STILL ON THE #APO6 AND THE TRAGEDY THAT IS NIGERIA
We would recall that after outrage from Nigerians and series of demonstration by APO traders as well as several petition by many right groups, the then President Olusegun Matthew Aremu Obasanjo constituted a Commission of Enquiry which sat at the court of appeal building, Utako, Abuja.
This judicial commission of inquiry was sworn in on the 27th day of June 2005. It commenced sitting on 29/06/05 and concluded its sitting on 05/08/05.
It admitted the evidence of the autopsy reports on the six deceased persons carried out by two renowned anatomic pathologists, Prof Olusegun Ojo and prof E.J.C Nwana with the Nigerian Police Force pathologist in attendance. The cause(s) of death of two of the corpses could not be ascertained due to their bad state of decomposition but that of the other four corpses were ascertained to be due to high velocity missiles which the pathologist (prof Olusegun Ojo admitted under cross examination to be consistent with bullet shots).
The findings and recommendations
The judicial commission of inquiry established the following facts:
1. The Peugeot 406 being driven by one of the deceased persons had six occupants including the driver; five males and one female.
2. The police buried the corpses of the six deceased persons in two shallow graves at Utako District of Abuja Fct under the supervision of DPO of Garki police, CSP Othman Abdusalam (still missing) at the ratio of 4:2
3. At the first point of contact between the police and the deceased persons at Gimbiya Street, Abuja, Area 11 Garki Abuja, not all the deceased persons were killed there.
4. No shooting came from the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the deceased.
5. The only female occupant of the 406 car was strangled to death by DCP Danjuma Ibrahim and PC Dennis Asawa.
6. The two locally made pistols, two live cartridges, two expended cartridges, cutlass and daggers allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car were planted by the runaway DPO Garki police station, CSP Othman Abdusalam in order to brand the deceased persons as armed robbers.
7. From the ballistician's report, the two expended cartridges were never shot from any locally made pistols allegedly planted by the DPO Garki police station CSP Othman Abdusalam in the Peugeot 406 car.
8. The two locally made pistols allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the deceased persons had not been shot/fired in six months prior to the ballistician examination.
9. That the two locally made pistols allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car were in fact recovered from a hotel in Abuja called Rita Lori hotel, more than two weeks before the incident of the Apo six killing of June 8,2005.
10. That the two locally made pistols on request by DPO Garki police station CSP Othman Abdusalam were brought from the armoury of the Garki police station by the armourer by name inspector Ishaya Nyaiwak and given to him who in turn planted them inside the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the six deceased persons.
11. That the deceased persons were not armed robbers since no gun(s) were found on them nor did they shoot at the police at the check point in Gimbiya street Area 11 Garki Abuja.
2. The police buried the corpses of the six deceased persons in two shallow graves at Utako District of Abuja Fct under the supervision of DPO of Garki police, CSP Othman Abdusalam (still missing) at the ratio of 4:2
3. At the first point of contact between the police and the deceased persons at Gimbiya Street, Abuja, Area 11 Garki Abuja, not all the deceased persons were killed there.
4. No shooting came from the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the deceased.
5. The only female occupant of the 406 car was strangled to death by DCP Danjuma Ibrahim and PC Dennis Asawa.
6. The two locally made pistols, two live cartridges, two expended cartridges, cutlass and daggers allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car were planted by the runaway DPO Garki police station, CSP Othman Abdusalam in order to brand the deceased persons as armed robbers.
7. From the ballistician's report, the two expended cartridges were never shot from any locally made pistols allegedly planted by the DPO Garki police station CSP Othman Abdusalam in the Peugeot 406 car.
8. The two locally made pistols allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the deceased persons had not been shot/fired in six months prior to the ballistician examination.
9. That the two locally made pistols allegedly found in the Peugeot 406 car were in fact recovered from a hotel in Abuja called Rita Lori hotel, more than two weeks before the incident of the Apo six killing of June 8,2005.
10. That the two locally made pistols on request by DPO Garki police station CSP Othman Abdusalam were brought from the armoury of the Garki police station by the armourer by name inspector Ishaya Nyaiwak and given to him who in turn planted them inside the Peugeot 406 car being driven by one of the six deceased persons.
11. That the deceased persons were not armed robbers since no gun(s) were found on them nor did they shoot at the police at the check point in Gimbiya street Area 11 Garki Abuja.
12. The only escapee from the gruesome killings by the police both at the Gimbiya street Area 11 Garki and beside Prince and Princess Estate Gaduwa Abuja was arrested and killed by 7:30am on the 8th of June, 2005 by the Nigeria Police Force.
