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An investigative journalist is revisiting the famous Eddie Nawgu case. The stories here got me really wondering…

This November makes it 24 years since a once-popular spiritualist Eddie Okeke - also known as Eddie Nawgu - was arrested (and some say, abducted) and allegedly summarily executed by the Bakassi Boys in Anambra State. At the time of Eddy Nawgu’s death in November 2000, Bakassi Boys had been legally recognised as a vigilante outfit for Anambra State via a special law in August of that year according to a Sahara Reporters article in 2022.

The case appears to have been mostly forgotten since then. So, this is to revisit it after almost a quarter century with the hope of establishing the truth of the matter while ensuring justice where need be. To achieve this, this article will quickly try to present and/or seek viewpoints from a wide spectrum of voices: Authoritative human rights watchdogs, the Eddie Okeke family, members of the public with the relevant awareness, and possibly more.

SEE ALSO: In This World, You Need Willpower (about why and how to develop strong willpower for achieving success at any endeavor)

What HRW And CLEEN Has To Say About The Arrest, Torture, And Killing Of Eddie Okeke (a.k.a. Eddie Nawgu)

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) together with West-Africa-focused Center for Law Enforcement Education and Network (CLEEN) published a detailed joint report on the Eddie Nawgu incident in May 2002. You can access the report in question here.
Reading through the HRW/CLEEN report, the impression I get is that Eddie Nawgu was likely a victim of public opinion gone wrong. Very much contrary to what I ever learned about Eddie Nawgu and the stories surrounding his death, the HRW/CLEEN narratives actually mirror those of the persecution and public execution of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament literature: A case of a mainstream religious establishment persecuting an outlier for being different.

We can't be preaching that "Jesus Christ is Lord" today and still be favouring options that Jesus Christ is known to have been up against while he lived on the Planet. It’s a major reason why I want us to revisit this issue: Was Eddie Okeke actually guilty as accused back then? If not, how can justice be served appropriately?

According to the HRW account,

"Eddie Okeke was well-known in the community; he had set up the Anioma Healing Centre in the large compound of his home in Nawgu which attracted hundreds of visitors. Many of the press reports which appeared at the time of his death replicated the Bakassi Boys allegations about him - that he was a criminal who had engaged in assault, extortion, drug dealing, trafficking in children, and ritual killing - fuelling the belief that the Bakassi Boys had caught yet another high-profile criminal.

Human Rights Watch and CLEEN do not know whether there is any substance to the allegations that Eddie Okeke was involved in criminal activities. However, the information we uncovered in Onitsha suggested various possible explanations for his killing, including resentments over his wealth and fame, his outspokenness in expressing critical views and a longstanding dispute that he had with a local traditional ruler and other members of the Catholic Church, who had threatened him and attacked his home on several previous occasions. Information gathered by Human rights Watch and CLEEN from a variety of sources in Nawgu and Onitsha, including relatives and friends of Eddie Okeke indicates that the true explanation for his death may lie in a combination of these factors.

As you can see above, the HRW/CLEEN joint report was probably heavily based on the testimonials of Eddie Okeke’s family and friends. Even the content of the report appears to reflect this too.
Thus, I must acknowledge that such testimonials from the family and friends of the accused shouldn't have been a dominant source for the report - since such family and friends are not likely to be objective in their accounts. So, we need more voices including unrestricted first-hand accounts.

Accordingly, a major feature of the report is a long heart-rending eye-witness account by no less a person than the wife of the late spiritualist, Joyce Okeke. Therefore, in this attempt to revisit the issue with the intention of establishing the truth and ensuring justice, I am presenting the account of Joyce Okeke exactly as shared by Human Rights Watch and CLEEN. This is to represent a reader's first encounter with Eddie Okeke's side of the story.

Members of the family can also use the opportunity of the public forum at the end of this presentation, to give direct accounts to the public without restrictions.

