For months that chaos and anarchy reigned in Imo State, unprecedented police and military brutalities that led to alleged extrajudicial killings of unarmed citizens were reported.
Tobechi said Noel’s mobile phone was called repeatedly but it was not answered.
“We became alarmed and suspected that something grave must have happened when we saw that the vehicle’s rear windshield was shattered. There were blood stains everywhere, especially on the driver’s seat, while the four tyres were deflated. “I described Noel to him and a few minutes later, I was called to identify his corpse. He had been embalmed and there were two bullet wounds on his head. The soldiers registered my brother as an unknown corpse with the N5,000 they found in his pocket. One of them wrote down his mobile phone number.
Having waited for two weeks without getting a response from the army, Noel’s elder brother went to submit a reminder on May 18, and was told that he should have given the army two months to respond. “The soldiers revealed that it was the same bullet that shattered the back windscreen and that it was still embedded. They concluded that it was fired from the back, if actually Noel violated the checkpoint rule.
Though he was denied access to the commander for not sending a formal notification, he was later directed to see the chief-of-staff, Lieutenant Colonel Adebayo. He said Col. Adebayo tactically ruled out any soldier’s complicity in his brother’s death, and maintained that investigation was still ongoing.
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