Family members of six traders who
were killed in Abuja in June 2005 yesterday took their protest to the office of
the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami
(SAN), to register their displeasure over the judgment of an Abuja High Court
which sentenced to death two out of the six police officers who were charged
for complicity in the killings.
Justice Ishaq Bello of the FCT
High Court in Abuja had Thursday sentenced two police officers, Ezekiel
Acheneje and Emmanuel Baba, to death for killing two of the six traders in
Abuja on June 8, 2005.
The two policemen were found
guilty of extra-judicial killing of Augustina Arebun and Anthony Nwokike at the
Gaduwa Estate of Abuja. However three others including Deputy
Commissioner of Police (DCP) Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami
and Sadiq Salami were discharged and acquitted by the court for want of
evidence.
While protesting yesterday, the
leader of the protesters, Chief Chimezie Ifeh who is also the chairman of Apo
Traders Association, vehemently opposed the court’s decision on the matter.
Ifeh queried the propriety of the
court judgment, saying, “The real culprits of the gruesome murder of the
Apo Six are let off the hook.” He said: “It was DCP Danjuma Ibrahim that
orchestrated and executed our brothers and sister.
But the same police officer
and his cohorts were freed on Thursday by the court. We urge the AGF to appeal
against the judgment and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book.”
Addressing the protesters on
behalf of the AGF, the Director of Legal Drafting at the Federal Ministry of
Justice, Mr. Tahir Hamzam, thanked them for the orderly manner of the protest,
saying the AGF would look into their grievances.
Family members of six traders who
were killed in Abuja in June 2005 yesterday took their protest to the office of
the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami
(SAN), to register their displeasure over the judgment of an Abuja High Court
which sentenced to death two out of the six police officers who were charged
for complicity in the killings.
Justice Ishaq Bello of the FCT
High Court in Abuja had Thursday sentenced two police officers, Ezekiel
Acheneje and Emmanuel Baba, to death for killing two of the six traders in
Abuja on June 8, 2005.
The two policemen were found
guilty of extra-judicial killing of Augustina Arebun and Anthony Nwokike at the
Gaduwa Estate of Abuja. However three others including Deputy
Commissioner of Police (DCP) Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami
and Sadiq Salami were discharged and acquitted by the court for want of
evidence.
While protesting yesterday, the
leader of the protesters, Chief Chimezie Ifeh who is also the chairman of Apo
Traders Association, vehemently opposed the court’s decision on the matter.
Ifeh queried the propriety of the
court judgment, saying, “The real culprits of the gruesome murder of the
Apo Six are let off the hook.” He said: “It was DCP Danjuma Ibrahim that
orchestrated and executed our brothers and sister. But the same police officer
and his cohorts were freed on Thursday by the court.
We urge the AGF to appeal
against the judgment and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book.”
Addressing the protesters on
behalf of the AGF, the Director of Legal Drafting at the Federal Ministry of
Justice, Mr. Tahir Hamzam, thanked them for the orderly manner of the protest,
saying the AGF would look into their grievances.
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