The Story Of Joyce Okeke According To HRW And CLEEN

The first part of the Joyce Okeke story reads as follows:

“It was on 4 November 2000, at about 4.00 a.m. I was asleep. [...] Suddenly I heard a loud bang on the bedroom door. Someone said: "Open this door or I'll break it down!"
I ran to the door. My husband was sleeping. There was a second bang. I opened the door. I saw a lot of men with pump action guns and matchets.
They said: "Where is your husband?" I asked them who they were. They pushed me aside. I called my husband to wake up. They went and pulled him from the bed.
He was asking them: "Who are you?" They said: "We are Bakassi Boys. It's a government order." There were about forty of them and more outside."

She continued:
"My husband asked them what they wanted. They were hitting him. They dragged him outside. One Bakassi was standing at the door with a gun. He told me to go outside and cocked his gun at me. They were still beating my husband.
Another group came in and asked me to show them my husband's room. There was a boy in front of them. I recognized him as a local boy, an armed robber. He had previously assisted people who were after my husband.
They turned the whole room upside down. The boy was doing it; the others were watching. They said: "Where are your husband's guns?" I said: "Which guns?" There was one double-barrel gun there but they were asking for pump-action guns and pistols. I told them we didn't have any.
One of them raised his matchet and said: "I will cut off your head if you don't give us those guns." They found nothing. He said: "Turn your back and I will cut off your head." He charged towards me with his matchet raised, then put it down.
They said: "We'll take you with your husband and if we don't find what we want, he's finished." I went with them and asked a girl to close the door. One of the Bakassi asked me if I wanted to show them anything. I said: "No, there are only children in there."
Among other things, Joyce Okeke also mentioned some of the impact of the event on their children (7 of them, and 1 still in the womb then, according to the HRW/CLEEN report here in question). So, she continued her narratives thus:
"The children were scared so we had locked the door. The Bakassi wanted to shoot. I said: "No, there are children there." He said: "Which children? The ones you sell?" I asked the children to open. The Bakassi just looked in and left them.
Meanwhile I heard the Bakassi outside shooting. I came out with them. Some were behind me, some were in front. I was just wearing my sleeping clothes and wrapper. My husband was just wearing his shorts. They had used his shirt to tie his hands.
Outside, I saw Bakassi everywhere. They were wearing black, with some red material tied on their heads, hands and guns. They had made people in the compound lie face down outside. They were hitting them on their backs with matchets.
They took me out towards the gate. I could see my husband and about fifteen people ahead with one Bakassi group. I was about ten or fifteen steps away. One Bakassi shouted at me: "If you come any further, we'll shoot you down."
But a Bakassi behind me was telling me to move. The one in front said: "Are you deaf? If you move, we'll shoot". I turned again. The one behind me said: "Move". I stood still. I said: "I don't know what to do." The ones behind eventually said: "Go back". I started going back. Some of them ran back in and said I should go along with them. They came into the house.
A car and a jeep were parked outside. They told me to give them the keys and open the gate. I called the boy who locks the gate but there was no answer. One Bakassi moved in a flash and slapped me across the eyes very hard. I fell behind the chair. He pulled me from behind with my wrapper. He was trying to strip me. I pulled the wrapper tightly from the front. He started shaking me and saying: "Who do you think you are?"
The Bakassi outside were calling them to come out again. They ran off, taking my husband and fifteen other people, all young men. They took three vehicles. Little did I know they were going to my father-in-law's compound. After they left I heard gunshots for about an hour. Later, I heard that they had picked up my husband's father, elder brother, and another relative.
At about noon, I was sitting in the armchair when I heard people outside screaming. They ran in, saying: "The Bakassi have come back!" I went out and met them at the gate. One had a belt of cartridges on one shoulder and a gun. He asked for the particulars to our cars and said: "Your husband said to tell you to give us those guns." I said: "Which guns?" He told me not to pretend, but I said it was not possible as he didn't have any guns.
They took the whole file of car particulars and the keys. They took five vehicles. There was no clear command among them, but there was one man they called "Boss."
Before they left, they said they would search the whole compound for the guns and I should go with them. As we went round, they said: "This land is too big. It is bigger than a governor's." They saw a mentally-ill boy in the compound. They said: "Your husband is making people mad." The boy's mother came and explained that it was the boy's condition. They said that was not true, that my husband was turning normal people into mad people. Then they left.
I sent someone to report the matter to the police. The governor was away and the deputy governor, commissioner of police, and deputy commissioner of police were not there either. I asked some friends to call the governor. He promised them he would ask the Bakassi to release my husband.
That was on Saturday. Up until Monday my husband was still there. I didn't know what was going on. I sent people to the Bakassi office in Onitsha. They were refused entry. The Bakassi threatened them with knives and sent them away. They said: "Go away or we'll kill you." They attacked some of them. I saw the marks on their backs. I didn't go there myself as I was too scared”.

