carry out an audit of suspects in police custody in SARS and other police stations in Anambra and Enugu states?
It appears that the police and the Anambra state government are reluctant to push the matter because there are strong indications that security agents are responsible for the killings.
The Anambra State Governor is yet to act on the senate committee's recommendation "That the Anambra State Government should also be encouraged to carry out a more thorough DNA test on the bodies as requested by the pathologists."
THE ROLE OF THE SARS IN ILLEGAL AND CRIMINAL ACTS IN ANAMBRA STATE
Governor Peter Obi and the authorities at SARS Awkuzu whose operatives operate as if they are above the law and beyond legal control and accountability. The failure by the Anambra state governor to ensure investigation into allegations that SARS Awkuzu was responsible for the killing of the people whose dead bodies were found in Ezu River and his use of the same SARS to provide security cover for the illegal demolition of people's property appear to underscore this unholy alliance.
The SARS is a section of the Zoo police under the Force Criminal Investigation Department and specifically charged 'to combat armed robbery and other heinous crimes nationwide.'
But SARS in all parts of Zoo have gained embarrassing notoriety tainting the image of the Zoon Police locally and internationally, and should either be scrapped or comprehensively reformed to conform to modern standards of policing or human rights-compliant policing.
SARS operatives are known for arresting people for all manner of alleged offences, torturing, extorting and executing suspects and detainees in their custody and secretely disposing of their dead bodies. They also dabble into civil disputes.
The police in SARS, Awkuzu, Anambra and many other places in the country are being used by politicians and other influential persons to victimize their opponents or to settle disputes that are purely civil or communal.
The IGP is not unaware of this serious human rights challenge. Shortly after his appointment as Acting IGP, he was quoted in several news reports as lamenting that ' 'Our Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS) have become killer teams engaging in deals for land speculators and debts collection...' The IGP should, as a matter of urgency, re-organize SARS and the entire anti-robbery operations of the Zoo police force, so as to insulate them from abuse of office.
21lucky: yorubas show their angers by voicing out their frustration on the President of Nigeria for his laziness and incompetent attitude toward the economy hardship in Nigeria and have vow that tinubu would not be re-elected in 2027.
Iyeku: Only Obidients are asking for Amupitan resignation, because they scare defeat.
Only bulaba @r$€ lickers are in support of amupitan because, they know amupitan is one of tinibu's puppets. And he will surely rig elections in favour of tinibu.
Lithiumite: Open your own thread and ask to be bullied by tinubu's achievements, this particular thread is asking for obi's achievements and you are all cowing behind one finger.... bloody hypocrites.
If I should open a thread now and ask to be bullied with tinibu achievements, you data boys will definitely runaway from such thread because you lots know that, there's really nothing to show. In fact, you his data boys will avoid the thread like plaque. So, it's better we thrash it out here and now.
Lithiumite: Bully him with pics of Peter obi's achievements not all this nonsense you are yapping on about,very simple question.....those kidnapped in benue from jamb exam have been released......bully him with pics of obi's achievements, thats all he is asking.
Why not bully him with tinibu's achievements as a sitting president that he is. You lots are the ones that suppose to be bullying us with tinibu achievements so that we can see reasons with you lots and vote him in 2027.
Basic123: You can open a thread on that.This thread if for peter OBI achievement
You want him to open a thread for that so, that you and your fellow data boys will avoid the thread like plaque You think we the sane minds don't know how you lots operate? We go dey bash Una on every Obi related thread una open, we go dey bring tinibu backwardness on top.
WizardOfNG: Indeed. Only those who are delusional believe Obi stands a chance of ever becoming President of Nigeria.
Obi could not develop his State to make it an attractive geographical spaces for economic migrants from across Nigeria.
Yet he wants to depose a President who has made Lagos a State most Nigerians want to live in that has 7th -8th biggest economy in Africa.
Obi's reality, specifically his monumental failings as a leader, only exposes the dysfunctional and warped thinking of his supporters.
Your chest beating is as a result of the rigging you data-boys know that, is going to take place in 2027 just like it happened in 2023. Your god tinibu has already appointed one of his puppets (amupitan) to head hi-neck
DomPerignon: Its amazing that Obi as governor kept moving from Anambra to Lagos , conveying raw cash to his office in Apapa and immediately after he completed his term, he moved permanently to his Osborne Flat in Ikoyi.
Why is Lagos more preferrable to Obi than his Alambla or even the Abuja he wants to rule from?
If he did so well for Anambra he would have been like the likes of Wike, Umahai, Amaechi, Tinubu, Fashola that don't miss a weekend going back to the states they governed.
Did they plant Obi's placenta in Lagos?
It's embarrassing that tinibu as a one-time governor and now president, chose UK as a place of treatment whenever he is ill. Conveying our taxpayers money to UK for medical bills and site seeing. I thought his data boys said he built Lagos? How come he couldn't build world class hospitals in Lagos for his routine treatments (since he always visit the hospital) and, why didn't he turn Lagos state into a world class city just like the places he always visit in UK?
Why is UK more preferable to tinibu that the Lagos they lied to us that he (tinibu) built?
Richtaiwo: The man is barely literate, which perhaps explains why a 4-year philosophy programme took him 6 years to complete, only to still graduate with a third-class degree.
Simple question, on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your chances of emerging victorious? Yet the semi-literate could not provide a straightforward answer and instead drifted into an unnecessary tale about the origins of agulu. How was he voted as a governor in the first place?