13. That the autopsy report showed conclusively that the deceased were killed by high velocity missiles consistent with bullet shots.
14. That inspector Suleiman Audu, the head of the police patrol team at Gimbiya street Area 11 Garki refused to shoot at the Peugeot 406 car.
15. That the policeman (late PC Anthony Idam) who mysteriously died a day before he was to testify before the police Administrative Board of inquiry was poisoned according to the autopsy report.
On the basis of these preponderance of incontrovertibl
1. DCP Danjuma Ibrahim;
2. DPO Othman Abdusalam
3. Inspector Suleiman Audu
4. Ezekiel Acheneje
5. PC Sadiq Salami
6. PC Dennis Asawa
7. Emmanuel Baba and;
8. ASP Nicholas Zachariah.
The commission went on to recommend that they should all be tried in accordance with the appropriate law. The federal government accepted this recommendations
13. That the autopsy report showed conclusively that the deceased were killed by high velocity missiles consistent with bullet shots.
14. That inspector Suleiman Audu, the head of the police patrol team at Gimbiya street Area 11 Garki refused to shoot at the Peugeot 406 car.
15. That the policeman (late PC Anthony Idam) who mysteriously died a day before he was to testify before the police Administrative Board of inquiry was poisoned according to the autopsy report.
On the basis of these preponderance of incontrovertibl
1. DCP Danjuma Ibrahim;
2. DPO Othman Abdusalam
3. Inspector Suleiman Audu
4. Ezekiel Acheneje
5. PC Sadiq Salami
6. PC Dennis Asawa
7. Emmanuel Baba and;
8. ASP Nicholas Zachariah.
The commission went on to recommend that they should all be tried in accordance with the appropriate law. The federal government accepted this recommendations
After these findings were submitted to the federal govt, the then Police affairs minister, Broderick Bozimo publicly admitted that the APO6 were killed by the police for no just cause, apologised to Nigerians as well as the families of the victims and even paid compensation with a promise to ensure that the killer police officers were punished to the fullest extend. The acting police I.G then was Sunday Ehindero.
Please, let us take a 2nd look at the no5 of the recommendation which clearly established that the only female occupant of the Peugeot 406, lady Augustina, was strangled by deputy police commissioner, Danjuma Ibrahim, the same man who instigated all these because his sexual overture was rejected by the lady.
Now, let's go back to No15 of the findings which talks about a police man, the late PC Anthony Idam who mysteriously died a day before he was to testify before the panel.
The late Anthony Idam was the policeman who was to testify against his killer colleagues. But on a Saturday afternoon, two days before his planned appearance before the panel, this police man was lured from his home and poisoned by uniformed beasts masquerading as his colleagues. He died the next day, being Sunday before Monday that he was to testify before the Panel.
In a nutshell, the Nigerian Police force killed one of its own in a desperate bid to conceal evidence in one of the worst cases of organized crime involving the police.
Now, why don't we just pause and ask ourselves some questions? Questions like:
Who are the personalities involved in this despicable act that the police even had to sacrifice one of its own and helped one of the accused to escape from no other place than the Force Headquarters where they were detained, just to shield them from justice?
Here, let me:
DCP Danjuma Ibrahim who instigated this heinous crime and personally strangled the only female victim, according to the finding of the Judicial Commission of Enqury, the same DCP Danjuma who was granted special bail by a court since 2006 despite facing multiple murder charges, the same Danjuma who has just been declared innocent while the junior policemen who carried out his order to shoot were sentenced to death, yes, that Danjuma Ibrahim is a direct cousin to former vice president, Atiku Abubakar.
Now, let's get one thing clear here, Charles Ogbu is not saying that the Atiku connection played any role here. Not at all. Charles is simply asking how Justice Ishaq Bello could look at this volume of evidence linking DCP Danjuma to this savagery and still go to sleep at night knowing that he just convicted two junior police men for killing innocent citizens but exonerated the senior police officer who ordered the killing and masterminded the devilish cover-ups.
Charles is simply wondering how the Police headquarters intend to convince reasonable folks that the Garriki police station DPO, Othman Abdulsalam could simply develop wings and flew away from the 5th floor of Louis Edet House without inside help. I would also want to know if its police tradition to allow murder suspects go to the church or mosque for prayers from their detention centre all by themselves.
Lastly, I want to ask; what kind of citizenry tolerate this kind of savagery from a police force trained and equipped with the tax payers money??
After waiting for 12 solid years, the long wait for justice for the APO6 seems to have been in vain.
#Shame!!
How do people feel proud to identify with a country where the same people charged with the constitutional duty of protecting lives are the ones wasting these lives with impunity??????"
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