Members Of The Public Who Are Familiar With The Eddie Nawgu Story (Or Have Any Meaningful Contribution To Make) Are Invited To Comment On This

By this article, I want to establish an absolutely transparent premise for determining the actual truth of what led to the death of Eddie Okeke (popularly known as Eddie Nawgu) in November 2000. Therefore, based on the above account, and other sources that may be available to the members of the public, I hereby offer this public forum for anyone to give a personal account.

To submit an entry to this public discussion, simply comment on this post by using a Gmail account to sign in to the Google ecosystem. This option is to raise the chances of having only genuine accounts from real people without compromising important privacy concerns. Thank you.

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Reading through the HRW/CLEEN report, the impression I get is that Eddie Nawgu was likely a victim of public opinion gone wrong. Very much contrary to what I ever learned about Eddie Nawgu and the stories surrounding his death, the HRW/CLEEN narratives actually mirror those of the persecution and public execution of Jesus Christ as found in the New Testament literature: A case of a mainstream religious establishment persecuting an outlier for being different.

Very thoughtful. The human society has remained the same for centuries. The same pattern of injustice.

Odumeje is married to Eddie Nawgu daughter ,u can get an account from him

The yeast, especially Anambra is a terrible Hobessian shithole .

I did a thread on this very topic under the title "The Hobbesian state of Alaigbo".

The atrocities committed by Bakassi boys is more than meets the eyes if you examine how they framed many innocent people and executed them in the most gruesome manner in broad daylight in what can only be described as human sacrifice.


That land has an oath to Satan to saceifice human blood to it.

The precolonial history of the land attests to this. Forget Achebe's white washing fairy tale renditions. Sanity only began under European colonization and introduction to Christianity.

As soon as the Europeans left, Satan came upon the land demanded for his arrears of blood with interests which the civil war fulfilled through the senseless deliberate starvation of the people by their so-called leaders. 3 million died.

A brief period of sanity returned to the land for most parts until the return of democracy in 1999 and with ritualists in power. The Bakassi boys were state empowered, funded and backed by legislation. The fact that none of the governors at that time did not see reason to curtail their excesses when we know the Bakassi boys were directly under the control of the governors is testament to this blood oath sacrifice. Kanu introduced his own madness to use as excuse to appease Satan.

The land will continue to demand blood until they all return back to Christ.

You made some points of which you are entitled to your opinion but I want to ask; did you in anyway skip your drugs?

AntiZikist:
The yeast, especially Anambra is a terrible Hobessian shithole .

I did a thread on this very topic under the title "The Hobbesian state of Alaigbo".

The atrocities committed by Bakassi boys is more than meets the eyes if you examine how they framed many innocent people and executed them in the most gruesome manner in broad daylight in what can only be described as human sacrifice.


That land has an oath to Satan to saceifice human blood to it.

The precolonial history of the land attests to this. Forget Achebe's white washing fairy tale renditions. Sanity only began under European colonization and introduction to Christianity.

As soon as the Europeans left, Satan came upon the land demanded for his arrears of blood with interests which the civil war fulfilled through the senseless deliberate starvation of the people by their so-called leaders. 3 million died.

