Arraign Him In Court If He’s Still Alive – BIG President
April 13, 2021
By Emmanuel Nnadi, Owerri
Tension is brewing in Onitsha among the members of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike- led movement for actualization of sovereign state of Biafra ( BIM-MASSOB) following the rumoured death of Mr. Ikechukwu Ajah, in police custody in Onitsha, Anambra- state.
Ikechukwu Ajah was arrested on sunday 21st March along Obodoukwu road, Nkutaku, Ogbaru LGA, for wearing a T-shirt with the inscription ‘ United States of Biafra’ and since then had been detained without trial at the area command’s headquarters, Onitsha .
According to the groups Chief welfare officer for Anambra North , Mr. Kenneth Aririka who briefed the press in a statement said Ikechukwu Ajah died of severe torture inflicted on him by the police while trying to force him to admit a membership of the proscribed indigenous people of Biafra’, IPOB.
Aririka said several attempts made by his counsel and relatives of the detained BIM- MASOB member at the central police station, CPS, Onitsha, with a view to securing his bail yielded no results.
” Policemen prevented us to see our member who had being kept incommunicado since March 21. We got to Area commander for Onitsha, Mr. John Obuagbuaka but he ignored our team who visited his office”
Reacting to the rumoured death of Mr. Ikechukwu Ajah in police Custody, Biafra’ director of information and senior special assistant to president of internal government, Elder Chris Mocha demanded for his immediate release if he was still alive.
Mocha said Ikechukwu Ajah is a member of the internationally recognized non – violent organization that is campaigning for Biafra through peaceful means and does not believe in violent agitation.
Mocha wondered why the police had chosen to torture Mr. Ikechukwu to death even after it was clearly established to the commissioner of police that he belonged to Uwazuruike’s BIM-MASSOB
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