By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
The leadership of the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) on Tuesday said it received with rude shock, disbelief, and dismay the burning to ashes of the slain body of Citizen Samuel Okoro (Gentle Biggy) and a red 2013 model Toyota Camry car by a joint team of soldiers, police, Directorate of State Services (DSS) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), otherwise called ‘NHSS Tactical Team’.
A statement by the InterSociety signed by Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi and two others said the burning took place after the lawyer’s elder brother, Joel, was pushed out of the killer squads convoy at Ojoto in Idemmili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
It disclosed that “the videos and photos of the charred body of the lawyer’s PA and the red Camry car have gone viral and still trending in the social media.
The videos and photos included where his family members were struggling to gather together his remains for internment.
Meanwhile, the InterSociety said it had also stumbled on a leaked intra security agency’s signals forwarded by the killer squad to their superiors, informing them about the outcome of the murderous operation.
According to the body, the signal titled “Arrest of Four High Profile ESN members in Anambra State”, the operatives called themselves “NHSS Tactical Team” signals and claimed as follows: “that they carried out an operation on 6th June 2021 in the residence of Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the legal adviser of IPOB in Oraifite, Ekwusigo, Anambra State at 0315 hours and arrested four top commanders of ESN that have been terrorizing Anambra State and its environs.”
It noted that the security agents one “Gentle Lion (refereeing to the Lawyer’s slain Personal Assistant, Samuel Uzo Okoro), as No 5 on the wanted list died while trying to escape from arrest.”
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According to the signal, “In the course of the arrest, charms, red Toyota Camry and IPOB items were recovered”, that “meanwhile the other three suspects are in the command holding facility for interrogation and further action” and “attached are the pictures of the targets, forwarded for your information and further action please”.
The leaked ‘signals including photos of the three innocent domestic staffees of the Human rights lawyer are hereby attached.”
However, Intersociety said it had put the United Nations Rights bodies, the International Criminal Court, the United States, the European Union (EU), Canada, United Kingdon (UK), international human rights bodies and human rights research institutions; local and international media on notice about the ugly incident.
It said that its members “firmly demand pressures and proactive concrete steps from them concerning the above and other grisly and egregious human rights abuses and violations by Nigeria’s present security forces.”
*It saddens our heart that the above-named institutions and bodies have kept quiet and slumbered, watching and allowing the country’s political administrators and security forces to steadily, deeply, gravely, maddeningly, and rapaciously turn the state’s instruments of violence against defenseless and unarmed population particularly the Christian citizens of old Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria.”
“It is universally unheard of, that security operatives kept and sustained with citizens’ tax payers and other collective wealth could beastly or wildly go as far as invading legally recognizable and respected citizens such as licensed legal practitioners’ family houses at the dead of the night and abduct them alongside their wives in their nakedness with intent to humiliate and degrade them including setting them and their properties on fire and roguishly labeling them so as to escape being detected or held criminally and legally culpable.”
“The world must therefore act now on Nigeria and its butchery Government before it is too late because nobody including state actor agency holds a monopoly of violence”, the statement added.