A brief period of sanity returned to the land for most parts until the return of democracy in 1999 and with ritualists in power. The Bakassi boys were state empowered, funded and backed by legislation. The fact that none of the governors at that time did not see reason to curtail their excesses when we know the Bakassi boys were directly under the control of the governors is testament to this blood oath sacrifice. Kanu introduced his own madness to use as excuse to appease Satan.

The land will continue to demand blood until they all return back to Christ.

Walai:
You made some points of which you are entitled to your opinion but I want to ask; did you in anyway skip your drugs?

Wouldn't it be better to show him how wrong he is instead of this gaslighting attempt?

AntiZikist:
The yeast, especially Anambra is a terrible Hobessian shithole .

I did a thread on this very topic under the title "The Hobbesian state of Alaigbo".

The atrocities committed by Bakassi boys is more than meets the eyes if you examine how they framed many innocent people and executed them in the most gruesome manner in broad daylight in what can only be described as human sacrifice.


That land has an oath to Satan to saceifice human blood to it.

The precolonial history of the land attests to this. Forget Achebe's white washing fairy tale renditions. Sanity only began under European colonization and introduction to Christianity.

As soon as the Europeans left, Satan came upon the land demanded for his arrears of blood with interests which the civil war fulfilled through the senseless deliberate starvation of the people by their so-called leaders. 3 million died.

A brief period of sanity returned to the land for most parts until the return of democracy in 1999 and with ritualists in power. The Bakassi boys were state empowered, funded and backed by legislation. The fact that none of the governors at that time did not see reason to curtail their excesses when we know the Bakassi boys were directly under the control of the governors is testament to this blood oath sacrifice. Kanu introduced his own madness to use as excuse to appease Satan.

The land will continue to demand blood until they all return back to Christ.

You were making sense until you proclaimed Christianity as the solution...

Christianity itself is the problem or at least part of the problem.

Islam is the solution.

AntiZikist:
The yeast, especially Anambra is a terrible Hobessian shithole .

I did a thread on this very topic under the title "The Hobbesian state of Alaigbo".

The atrocities committed by Bakassi boys is more than meets the eyes if you examine how they framed many innocent people and executed them in the most gruesome manner in broad daylight in what can only be described as human sacrifice.


That land has an oath to Satan to saceifice human blood to it.

The precolonial history of the land attests to this. Forget Achebe's white washing fairy tale renditions. Sanity only began under European colonization and introduction to Christianity.

As soon as the Europeans left, Satan came upon the land demanded for his arrears of blood with interests which the civil war fulfilled through the senseless deliberate starvation of the people by their so-called leaders. 3 million died.

A brief period of sanity returned to the land for most parts until the return of democracy in 1999 and with ritualists in power. The Bakassi boys were state empowered, funded and backed by legislation. The fact that none of the governors at that time did not see reason to curtail their excesses when we know the Bakassi boys were directly under the control of the governors is testament to this blood oath sacrifice. Kanu introduced his own madness to use as excuse to appease Satan.

The land will continue to demand blood until they all return back to Christ.

Mad man ranting as usual. They always fear what they cannot understand. People in your region are busy minning graves in the name of getting rich.

He probably forgot roman Catholic popes killed more people that terrorists would ever killed...and maybe he should go read about the Inquisition....

danvon:
You were making sense until you proclaimed Christianity as the solution...

Christianity itself is the problem or at least part of the problem.

Islam is the solution.

danvon:
You were making sense until you proclaimed Christianity as the solution...

Christianity itself is the problem or at least part of the problem.

Islam is the solution.

How is Islam the solution? Has Islam stopped the flow of blood in Northern Nigeria after many decades of dominating the region?

Welcum:
How is Islam the solution? Has Islam stopped the flow of blood in Northern Nigeria after many decades of dominating the region?

Danvon!!! Your attention is needed here!!!!!

