Ezu River dead bodies: Report indicts police four years after

Tony Okafor, Awka

A report released by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law on Friday in Awka, Anambra State has indicted the police for the killing and dumping of about 35 corpses inside the Ezu River, Amansea in the state in 2013.

The rights group alleged that the Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Anambra State Police command was responsible for the homicide.

In the report entitled “The Untold Story Of Ezu River Police SARS Killings, the group said there was the need to highlight the activities of the outfit (SARS), following their continued killing of Nigerian youths in the name of fighting crime.

The report signed by the Chairman Board of Trustees of INTERSOCIETY, Emeka Umeagbalasi, condemned the use of force, torture and other unapproved ways to extract information from suspects.

The report was addressed to several authorities including the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, the Amnesty International among others.

Dead bodies numbering about 35 had on 19th January 2013 been discovered floating on Ezu river, on the boundary between Anambra and Enugu States.

INTERSOCIETY said it decided to revisit the matter because of “increasing, shocking, saddening and alarming rate of torture and killing being perpetrated by the police.

It said, “Many of the arrested and detained citizens by the Anambra Police SARS operatives in the course of their so-called combating of violent crimes of armed robbery and kidnapping in the State were butchered like animals.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/ezu-river-dead-bodies-report-indicts-police-four-years-after/%3famp=1

See how SARS wasted humanity created in God's image. Every atrocities of SARS must be brought to book. Abeg #EndSARS, #EndSWAT.

Peter Obi was a coward.

He refused to act on the report then

nzeobi:

Is Peter Obi in charge of the police, you should rather blame the current governor who appointed a killer and a human parts dealer as his aid despite the public outcry.

Ogbuu101:

Peter Obi didn't have control over the police.

He was the governor

He alone had the power to make sure those guys got justice.

Common.. More than 40 corpse and all Peter could do was promising N2 million to anyone who can bring proof that it was SARS that killed them.

Some of us still remember

chuka5000:

he can't control sars

that's why the name is fsars
they're under the federal government


hope u understand now

It was not Fsars then.

#ENDSARS #ENDCORRUPTION

A

sapientia:
Peter Obi was a coward.

He refused to act on the report then

Peter Obi didn't have control over the police.

sapientia:
Peter Obi was a coward.

He refused to act on the report then

Is Peter Obi in charge of the police, you should rather blame the current governor who appointed a killer and a human parts dealer as his aid despite the public outcry.

dats wat I have been expecting d government to do since d report came out
shame to d government, they wont say they never heard of these atrocities previously

shame on d residents of this neighbourhood where these bodies are dumped, even if the government wont hear their complaints, why not take pictures and show d world. why not desert d neighbourhood in protest of these atrocities


shame on all anambarians, u guys knew of these deadly crimes and kept quiet. I guess ipob protest were more important dan protesting these gross injustice


shame on we Igbos. this is how heartless we have become, killing our brothers like dis. it's not even as if d SARS personnel are from other tribes, they are igbos. We are quick to blame our woes on one Nigeria, but this is wat we can do to ourselves


shame on buhari
shame on d past and present governors
shame on this country
shame on me
shame on us all

if those that we to protest to the governor used this picture e for make sense well

zionmde:
dats wat I have been expecting d government to do since d report came out

The state governor is wicked, he even employ the guy.

.

Biodun556:


The state governor is wicked, he even employ the guy.

people weren't bold enough to raise their voice and point their fingers on d guy. they were all afraid of wat would befall dem if they did

Racoon:
See how SARS wasted humanity created in God's image.
Every atrocities of SARS must be brought to book.

It happened in the "glorious" days of you people's HERO OF DEMOCRACY!

Not a single protest from anyone, not even Kanu!! You see why it is a crime against humanity taking sides with you people? You have extremely terrible minds and indescribably bigoted!

Spits.

sapientia:
Peter Obi was a coward.
He refused to act on the report then

he can't control sars
that's why the name is fsars they're under the federal government

hope u understand now

And you dont want us to end this thing once and for all . @tosgramm

And you dont want us to end this thing once and for all . @tosgramm

That SARS officer must go down

protests:
This was in 2017
Yet we all sort of missed it
And we all sort of went on with our lives
Those spirits have come to haunt the govt of Pa Buhari now.

