By Ovat Abeng
A veteran human right activist, Mr Bonaventure Ezekwenna has urged governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo to urgently investigate an alleged gross corruption currently ravaging the Anambra State Ministry of Justice.
Ezekwenna made the call while briefing Journalists in Awka on Monday to sake justice over alleged harassment, intimidation, forcefully taking of his landed property and deadly threat to his life by a suspected land-grabber at Nnobi community in Idemili South Local Government Area of the State.
He alleged that the suspect and other gangsters threatening his life and terrorizing the State at large are been aided and abetted by Persecutors at the State Ministry of Justice.
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He also alleged that the persecutors at the ministry demanded huge sum of money from him, ranging from N150,000 to N1million to diligently prosecute the case.
According to him, my problem started after about 40 years sojourn in United States of America, I decided to invest in my hometown, Nnobi community in Idemili South Local Government Area of the State on September 2, 2021 when I bought uncompleted property at Nnobi for ten million. I paid with bank draft according to law of Nigeria, and I killed a goat on the land according to Nnobi and Igbo customs and traditions. As I began to develop the property, a land-grabber stormed and attacked the place threatening violence. He stated that he bought the property a year before me for N20m cash, he demanded N20m from me to continue development. He demolished my property and stole my building materials. He also stated he is a native doctor and runs several deadly shrines in Nnobi town and other places. He told me that Police from local station to State Police headquarters to IGP office are on his hands and inside his pocket.
“I made inquiry who the fellow is and found out that I have stumbled upon hardcore heinous criminal syndicates (Yahoo+cult shrines gangsters), kidnaping, killing and dismembering people, assassinating, robbing, burning Police station, land-grabbing terrorizing and destabilizing communities in Anambra State, Nigeria. These criminals pretend they are native doctors and traditionalists but they are actually what is known within law enforcement in Nigeria as yahoo+crimes, which includes violent land-grabbing.
“Even the leadership of the Nnobi town are so scared of these yahoo+ cult gangsters and their syndicates because of their connections to very rich people in the society and law enforcement (Police), judiciary officials and persecutors.
The information on the atrocities of the syndicates are hidden on plain sights, they are open secret. Dead bodies and dismembered dead bodies are appearing on the roadside and bushes at Nnobi and surrounding towns, especially at Obi-Aja stream which is about 15/20 minutes walk from Nnobi Police station and less than 3 minutes drive to Ojoto, the headquarters of Idemili South Local Government Area.
While describing the situation as incredible, Ezekwenna respectfully urged governor Soludo to order an urgent and Independent review of the handling of these cases by the State Attorney General’s office.
However, when contacted the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the State, Prof Silvia Ifemeje on the development via telephone, she urged Ezekwenna to direct his complaint to the governor who is her employer, noting that she has warned the complainant several times not to give money to any persecutor in the Ministry over the matter.