Oboy, see clean lips and teeth, can you show us that of timibu
attackgat: The Nigerian Army has expressed concern over what it described as the low level of enrolment from the South-East in the ongoing recruitment, revealing that Anambra recorded only 117 applicants out of 38,000 applications received nationwide.
This was disclosed during a sensitisation event held at the Ministry of Youths’ office in Awka, the state capital.
The leader of the army delegation to sensitise youths in Awka, Brig.-Gen. Uche Nnabuihe, said the figure was recorded as of April 7, before the commencement of a nationwide awareness campaign for the 91 Regular Recruits Intake.
Sunday PUNCH gathered that in April 2025, the Nigerian Army had raised concerns over the poor enrolment of South-East youths in its recruitment exercise. The leader of the 2025 army recruitment enlightenment team, Chima Ekeator, had said the South-East was gradually losing out on what was rightfully theirs.
Speaking during a town hall meeting in Enugu, Ekeator said out of 200 slots allocated to South-East states in last year’s recruitment, the region barely recorded 100 applications.
“Our people are losing what rightly belongs to them. Each year, whenever a slot is being allocated to our people, we keep noticing that the number of applicants from our side is usually very poor,” Ekeator said.
Speaking at the sensitisation on Saturday, Nnabuihe said the programme was aimed at encouraging more youths from Anambra and the South-East to participate in the recruitment, which is open to tradesmen and non-tradesmen, and will close on May 27.
He added that the sensitisation was intended to correct the imbalance and encourage youths to take advantage of the opportunities available in the Nigerian Army.
Nnabuihe said, “We observed with concern that out of 38,000 applications received nationwide, only 117 came from Anambra as of April 7.
“This sensitisation is to correct that imbalance and encourage our youths to take advantage of the opportunities available in the Nigerian Army.
“We urge eligible youths to apply. The Army offers a structured career path and opportunities for national service.”
Also speaking, Lt.-Col. Ogbemudia Osawe said the Army had expanded its training infrastructure with institutions in Abakaliki and Osogbo to accommodate recruits.
Osawe highlighted the benefits of joining the service to include career progression, regular pay and allowances, access to continuous military education, and specialised training.
Other benefits include exposure to diverse cultures, welfare packages, free medical care for personnel and their families, as well as pension and gratuity.
He added that personnel also have opportunities for international assignments.
In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Anambra State Ministry of Youths, Ifeatu Emodi, commended the initiative, describing military enlistment as crucial, especially for youths in the South-East.
Emodi said many young people in the region had shown declining interest due to misconceptions and misinformation about the Army.
A traditional ruler, Igwe Michael Okeke-Uche of Enugwu-Agidi, also lauded the welfare structure of the Nigerian Army and urged youths to enlist to ensure adequate representation of the South-East in the military.
Even the 117 individuals who were enrolled lack sufficient information. Had they been adequately informed, it is likely that they would not have chosen to participate.
Isobug: @the bolded, It's actually "is" not "his". Stop imposing your tongue to English language. Meanwhile, Why are you concerned if obi's lifestyle is a disadvantage to him? You should be happy that will make him fail, instead of being jittery
I so much love this bolded part Oya, Madridguy, answer his question
Lol.. they (APC) don finally admit say the crook professor actually have X handle And this is coming after tinibu data boys, don waste their ant strength and saliva fighting and defending lies and incompetence.
TITOPE: Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has sparked widespread reactions after speaking on the current security situation in the country.
According to him, the rise in insecurity is linked to the ongoing political season. He explained that as elections approach, tensions tend to increase, which can affect stability in some areas.
In his words:
“Insecurity is increasing because election is coming, because people don’t know what to do again. Immediately after election, two weeks after election, the insecurity will stop. The insecurity is being sponsored by people.”
Akpabio suggested that once the elections are concluded, the situation is expected to improve within a short period.
He also used the opportunity to criticize the opposition, saying they are not well organized. While speaking, he appeared to take a swipe at Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential election.
According to him:
“Opposition is in disarray, someone got six million votes and abandoned the party, abandoned the six million votes and went shopping for another platform and they are blaming the ruling party.”
Following his comments, many Nigerians have reacted online. While some people agree that election periods can increase tension, others believe security should be a top priority at all times and not something expected to improve only after elections.
The statement has continued to generate conversations, with many citizens calling for consistent efforts to ensure peace and stability across the country now, not later.
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Lols.. APC can never get tired of manufacturing lies and propaganda in their e√!l camp Akpabio, what kind of hook is making the insecurity not to stop now? Why must Nigerians wait till after the so-called election for the state sponsored insecurity to stop?
Decibel: INEC Chairman, Prof Amuputa caught tweeting on X platform with a Chatgpt generated content in response to the accusation of being biased by the leading opposition, ADC. Na professor of law, if you care to know.
Nigerians, this should tell you lots that, there will be nothing like free and fair elections next year. This current hi-neck chairman is one of tinibu's puppets.
ryloy: VIDEO: “Peter Obi paid content creators N5 million each to support him during the 2023 election,” — MC A1, a UK-based comedian, reveals shocking secrets.
Omo, and I thought that Peter Obi doesn’t give shishi 🤦♀️😭👇
VIDEO: “Peter Obi paid content creators N5 million each to support him during the 2023 election,” — MC A1, a UK-based comedian, reveals shocking secrets.
Tinibu don bribe this one for UK just to say nonsense This is the result of tinibu's frequent travel to UK more are still coming to say their own nonsense.
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