Bigkoko:
He probably forgot roman Catholic popes killed more people that terrorists would ever killed...and maybe he should go read about the Inquisition....

An apostle of Jesus Christ even betrayed and sold him. Jesus Christ got angry and hit people in the Temple. One of the most respected patriarchs of Judaeo-Christian tradition (King David) even committed adultery. Then, he committed murder to cover the adultery.

There are more ugly stories like these in the Judaeo-Christian history. But you know what? History experts (both Christian and non-Christian) point to this as a PROOF THAT THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY ARE GENUINE. According to these experts, "IF JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN RECORDS DID NOT TRY TO HIDE SUCH UNSAVOURY DETAILS ABOUT THEIR OWN HEROES, THEN, WHAT GROUND DO WE HAVE TO DOUBT THE REST OF THE ACCOUNTS?"

I hope you understood that. That is a different approach to another 'holy book' that recorded only beautiful things about their so-called prophet. It shows that we can't trust them - especially as they call themselves the religion of peace but fight wars every time. Top hypocrisy.

kurupt1:
Odumeje is married to Eddie Nawgu daughter ,u can get an account from him

Really? I can see a pattern here.

Caseless:
Really? I can see a pattern here.

Can you share more about this pattern please.

Chai

But frankly speaking and from the look of things, the said man was not giving fair hearing .
That again brings to the glare the ills that have bedeviled the country where the people have zero confidence in governance and their institutions.
The incident of Mr. Eddie Nwagu indicated clearly that jungle justice has been part and parcel of the Nigerian society. It beats my imagination that up till this day we still have lots and lots of jungle justice cases in the country.
In the end, I prayed justice should not only be done but be seen by all as been done. Commenters and those who have first hand information on the Eddie Nwagu incident should avail us information of why and what really motivated his killing

danvon:
You were making sense until you proclaimed Christianity as the solution...

Christianity itself is the problem or at least part of the problem.

Islam is the solution.

Islam in the SE?

Then get ready for the most intolerant and violent form of Islamic radicals.

Bigkoko:
He probably forgot roman Catholic popes killed more people that terrorists would ever killed...and maybe he should go read about the Inquisition....

The inquisition was suggested and headed by a Jewish convert and it is now known that it was meant specifically to do the opposite of what it was intended and that is to root out genuine converts of Jews to Christianity and have them killed.

Apostacy in Judaism is only defined by converting to Christianity and the punishment is death.

A Jew can convert to Islam and he will still be accepted by other Jews as still being a Jew.

The Talmud is the originator of Jewish Secularism and dictates that it is ok for Jews to be atheists rather than convert to Christianity.

Atheism in itself is a Jewish concept invented solely to undermine the Christian faith and it's spread. All prominent early advocates for atheism were Jews. Karl Marx and his most staunch adherents to Marxism and communism were all Jews who promoted materialism and atheism (aka communism) to destroy Christianity.

The Spanish Inquisition was first proposed to root out fake Christian converts from among Jews who claimed to have converted to Christianity in Spain to avoid being expelled.

The head of the inquisition was himself a Jew who converted to Christianity but was later found out to be secretly practicing his Jewish religion and his sole reason for proposing the inquisition was to actually root out and kill Jews who had truly converted to Christianity.


If in doubt go and read about the Qahal and how they kept Jews from converting to Christianity in their Jewish Shetls aka Ghettos.

The Jewish Qahal was an autonomous self governing zone within Christian kingdoms in medieval Europe. The Qahal had its own courts seperate from that of the Christian society. In the Qahal, Jewish rabbi had supreme powers over each and every Jew in the Shetls. The Qahal were more interested in keeping the Jews in the midst of European Christianson from converting to Christianity. Any Jew who converted to Christianity had to flee the Jewish Shetl (ghetto) or risk inevitable death. Since more and more Jews saw reason to embrace Christianity for her liberal and tolerant ideology and that Christian conversion will see them accepted in Christian society instead of being confined to the ghettos of medieval Europe, the Qahal system was demanded by Jewish leaders so as to keep the Jews as a monolithic entity and from dying out .

