in line with PUNCH, the conventional ruler of the network, Igwe Rowland Odegbo, disclosed this to newsmen in Awka, the state capital on Monday, pronouncing 18 folks were arrested from the network over the dispute, together with a 70-12 months-old brother of a Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie.
Odegbo stated he escaped being arrested following Governor Willie Obiano’s intervention. He decried incessant harassment of his humans by the police from outside the kingdom, declaring that his network became under police siege.
He stated some of the humans k!lled have been the morgue, at the same time as maximum youths within the location had fled the city and hidden in forests for fear of being arrested and brought to Abuja through the powers that be.
He gave the list of the individuals arrested and being detained in Abuja SARS as chief Ikechukwu Edochie, leader Cyril Nwankwo, Mr. Vincent Okongu, Pastor Vin Nnaemeka, Modilim Nwene, Anthony Ewenike, Dominic Oboh, Sunday Mobi, Paul Aghadinuno, the landMonday Nwafor and Nwoye Amamchukwu.
Others had been Obelagu Mobi, Koife Chukwuemeka, Ogwugwua Nweke, Fidelis Cordi, Ibe Kenneth, Chijioke Anyanti and Uchenna Oraegbunam.
The monarch stated the land dispute was engineered through land speculators who constituted themselves right into a cabal and illegally sold communal land for many years.
He stated they had been not making any returns to the villagers, subsequently trouble started out which brought about the loss of life of 3 persons on 11th of March this 12 months whilst factions concerned in the sale of the land clashed.
He stated when some squaddies intervened in the remember to quell the insurrection, one of the companies attacked the soldiers, leading to the loss of life of 1 different person whose body changed into nonetheless in the mortuary.
Calling on Governor Obiano to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate the matter, Igwe Odegbo said: “The foremost trouble we've got is that one policeman, who become at the unique Anti-robbery Squad, SARS, Awkuzu and now an assistant commissioner of police in fee of SARS in Abuja, is being used to return into Nteje and arrest people and take them to Abuja without recourse to the Anambra country police command”.
His assertion stated “there was even a petition that I, the traditional ruler, ought to be added to Abuja and they'd have carried me if the Anambra state governor had no longer intervened.
“i used to be addressing a village meeting whilst the policemen came and said that i used to be wished in Abuja. however, following the intervention of the governor, they requested me to come at my personal time, but I knew that changed into a face-saving degree on their part.
“while one character became k!lled these days, the same Abuja SARS came to Nteje and arrested many folks who are but to be released.
“I don’t understand why Abuja SARS should be bypassing Anambra kingdom police command to come and carry people to Abuja. What borders me is that after three people have been k!lled in March, there was a petition to the police, while any other institution wrote some other petition and blanketed me.
“What has been occurring here is that petitions were flying and arrests made indiscriminately. I honestly don’t recognize why our humans ought to be intimidated via a collection and looking to rope within the conventional ruler because someone became against my being crowned the Igwe of Nteje.
“Our network needs help due to the fact we're below police siege from Abuja. the ones arrested were carried in two buses and brought to Abuja on thumped up charges and i'd had been amongst them if i am now not the conventional ruler.”
