PRESS STATEMENT BY JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE OF NORTHERN YOUTH ASSOCIATIONS ON EL-RUFAI’S INFLAMATORY STATEMENT
The recent outburst and threat to the international community, especially election observers by Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad el-rufai is not surprising. What is surprising is extending it outside the shore of Kaduna and Nigeria, targeting the international community who are interested in fair, transparent, credible and peaceful elections in Nigeria.
This is not new. But as northern youths, we have resolved not to be drawn into any act that will lead to lost of lives and property in Kaduna State, the region or the nation as a whole.
For the record, Governor el-rufai is no stranger to such inflamatary statement meant to stock ember of discord and results in violence. But we have seen through his veiled calls to violence.
El-rufai is known to have called the opposition in Kaduna termites and ants and should be crushed. He has asked those who asked questions on his style of scothearth leadership to climb Kufena Hill and jump to their death.
The most recent and bizzare was his allusion to a religious icon; the celebrated and revered Catholic leader, The Pope. That statement was meant to infuriate the Catholics and Christians to cause religious conflict. But we thank the Christian community for their restrain and the show of maturity by not playing into the hands of the governor.
Just this week, three young boys were mowed down in cold blood at Unguwan Muazu within Kaduna metropolis right under the watch of Governor el-rufai in his campaign train. Despite the security agents in the Governor’s motorcade, no one has been arrested nor did he visit to condole with the families of the murdered boys. It took serious intervention of peace loving people to ensure the killings of the young boys did not lead to another circle of bloodletting in Kaduna.
Nigeria like the governor said in this last infamous interview on a national television has been involved in other countries to ensure they have a peaceful and credible elections. What is wrong to ensure Nigeria does same with other countries as observers.
El-rufai’s statement that “those that are calling for anyone to intervene in Nigeria, we are waiting for the person to come and intervene. They would go back in body bags because nobody would come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country” is unfortunate, condemnable, a call to violence and veiled threat to all peace loving people.
We use this opportunity to call on the security agencies to ensure the protection of lives and property before, during and after the forthcoming elections. We also urge the international and the election observers not to bow to threats such as the one coming from Governor Nasir Ahmad El-rufai.
In the face of this, we call on all to remain steadfast, not to bow to intimidation, not to play into the hands of people like el-rufai whose plan is to throw the state and the nation into another round of bloodletting. We shall triumph over those who don’t want to see us in peace.
Bukola Saraki, Senate President, withdrew the Senate’s suit at the Supreme Court challenging the suspension of Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) because it was clear he was going nowhere with the move, SaharaReporters understands.
On January 28, three days after President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Onnoghen as CJN, the Senate cancelled its sitting for the day and instead filed a suit through Saraki before the Supreme Court praying for, among others, an order reinstating Onnoghen as CJN.
In the suit, marked SC.76/2019, the Senate asked the apex court to declare the suspension of Onnoghen without support of two-thirds majority of the Senate as a violation of section 292(1)(a)(i) of the Constitution.
It also asked the apex court to issue an order restraining the two defendants in the suit – the President and the Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami – from continuing or repeating the violation of the Constitution and disregarding the power of the Senate in respect to the suspension of the CJN.
The Senate made an about-face on Tuesday February 5, citing trust “in the ability of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to resolve the issues”. However, SaharaReporters understands that this position was mere public posturing.
The NJC formally took up the Onnoghen case on January 29 at a meeting from which both the suspended CJN and his successor Tanko Muhammad recused themselves. At the end of the meeting, the NJC gave both Muhammad and Onnoghen seven days to respond to the various allegations against them — meaning that if the Senate truly trusted the NJC in full, that was the day to withdraw the suit instead of Tuesday.
But Saraki did not have the backing of the National Assembly to go to court. To file the suit, he would have needed a resolution of the Senate, which he didn’t get. And it became clear this loophole would be exploited when the Senate caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), comprising 56 senators, applied to the Supreme Court to join in the Senate’s suit.
“As you can see, we already protested and we were asked to be joined in the suit,” an APC senator who didn’t want to be named told SaharaReporters. “The Senate never made a resolution to file that suit; and even if there was an attempt at such resolution, it would have died a natural death as we, who have the majority, are firmly with the president on this.”
