The Apo Six victims of killing by police
According to an exclusive report by SaharaReporters,
the Nigerian Police Force has ordered the reinstatement of Deputy
Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Danjuma an officer responsible for the
extra-judicial of killing five young auto spare parts traders and a
young woman on June 7, 2005, in Apo township, a satellite settlement at
the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja.
The victims, Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru,
Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwokike, and Augustina Arebu, were returning
from a nightclub when they were stopped at a police checkpoint and
extra-judicially murdered by a contingent of policemen led by Danjuma.
The directive for the officer’s reinstatement was contained in a
Police wireless message (DTO 1718000/11/2017) addressed to the Police
Service Commission. According to the wireless message, obtained by
SaharaReporters claims the reinstatement of the officer Danjuma and
other police officers included in the message following their successful "appeal of their dismissal from the Force".
Ibrahim Danjuma (Photo: SaharaReporters)
The officers are Danjuma Ibrahim, a Deputy Commissioner of Police;
Fausat Azeez Oduwole, an Assistant Commissioner of Police; Bethram C
Onuoha, Chief Superintendent, Okwuonu Allwell, a Chief Superintendent;
Nonyerem Ejike Akubuike; a Deputy Superintendent of Police; Barakiya
Yusuf and Onuorah Emmanuel, both Assistant Superintendents of Police.
However, Oseni Tajudeen, whose appeal was rejected, had his dismissal
upheld.
DCP Ibrahim Danjuma, the wireless message showed, will be paid the
arrears of his salary dating back to June 18, 2005, and sent on a
refresher course. Danjuma was revealed as the officer who shot some of
the traders and stranged the only female traveling that night they
encountered the bloodthirsty police team.
The killing of the six persons provoked national outrage. The
police had claimed that the victims, aged between 21 and 25 years, were
members of a robbery gang that had shot at the officers at a checkpoint.
However, a judicial panel of inquiry set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo dismissed the police account as false and recommended the trial of the officers for extra-judicial killings.EXCLUSIVE: #ApoSix: @PoliceNG Police Reinstates Officer Who Killed Igbo Traders | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/K2AtTNZRGQ pic.twitter.com/AbgQCtO0PQ— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) November 23, 2017
The trial dragged for over a decade until two of the officers were
sentenced to death in March 2017, curiously, Danjuma was freed by the
judge who sat on the case. The officers accused of the killings and
eight other police witnesses eventually testified before the panel of
inquiry that Ibrahim, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and the most
senior of the accused, had ordered the killings.
The report of the panel stated that the victims were at a nightclub
located at Gimbiya Street, Area 11, in Abuja that night of June 7,
2005, when they had a face-off with Ibrahim after the only female among
the victims, rejected Ibrahim’s romantic advances.
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