The head of the Spanish Inquisition was a crypto Jew or marrano (fake convert) who infiltrated the church and was able to sell the inquisition to the church for his own ambition to root out real converts to Christianity amongst the Jews and have them killed.

danvon:
You were making sense until you proclaimed Christianity as the solution...

Christianity itself is the problem or at least part of the problem.

Islam is the solution.

From frying pan to volcano.

This man's death and those of thousands were murdered in the most barbaric manner in full public glare without any conclusive investigation and trial in court.

The Bakassi boys took orders directly from the respective state governors' offices.

We also know that anyone who had the right amount of money could approach the same Bakassi boys to eliminate a rival. Rivalry over land, chieftaincy titles, business adversaries, political opponents and long standing enemies used the Bakassi boys to settle scores. This is how UGM aka IPOB criminals are being used to settle scores under the cover of UGM.

This man had many enemies including the Catholic church in the yeast and it's mafia priests who went about grabbing community land with impunity. One of the major enablers of James Nwafor was a Catholic Priest in Awkuzu who in his land grabbing , falsely accused many of the community youth of planning to kidnap him. This was of course over land dispute between the Catholic priest and the community youth over the Priest's attempt to carve large swath of their land as church land to be used in the Priest's future personal business project.

The problem in the SE is a very wicked and heartless elite class that keep oppressing their poor populace while jostling amongst themselves.

From all indications, this man stepped on too much toes and attracted envy and jealousy.

He was at loggerheads with the Catholic church over both land dispute and the mass conversion of parishioners to his church. Community leaders were jealous of his influence over the populace and even the governor was said to be at odds with him over his open critisicm to it.

His plight is truly like that of Christ among the vipers of the synagogue.

Welcum:
How is Islam the solution? Has Islam stopped the flow of blood in Northern Nigeria after many decades of dominating the region?

I was replying the guy in question

He claimed Igbo land issues were stopped by Christianity and i was trying to point out that the hero worship fanatical insanity he condemns actually started with the introduction of Christianity, the early Christians of Igboland were not the noble class, they were the Osus, the slaves and the physically and mentally unstable - the outcasts of Igboland. These outcasts ganged up together in envy and revenge and overthrew the more noble stable savage class with the help of Christianity. Overthrowing this ruling class caused serious political, economic and cultural instability and that is what started the problems of Alaigbo.

The very tenets of Christianity itself can cause insanity...

Love your enemies.
Turn the other cheek.
Do not judge.
Blessed are the meek.
Blessed are the poor.
Guage your eye out if it causes you to sin.
The wisdom of heaven is better than the wisdom of earth.

Your either a sane Christian in that case a 'hypocrite' or you are a 'true Christian' in that case a madman or a fool, there is no 'true sane Christian' (except in Norway).

Islam by contrast is much more practical much more straightforward, it doesn't promote hatred for the masters 'unless those masters are not muslims' neither does it promote hatred for the weak 'zakat'.

Islam would have struck a better harmony between Igbo traditional religion and kindness for the weak. Christianity was the worst religion for Igbos.

Say what you will about the North, the truth is the North is more powerful politically and economically than the South East and that is due to the reduction of Christianity.

danvon:
I was replying the guy in question

He claimed Igbo land issues were stopped by Christianity and i was trying to point out that the hero worship fanatical insanity he condemns actually started with the introduction of Christianity, the early Christians of Igboland were not the noble class, they were the Osus, the slaves and the physically and mentally unstable - the outcasts of Igboland. These outcasts ganged up together in envy and revenge and overthrew the more noble stable savage class with the help of Christianity. Overthrowing this ruling class caused serious political, economic and cultural instability and that is what started the problems of Alaigbo.

The very tenets of Christianity itself can cause insanity...

