Anambra Community declares 4 Chiefs missing

 


The Abagana Welfare Association, AWA, in Anambra State has declared four prominent traditional leaders of the community missing.
According to them, the Ukpo Community had since built a police post on the disputed land, “with illegal police protection…, apparently to frustrate the upcoming appeal court case.” According to them, “Since August 20, 2016 when the youth of both communities engaged in renewed confrontation, scores of leaders of Abagana community have been arrested in midnight swoops by policemen, with most of them still languishing in detention.

 “The mass arrest is believed to be targeted at people close to Chief Emmanuel Nwude, (Owelle Abagana) who is suspected to be financing the court case against Ukpo.

 “Curiously, barely 24hr after the arrest, Commissioner of Police, COMPOL Samuel Okaula addressed a world press conference where he paraded 10 workers of EM Guest Inn, Abagana, owned by High Chief Emma Nwude, and branded them as terrorists.” Ifeadike then urged the IGP to take-over investigations into the most recent bout of violence on the Abagana-Ukpo border as his subordinates in Anambra had largely been compromised and can no longer be trusted to conduct an impartial investigation.