Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie
hehehehe...... Policemen in Anambra state have arrested the brother of Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie over the killing of five people.
A 70-year-old brother of a Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie has been
arrested by policemen following the death of five persons killed in a
land dispute at Nteje, Oyi local government area of Anambra State.
The traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Rowland Odegbo,
disclosed this to newsmen in Awka, the state capital on Monday. He said
18 persons had been arrested from the community over the dispute,
including a 70-year-old brother of a Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie.
According to Punch, Odegbo said he escaped being arrested following
Governor Willie Obiano’s intervention. He decried incessant harassment
of his people by the police from outside the state, stating that his
community was under police siege.
He said some of the people killed were the morgue, while most
youths in the area had fled the town and hidden in forests for fear of
being arrested and taken to Abuja by the powers that be.
He gave the list of the persons arrested and being detained in
Abuja SARS as Chief Ikechukwu Edochie, Chief Cyril Nwankwo, Mr. Vincent
Okongu, Pastor Vin Nnaemeka, Modilim Nwene, Anthony Ewenike, Dominic
Oboh, Sunday Mobi, Paul Aghadinuno, the landMonday Nwafor and Nwoye
Amamchukwu.
Others were Obelagu Mobi, Koife Chukwuemeka, Ogwugwua Nweke,
Fidelis Cordi, Ibe Kenneth, Chijioke Anyanti and Uchenna Oraegbunam.
The monarch said the land dispute was engineered by land
speculators who constituted themselves into a cabal and illegally sold
communal land for many years.
He said they were not making any returns to the villagers, hence
trouble began which led to the death of three persons on 11th of March
this year when two factions involved in the sale of the land clashed.
He said when some soldiers intervened in the matter to quell the
riot, one of the groups attacked the soldiers, leading to the death of
one other person whose body was still in the mortuary.
Calling on Governor Obiano to set up a panel of enquiry to look into the matter, Igwe Odegbo said: “The
major problem we have is that one policeman, who was at the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu and now an assistant commissioner of
police in charge of SARS in Abuja, is being used to come into Nteje and
arrest people and take them to Abuja without recourse to the Anambra
State police command”.
His statement said “There was even a petition that I, the
traditional ruler, should be brought to Abuja and they would have
carried me if the Anambra State governor had not intervened.
“I was addressing a village meeting when the policemen came and
said that I was needed in Abuja. However, following the intervention of
the governor, they asked me to come at my own time, but I knew that was
a face-saving measure on their part.
“When one person was killed recently, the same Abuja SARS came to Nteje and arrested many people who are yet to be released.
“I don’t know why Abuja SARS should be bypassing Anambra State
police command to come and carry people to Abuja. What borders me is
that when three people were killed in March, there was a petition to the
police, while another group wrote another petition and included me.
“What has been happening here is that petitions have been
flying and arrests made indiscriminately. I really don’t understand why
our people should be intimidated by a group and trying to rope in the
traditional ruler because someone was opposed to my being crowned the
Igwe of Nteje.
“Our community needs help because we are under police siege
from Abuja. Those arrested were carried in two buses and taken to Abuja
on thumped up charges and I would have been among them if I am not the
traditional ruler.”
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