Also, public sentiment was beginning to count against Saraki after members of the public were reminded of how he sacked the Chief Judge of Kwara State, Justice Raliat Elelu-Habeeb, in 2009 during his tenure as Governor of the state.
However, the Supreme Court eventually reinstated Elelu-Habeeb, with Justice Mahmud Mohammed, who delivered the judgement of a seven-member panel of justices, holding that when all the relevant provisions of the constitution were read together, it would become obvious that a state Governor could not remove a Chief Judge from office without having recourse to the NJC.
“It is not difficult to see that for the effective exercise of the powers of removal of a chief judge of a state by the Governor and House of Assembly, the first port of call by the governor shall be the NJC,” Mahmud had stated back then.
“From these very clear provisions of the constitution which are very far from being ambiguous, the governors of the states and the houses of assembly of the states cannot exercise disciplinary control touching the removal of chief judges of states or other judicial officers in the states.”
Incidentally, Onnoghen was one of the six other justices, the rest being Christopher Chukwumah-Eneh, Muhammad Muntaka-Coomassie, Olufunmilola Adekeye, Mary Peter-Odili and Olukayode Ariwoola.
Interestingly, Saraki lost the case against Elelu-Habeeb at all levels. When he sacked her, she instituted a case against him at the Federal High Court, where she won. But Saraki appealed to the Court of Appeal in Ilorin. In July 2010, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Elelu-Habeeb, and Saraki again appealed at the Supreme Court. On February 2012, the Supreme Court, as expected, reinstated Elelu-Habeed.
Finally, Paul Erokoro (SAN), counsel to the Senate, has been one of the numerous SANs leading the lawyers’ revolt against Onnoghen’s trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). On the opening day of the matter at the CCT — way before the Senate dreamed of filing a suit against the Nigerian Government at the Supreme Court — Erokoro was one of at least 47 SANs who trooped to the tribunal in defence of Onnoghen.
Meanwhile, the decision of the NJC on Onnoghen and Muhammad is being expected soon, as the seven-working-day deadline for their responses to the allegations against them will elapse on Thursday.
An Abuja High Court sitting in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has denied disbarred Lagos Lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye bail in the case of alleged involvement in the murder of late Abuja business woman, Charity Aiyedogbon.
The presiding judge, Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi refused to grant Ugwuonye’s application for bail filed, ordering that he should remain in custody under the completion of his trial.
With the court order, Ugwuonye is to remain in Kuje prisons till the charges against him are determined by the court.
Idachaba tendered certified true copies of Facebook posts made by Ugwuonye, describing them as prejudicial, arguing that “If he could do this while in custody, he will do more if released on bail.”
Opposing his bail application earlier, the Head of Legal Department at the FCT Police Command, James Idachaba described Ugwuonye as “an unrepentant offender and a contemnor, capable of jumping bail and interfering with the trial”, if granted bail.
Idachaba tendered certified true copies of Facebook posts made by Ugwuonye, describing them as prejudicial, arguing that “If he could do this while in custody, he will do more if released on bail.”
Ugwuonye was charged before a High Court in Abuja, alongside four others over their alleged involvement in Aiyedogbon’s dastard killing.
The charge, with number CR/20/2018, between the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command (complainant) and Ephraim Chukwemeka Ugwuonye and four others (defendant) centers on Criminal Conspiracy to commit murder, armed robbery and culpable homicide.
Other accused persons charged along side Ugwuonye are: Ezeugwu Paul Chukwujekwu, Adogah Emmanuel and Ikechukwu James Ezeugwu.
The Charge Sheet reads in part: “That you Ezeugwu Paul Chukwujekwu, Adogah Emmanuel and Ephraim Chukwuemeka Ugwuonye all ‘M’, on or about 9/05/2016 in Kagini, Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit illegal act to wit: Criminal Conspiracy when you agreed with amongst yourself and robbed one Mrs. Charity Chidiebere Aiyedogbon (now late) of her property and killed her. You therefore committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 6 (b) of Robbery and Fire Arms (special provisions) Act Cap. RII LFN 2004.”