You guys are horrible humans. This happened under Jonathan, and they were alleged to be Biafra separatists. Guess what, you people looked the other way!!

Now, you want to kill yourselves because a Northerner occupies Aso Rock.

Disgusting hypocrites. It's almost impossible reasoning with you people.

I have said it and will continue to say it. The only reason some on you keep mentioning Sars this and that is simply because APC is at the center. Were it to be pdp, you would see absolutely nothing wrong with their conduct, the same way you people supported Jonathan deploying the Army to Ojota in 2012 to shoot at protesters.

Shameless beings.

omenka:
It happened in the "glorious" days of you people's HERO OF DEMOCRACY!

Not a single protest from anyone, not even Kanu!! You see why it is a crime against humanity taking sides with you people? You have extremely terrible minds and indescribably bigoted!

Spits.

Oro gidi.

TossTos:
And you dont want us to end this thing once and for all .
@tosgramm

That is not the point. The question is, why didn't ANY ONE, especially, SOUTH EASTERNERS, say anything back then? Because jonathan and not Buhari, was the president?

Those SARS Men needs to be CASTRATED!!

They sometimes forget they, themselves are HUMANS...

omenka:
That is not the point. The question is, why didn't ANY ONE, especially, SOUTH EASTERNERS, say anything back then? Because jonathan and not Buhari, was the president?

So those MASSOB members that spoke out are from the north?

You see why this one wouldn't gain traction, because they realise it exposes their hypocrisy! Why didn't they protest then? What happened? Or didn't their lives matter when Jonathan and PDP were at the helm of affairs??

This whole thing smacks of politics and it is becoming clearer by the day, what the real intentions are.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44, Obinoscopy, this is also a SARS related thread that needs exposure like the tens of others on the fp.

Thank you.

zionmde:
dats wat I have been expecting d government to do since d report came out
shame to d government, they wont say they never heard of these atrocities previously

shame on d residents of this neighbourhood where these bodies are dumped, even if the government wont hear their complaints, why not take pictures and show d world. why not desert d neighbourhood in protest of these atrocities


shame on all anambarians, u guys knew of these deadly crimes and kept quiet. I guess ipob protest were more important dan protesting these gross injustice


shame on we Igbos. this is how heartless we have become, killing our brothers like dis. it's not even as if d SARS personnel are from other tribes, they are igbos. We are quick to blame our woes on one Nigeria, but this is wat we can do to ourselves


shame on buhari
shame on d past and present governors
shame on this country
shame on me
shame on us all

It is unfortunate. The victim families have been crying years none of them could help.

omenka:
It happened in the "glorious" days of you people's HERO OF DEMOCRACY!

Not a single protest from anyone, not even Kanu!! You see why it is a crime against humanity taking sides with you people? You have extremely terrible minds and indescribably bigoted!

Spits.

This happened in 2013 when IPOB wasnt on the ground yet.

I remember that Peter Obi was asked about this incident on Al Jazeera and he said he was out of the country when it happened and he rushed back home to try and find out what happened but all his attempts to unravel the incident was was stopped by the Police and since he does not control the Police, there was not much he could do

GallantDuke:

So those MASSOB members that spoke out are from the north?

Shut that trap up. You aren't even ashamed of yourself.

Where was your voice then? Where was the voice of the entire Ndigbo?

Where was Phyno, Psquare and the others?

Where was Ezekwesili's voice?

Where was Kanus voice?

Where was the voice of ALL THE ANGRY Nairalanders from the East?

I suppose the people that died desired the voices of just a handful of MASSOB members. Imagine the stupid justification!

You have serious problems upstairs honestly.

Police go dey fear youth from now

Height of wickedness

omenka:
It happened in the "glorious" days of you people's HERO OF DEMOCRACY!

Not a single protest from anyone, not even Kanu!! You see why it is a crime against humanity taking sides with you people? You have extremely terrible minds and indescribably bigoted!

Spits.

Everything about them is Buhari. Imagine the state governor employed the man, IPOB played politics with the massacre.