Love your enemies.
Turn the other cheek.
Do not judge.
Blessed are the meek.
Blessed are the poor.
Guage your eye out if it causes you to sin.
The wisdom of heaven is better than the wisdom of earth.

Your either a sane Christian in that case a 'hypocrite' or you are a 'true Christian' in that case a madman or a fool, there is no 'true sane Christian' (except in Norway).

Islam by contrast is much more practical much more straightforward, it doesn't promote hatred for the masters 'unless those masters are not muslims' neither does it promote hatred for the weak 'zakat'.

Islam would have struck a better harmony between Igbo traditional religion and kindness for the weak. Christianity was the worst religion for Igbos.

You are right about the early converts to Christianity in Ibo land being those from the dredges of society .

But what you failed to understand is that their mass conversion as you rightly pointed out wasn't out of conviction towards the new religion of Christianity but instead it was to free them from the chains and bonds that the slave society had imposed on them by the ruling class.

And you erred in claiming that the converts turned on their former masters. This is false. Rather their former slave masters in the Freeborn class doubled down on the class system to ensure the now emancipated slaves never amounted to anything in Ibo society.

The British colonialists believed in the Roman way of doing things when they conquered an area by always reverting to the ruling class as their proxy authority. In Ibo land, the British elevated the freeborns to Warrant Chiefs. These warrant chiefs will later lead to Ibo kings and royalty after the civil war.

The British also tried as much as possible not to interfere in the internal cultural norms of Ibo land and so they turned a blind eye to many excesses of the Warrant Chiefs.

Do you know that up to the early 20th century , Ibos were still being sold and exported as slaves to South America and the ones doing this were the same warrant chiefs under licence from the Royal Niger Company to supply slaves to Brazil?

Slavery was only finally legally abolished in Ibo land as late as 1951!

The situation in iboland was so bad that an 0su would be rejected as a parish priest in some areas.

The early Christian converts have since been edged out of church affairs in the SE especially in the predominantly Catholic church. If you doubt this, it's only in the SE that a community parish or entire diocese will reject the appointment of a reverend or a bishop because he does not hail from their community or state. If they can discriminate over who will lead their churches based on state of origin or clan is it an 0su descendant they will accept ?

Most of the 0su descendants have since converted to protestant or Envangelical Christianity and that's why there is a war beneath the surface against non Catholic Christians in Ibo land.

Bakassi boys was just a hit squad to the highest bidder

tutudesz:
Bakassi boys was just a hit squad to the highest bidder

Their politicians used them to get rid of their opponents.

Business rivals used them to settle scores

Governors used them to silent dissent

Even the Catholic church used them in this man's case to halt the mass defection and conversion from catholism.

The yeast is one very terrible place.

Not my business, because I was not there when it happens

Godjone:
Chai

But frankly speaking and from the look of things, the said man was not giving fair hearing .
That again brings to the glare the ills that have bedeviled the country where the people have zero confidence in governance and their institutions.
The incident of Mr. Eddie Nwagu indicated clearly that jungle justice has been part and parcel of the Nigerian society. It beats my imagination that up till this day we still have lots and lots of jungle justice cases in the country.
In the end, I prayed justice should not only be done but be seen by all as been done. Commenters and those who have first hand information on the Eddie Nwagu incident should avail us information of why and what really motivated his killing

Thanks for this. That's why I will keep sharing this article. I hope you are doing the same. Our people need to change. Too prone to junglej and other stupidities like this.

AntiZikist:
Their politicians used them to get rid of their opponents.

Business rivals used them to settle scores

Governors used them to silent dissent

Even the Catholic church used them in this man's case to halt the mass defection and conversion from catholism.

The yeast is one very terrible place.

I posted this and you have been masturbating on it. I want the man to get justice IF he wasn't guilty. But, it's not enough reason to be here talking all your trash about "yeast". I'm from the East, and if e sure for you, condemn and post any evil in your region as I'm doing. Oh sorry, I remember that your region is Heaven where nothing bad happens. Cheap hypocrite.