“That you Ezeugwu Paul Chukwujekwu, Adogah Emmanuel and Ephraim Emeka Ugwuonye all ‘M’ on or about 9/05/2016 in Kagini, Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit illegal act to wit: Armed Robbery when you armed yourselves with cutlasses and other offensive weapons, attacked and robbed Mrs. Charity Chidiebere Aiyedogbon ‘F’ (now late) of her Accura ZDX Jeep with registration number RSH 225 AH Abuja gray colour, one Samsung Galaxy phone, one Itel 1408 phone, one Iphone and Ipad and other valuables….”
“That you Ezeugwu Paul Chukwujekwu, Adogah Emmanuel and Ephraim Emeka Ugwuonye all ‘M’ on or about 9/05/2016 in Kagini, Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit illegal act to wit: Culpable Homicide, when you intentionally attacked one Mrs. Charity Chidiebere Aiyedogbon ‘F’ (now late) with cutlasses and other offensive weapon and killed her, when you both knew that death is the probable consequence of your action. You thereby committed offence contrary to and punishable under section 221 of the penal code law.”
This is a matter of live and death.
We can’t die like this… Anambra State Government cannot sit back and sanction our deaths installmentally.
Why should government approve deadly mask to be brought to our homes.
They should remove this from our home or we take drastic measures to seek redress.
Housing Estate Residents in Anambra Protest over Siting of MTN Mast
Residents of Ngozika Housing Estate in Awka, Anambra State, have called for the intervention of the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, over the siting of a telecoms mast in the area by MTN.
Addressing newsmen at the site, the residents said their lives had been endangered by the development.
The spokesman of the residents, Mr Ndubuisi Anaenugwu, said their protest came after they had taken the matter to Ngozika Housing Corporation for the mast to be removed.
Anaenugwu, who said they were told that MTN was given approval to site the mast there by another government organ, called for the immediate dismantling of the mast to safeguard the lives of the residents.
‘Those behind the mast should get it dismantled, if not today; the next day,’ Anaenugwu said, warning that if that was not done, they would be forced to explore other legal actions.
He said it was wrong to site the mast in a residential area in view of its health hazards and without certification by the appropriate authorities.
‘We have made representations to MTN but they told us they got approval from the Anambra Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA), even when the Anambra State Housing Corporation was against it,’ Anaenugwu stated, warning that they would be left with no option than to seek legal means to stop it.
Another resident of the area, Prof Mrs Chinyere Okunna, described the presence of the mast there as a serious health hazard to the residents which was capable of causing cancer. She called on the appropriate government agency to stop the MTN from carrying on with the building of the mast.
For Chidi Akim, another resident, the siting of the mast there was not only dangerous to their health, but was already making the residents to die in installment. He regretted that despite many attempts by the residents to have work stopped at the site, work had continued.
He recalled that the residents had demanded to be shown a copy of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from the telecoms company to prove that it was not harmful but nothing was produced by the company to that effect.
‘The neighbourhood is being compromised. Our lives are in danger; even our roads have been devastated by the heavy trucks deployed to the site. We are dying in installment. Government should put a stop to this because we don’t want to take the law into our hands,’ Akim stated.
For Justice Grace Ifeakandu (rtd), the protest was necessitated by their fruitless efforts to have the project stopped. She said the protest was the first step by residents to stop the project and warned that if nothing was done, they would be left with no option than to go to court.
Efforts to get the management of ACTDA to react to the development proved abortive as the managing director, Ven Okwuosa, pleaded for more time to react.
Barack Obama was just a first-term senator from Illinois when he had the “audacity of hope” to run for president of the United States. It was not only an uphill task; it was an impossible one. To succeed, he had to confront, in the first instance, a principality of the American political firmament in the person of Hilary Clinton, wife of a former president, in the bid to secure the nomination of the Democratic Party.
As far as his wife, Michelle, was concerned, Barack did not stand a chance. In the first place, he is an African-American. No black man had ever become president of the United States. In the second, he was a greenhorn; neither well-known nor well-liked by the powers-that-be in the Democratic Party. Michelle was convinced Barack’s run for the presidency would be nothing but a waste of time and resources.
So Barack asked two of his strategists to have a talk with her. They sat her down and told her the innovations they had devised for defeating Hilary Clinton against all the odds. She listened respectfully and intently. By the time they finished, they had made a believer out of her. She became convinced that Barack would not only secure the nomination hands down, but also go all the way to win the prize of the presidency.
