We are not happy with the ruling of the FCT High Court which condemned only two persons involved in the killings of six Igbo traders in an incidence known as Apo six, Igbo Youth Associations, on Friday had a peaceful protest in Abuja.
The group marched to the FCT High Court and Ministry of Justice, denouncing the Thursday judgment of the Chief Judge of the FCT, Justice Ishaq Bello, on the Apo six case.
Bello had in his ruling in the case which has been in court since 2005, sentenced Emmanuel Baba and Ezekiel Acheneje to death, but discharged Danjuma Ibrahim, Nicholas Zakariah and Sadiq Salami.
Five of them were among six undergoing prosecution over the killing of six Igbo traders on June 7, 2005. The sixth defendant on the charge sheet,, a Divisional Police Officer in Apo, Othman Abdulsalam has been on the run.
They had alleged that the late traders, Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun were armed robbers.
Protesting the ruling, spokesman of the angry group, Chief Chemezie Ifeh and Chief Motimor Ihejirka, wondered why only two people were condemned while Ibrahim, who they said was the main culprit in the act and the rest were freed.
They argued, “Danjuma Ibrahim, the DCP killed Ifeanyi Ozor and now he is free and he was the one who gave the order to the two junior officers to kill the remaining five. We demand that if Danjuma would be free; let the two condemned officers be set free because they acted under the instruction of their superior.
“We demand that this case should not be left to go away like this, the extra-judicial killing must stop. We are submitting our letters to you and hope that you will act on it.’’
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