Ifeanyi Ozor and Augustina Arebu could have been celebrating 15 years of marriage, if they were alive. A decade and a half have passed but the gory memories
Ifeanyi Ozor and Augustina Arebu could have been celebrating 15 years of marriage, if they were alive.
The crude reality has been tears. The night marked the beginning of month-long meetings, court appearances and adjournments, physical and emotional exhaustion, nightmares, and more deaths.A decade and a half have passed but the gory memories of the murders have stayed with them. “Out of shock, my father had a stroke and died,” Edwin Meniru, the elder brother to Chinedu of the Apo six told PREMIUM TIMES.
The friends headed for their usual rendezvous – a lounge at Grand Mirage Hotel at Port Harcourt street off Gimbiya street, Garki, Abuja. “When the news broke that particular morning, the whole Apo mechanic village was shut,” said Emeka Ani, an age-long friend of the victims. “There was no business for more than a week due to the crisis and riots that followed.”
Mr Meniru, who survived the first onslaught quickly called his elder brother, Edwin, to inform him what was happening but life was also snuffed out of him by the rampaging cops.“There is nowhere else to look except at the bodies. There is a close-up of a face, gaping exit-wound at the temple,” Amobi Nzelu, the then-lawyer to the victims’ families, was quoted in a BBC article of May 5, 2009.
But the presiding judge, Ishaq Bello, said “there was not enough evidence to convict Mr Danjuma”, who allegedly ordered the shootings.
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