That was the birth of a siren that rang all through the United States for the next few years: “Yes We Can.” The rest, as they say, is history. Barack Obama went on to become the 44th president of the United States. He was one of America’s youngest presidents, and the very first African-American to achieve that feat. He not only won the election handsomely in 2008, he was re-elected for a second term in 2012.
Fierce Urgency of Now
Kingsley Moghalu is the Nigerian Barack Obama: a youthful upstart who dared to confront the ancient juggernauts of the Nigerian political establishment. When he started his journey, he met skeptics along the highway. Many were convinced the APC and the PDP are too entrenched to be dislodged from their traditional supremacy. Others felt his timing was misplaced: Why could he not wait until 2023 when there would be a more open field without an incumbent president?
But it is increasingly clear, from the popular response to his candidacy and from the incredible coalitions he has been able to make, North and South of the Niger, that Kingsley Moghalu is about to confound all expectations by not only dislodging an incumbent president, but by also becoming the very first Nigerian president of South-East extraction.
Like Obama, I believe Moghalu’s audacity was impelled by a thinking similar to that of the late Martin Luther King, who believed that, in all cases, tomorrow is always too late. Said King: “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
When a building is on fire, you don’t wait till tomorrow to get the fire brigade; you become the fire brigade. Once an appendix has ruptured, there is no more time for prevaricating debate and discussion; the patient must be wheeled into the operating theatre for immediate surgery. This is where we find ourselves in Nigeria today. The country is not only sick; it has gone into a coma. Things have fallen apart and the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the land.
Out With the Old
We owe a depth of gratitude that, in contra-distinction from the odd-jobbers of the APC and the PDP, a man as dynamic, experienced and imaginative as Kingsley Moghalu has decided to come to the rescue of Nigeria.
Unlike the aged snake-oil salesmen of the two major parties who are busy trying to convince us that our poverty, insecurity and hopelessness is in some incredulous way to our benefit, Moghalu reminds us that a bad term in office certainly does not deserve another. He tells us in no uncertain terms that the “next level” of our current misery might actually be suicidal.
We have never had it so bad. We have become a nation of beggars; a nation of the jobless and joblessness, a nation of kidnappers and murderers; a nation of enslaved peoples; a nation of bank-robbers and pen-robbers; a nation of tribalists and nepotists; a nation of liars and deceivers; a nation where truth has fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter. We simply cannot go on like this.
Says Moghalu: “Any society that does not regenerate its leadership with new blood cannot regenerate itself.” “It is clear to most Nigerians that the old, recycled politicians have failed and have nothing new to offer us.” Nevertheless, he cautions: “Don’t vote for candidates only because they are “youth” candidates. Fortunately, there are candidates like me who are relatively young but also very experienced in statecraft and have verifiable track records.”
The very same people that have run Nigeria aground are back on the stomps asking for our votes. The same people who have ignored our entreaties over the years are now wearing our clothes and winking at us. They are mouthing sweet-nothings and promising El Dorado. Why should any right-thinking Nigerian pay attention to them again? Why accept their new promissory notes when their motto of the last four years was “APC: All Promises Cancelled?”
Smoke and Mirrors
The smoke and mirrors of this campaign season are no longer working. The wise man’s adage says: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” Those who have convinced themselves that Nigerians will agree to be fooled yet again are the very ones who are fooling themselves. In barely four years, Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world with over 85 million of our people declared to be hungry-poor.
You cannot fool a man who is starving into believing he is fed. You cannot deceive a man who is jobless into believing he is employed. You cannot trick a man who lives under the bridge into believing he lives in a mansion. You cannot convince a man that you are the architect of the change he seeks when he cannot even change his clothes. You cannot claim to be against corruption when you are surrounded by the corrupt. You cannot fight corruption with corruption and by the violation of the rule of law.
Intimidating people to come to your rallies just won’t cut it. Importing foreign children from Niger to your rallies to give the impression that you are popular is a waste of time. All it does is fool the very architects of this tomfoolery into believing they are getting anywhere when they are actually going nowhere. Nigerians are already fed up with these pathetic tricks. That is why, after these rallies are over, the people return enraged to set fire to your brooms.
