A dumpsite has been
discovered near Aba, Abia State, where over 20 human skulls and decomposing
bodies, including those of school children were found. The site, which was a
horror to behold was located, at about kilometre 15 on the Aba/Azumini Highway
at an area called “No man’s land” after Akpaa village in Obingwa Local
Government of the state.
The discovery followed the
arrest of four policemen attached to the Federal Highway Patrol unit of the
Nigeria Police, Aba Section, who allegedly killed a 26-year-old man in Aba.
The policemen led by their
officer-in-charge, Hyginus Omeze, who were ordered to be detained by the Area
Commander for Aba, Rabiu Dayi were alleged to have murdered one Onyekachi
Chukwu, 26 and dumped his body at the site.
Daily Sun gathered that on
Sunday June 23 Onyekachi, who hailed from Ahaba Imenyi in Isuikwuato Local
Government and lived at No. 47 Ukaegbu Road, went out with his friends to drink
in a hotel located on Ekenna Avenue. After spending the day, Onyekachi was said
to have decided to pass the night in the house of one of his friends residing
also in Ogbor hill.
According to a source, as he
made to knock at the gate, the policemen came from nowhere and after beating
him, got him arrested. The cops, who were said to have refused all pleas by
people residing in the neighbourhood, arrested Onyekachi together with the gate
man of the friend’s house and the caretaker and took them to a hotel on Opobo
Road, Ogbor hill, which also served as their base.
On getting to the hotel,
Daily Sun learnt the policemen left the other two men behind in the hotel and
took Onyekachi out in their Toyota Prado SUV and drove towards Azumini. After
about one hour, the policemen were said to have come back to the hotel without
the young man.
On getting back to the
hotel, the policemen took the men they earlier left behind and took them back
to where they were earlier arrested and ordered the occupants of the house to
wash their vehicle and contribute money for them to replace the bullets, which
they claimed they had wasted and the people complied without knowing what the
policemen did.
The bubble, however, busted
when the relations of Onyekachi, after days of searching for him without
success made formal complaint to the police, who swung into action immediately
and traced their colleagues, who allegedly committed the dastardly acts to the
hotel, where four of them were arrested.
According to Uchechi Chukwu,
an elder brother to the deceased, who believed the young man was killed for
rituals, going by the way his body was dismembered; it was through the effort
of the area commander that the policemen were arrested.
Then the arrested policemen,
who were said to have admitted to the crime, took their colleagues to the
borrow-pit along the Aba/Azumini Highway, where they dumped the dismembered
body of Onyekachi. When Daily Sun visited the borrow-pit at “no man’s land,” where
Onyekachi’s body was buried in a shallow grave, the site was a horror to
behold, as several human skulls and decomposing bodies, including that of
school children.
Also found in the place
included a piece of iron zinc which surroundings were splattered with blood and
believed to been where Onyekachi was slaughtered and his vital organs removed,
according to his relations.
There was equally a human
organ believed to be a bladder left on the ground, where the slain man’s body
was found and also hand gloves believed to have been worn by those who murdered
the man. When contacted on phone, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO),
Abia Command, Geoffrey Ogbonna, while confirming the incident, denied that the
young man was killed for ritual purposes.
Culled from Sun
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