Grassroots Mobilisation
Away from all these useless shenanigans, there is one serious presidential candidate flying under the radar. His name is Kingsley Moghalu. In the past one year, he has spent a great deal of time crisscrossing Nigeria, bringing hope to the despondent; presenting ideas as weapons; educating our future. He has been meeting the people, engaging all and sundry in town halls and even street corners, talking up his vision for a paradigm shift in Nigerian politics.
“Let’s be clear,” says Moghalu, “the movement of those that want a better and different Nigeria – to which I belong – intends to win the 2019 presidential election.” “Let’s be frank with ourselves. We should be ashamed of ourselves when we elect and re-elect into office politicians whose failed leadership is directly responsible for our poverty.”
What Moghalu has been doing on the quiet is forming a rainbow coalition of the dispossessed and the marginalised of Nigeria. This is grassroots politics on a scale we have never seen before. Moghalu has been making a headway with those who are fed up with Fulani hegemony. He has been reaching the poor and the hungry where they live. He has become the representative of those who believe the government should give security to our farmers, rather than leave them at the mercy of marauding herdsmen.
He has become the megaphone of those imprisoned in internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps, because the Nigerian government has not been able to protect us from the scourge of Boko Haram terrorists. He is providing a beacon of hope to those who believe Nigeria cannot survive without a 365-degree turnaround in leadership, outlook and politics.
New Dawn
Moghalu is, indeed, the voice of one crying in the Nigerian political wilderness. But lo and behold, like the John the Baptist of old, everyone is now flocking to his baptismal and responding to his jeremiads. His message is resonating. His vision is enlightening. His ideas are inspiring and challenging.
The Moghalu train has long left the station. Earlier Doubting Thomas are now convinced his election is inevitable. Nigerians have had enough. They will not vote for the Buharis and the Atikus of old again. They will no longer accept the lie that an APC or PDP president is inevitable. You cannot continue again and again choosing the same tired people who have failed and now hope they will somehow succeed. Change does not emanate from repeating the same mistakes.
Change means opting this time for a new generation of Nigerian leadership; not too young to be chronically inexperienced, or too old to be terminally dyed-in-the-wool. Moghalu represents that middle passage to a bold and enterprising future. He is Nigeria’s passport to a transcendent future. Says Moghalu: “I aspire to be a transformational president that takes Nigeria into the 21st century, much in the same way Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore and Mahathir Mohamad reshaped Malaysia.”
Don’t be surprised when you wake up the day after the presidential election to discover that Kingsley Moghalu is the people’s choice to be Nigeria’s new president. He will confound the bookmakers and astound the naysayers. I am not only saying Moghalu can win. I am saying Moghalu will win; and that finally, a bright new chapter will open in Nigeria’s political history.
This is the real engine where they have breed poverty in Nigeria and have robbed Nigerians of their future.
The same people who have enslaved Nigerians all these years are recycling themself every four years.
They have made Nigerians their Money Making Machine, Nigerians work hard like slaves and they live large like emperors.
It is time to flush them out.
Don’t be Deceived, Nnamdi Kanu Only Cares About Himself
By Mayor Ikoroha
Nnamdi Kanu does not care about Buhari. If he does he wouldn’t be calling Buhari unprintable names. Or claim that the president died in London and was replaced by a certain Jubrin from Sudan.
Kanu does not care about Atiku. If he does he wouldn’t be encouraging his followers to boycott the presidential elections, which will rob Atiku of crucial votes in the South East. Or claim that Atiku actually came from Cameroon.
Kanu does not care about Ohaneze Ndigbo. If he does he wouldn’t use every opportunity to calumniate elders who are striving to protect the interests of the Igbos in Nigeria. He rather sees them opponents who must be undermined because they pose a threat to his supposed suzerainty.
Kanu does not care about those that stuck out their neck for him. He has jumped bail and now luxuriates in the coziness of family and friends in London, leaving Senator Abaribe and others who stood surety for him to their perilous fates.
Kanu does not even care about his parents. Since his reappearance after a one year hiatus, he has refused to highlight the fate of his parents, probably because it would puncture his vainglorious assumptions to heroism. So his parents remain a king and queen far away from their kingdom, a mere footnote to a child’s virulent selfishness.
Kanu does not really care about IPOB members. That was why in the broadcast after his reappearance, he did not recognise those of them who paid the supreme price for buying into his ambitious Biafran project. Even when he effusively mourned the demise of his beloved dog, Jack.
Kanu does not really care about Biafra. He romanticizes Biafra to excite and motivate his followers. But he refuses to tell them the obstacles, the pitfalls, the improbabilities. He screams referendum at will. Without showing any practicable and viable means of achieving that.
Kanu does not really care about Ndigbo. He knows that majority of Igbos are in support of the Atiku/Obi candidacy. But he calls for election boycott to reduce their chances of victory, which will bring more pain and misery to Ndigbo. The same people he claims to lead.
Kanu’s game plan is simple. If the cosmopolitan Atiku wins and with Peter Obi, an Igboman, a heartbeat from becoming Nigeria’s president, a lot of Ndigbo will rekindle their faith in Nigeria. The Biafran agitation would die down. IPOB membership would naturally shrink, donations would dry up and people would no longer look forward to Kanu’s broadcasts. Nnamdi Kanu will become less relevant and maybe inconsequential in the scheme of things.
But if the much hated and despised Buhari wins reelection, the disenchantment and disillusionment of Ndigbo towards the Nigerian project will increase. More people will join or sympathize with IPOB and a lot of people will be eager to listen to Kanu’s incendiary but ultimately empty rhetoric.
Nnamdi Kanu had an opportunity to choose between what will benefit the generality of Ndigbo and what will benefit just himself. He chose that which will benefit him alone. Not surprising because Kanu has never really cared about anybody or anything other than himself.
Owner of the car burnt in Umuoji and brandished attempted kidnap by disgruntled political elements has finally been revealed but after his unjust death.
You probably may have seen the spine chilling and heart wrenching videos being shared on WhatsApp. In one of the videos, a car is shown being burning. In another, a lying murderous member of a certain political party could be heard claiming that the person being beaten to stupor by an irate mob he must have whipped into a frenzy was allegedly sent by Distinguished Senator Victor Umeh to kidnap some kids for ritual purpose. This is a vicious and wicked lie from the pit of hell.
I have had to speak to a few individuals to actually ascertain what transpired. I chose not to watch any of the videos after Dan, a colleague in government sent me the picture of the young man who suffered this unfortunate fate.
His name is Paschal, a native of Ekwulobia and he is known to all of us in government. He operates music and sound equipments and is the person that sets up sound at most government functions in Anambra State.
I never knew that he suffered such a wicked fate until yesterday (Monday, February 4, 2019) when a colleague, the baritone voiced Chido Obidiegwu paid me a visit in the office and pleaded that we help change the narrative of Paschal’s unfortunate death. He said that we must let the world know what happened.
Those that murdered him has spun the web of lies that he was a kidnapper. Paschal a kidnapper? Then the Pope must be a nun.
I have spoken to a few individuals to ascertain what happened. Paschal was actually on his way to Obosi for an assignment, to set up for an event. He had in his vehicle some of his equipment.
However on getting to Umuoji, some young school children knowingly or accidentally threw stones at his passing vehicle and caused some damage. He then alighted from the vehicle to accost the kids that caused such malicious damage.
Who wouldn’t?
The young school children that caused the damage all ran away except for one that wasn’t so lucky. Paschal held him and requested that he leads him to his parents. He had the intention of demanding for the repairs of his damaged vehicle from them.
Meanwhile the kids that has escaped earlier ran to some elders in the community and raised a false alarm that a certain man had ‘kidnapped’ one of them.
They obviously did not disclose fully what had transpired. The men quickly mobilised and confronted Paschal. They didn’t give him a chance to explain himself and pounced on him beating him black and blue.
By the time help came, Paschal was already unconscious and he was taken to Iyi-Enu Hospital, Ogidi. He did survive an emergency surgery but gave up the ghost days later from the injuries sustained from the mob action.
Anambra Police is already in on this matter. I am not able to ascertain if they have been able to apprehend the person whose voice could be heard in the video falsely alleging that Paschal was a kidnapper sent to kidnap kids for ritual purposes.
The police needs to do this so that Pachal may not die in vain. The world should not forget Pascal.
