Lugard Monday Ogubochi, a 36yearold farmer of Ukpeliede Community in Ahoada West LocalGovernment Area of Rivers State was shot dead by soldiers, while Chimezie Uwe and many othermembers of the same community who were at the scene of the shooting suffered bullet wounds.Chief Sunday Alele and some elders of the community were beaten up and seriously injured by thesoldiers.What apparently caused this incident was an encounter between some youths of the community, threejunior officers of the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n Army and four other men. On May 30, 2006, at about 1100p.m, the youthhad observed the soldiers and the four men who were dressed in plain cloths driving towards ShellPetroleum Development Company (SPDC) manifold in Ukpeliede in a Hilux van without a plate number.The youths accosted them, given that it was an odd hour and given the recurrent cases of vandalizationof pipelines and other oil installations in the NigerDelta region. The four men in plain clothes whoclaimed to be employees of the said company, on sensing danger fled, leaving the three soldiersbehind. The youths took the soldiers to the palace of Chief Joseph Ayipi, the Eze Nweula of Ukpeliede,and the paramount ruler of the community. At the palace, the youths demanded that the soldiers betaken to the police station for proper investigation on their mission at the manifold. While they werebeing taken away, one of the soldiers, Uza Mathew, complained to the chief that his wallet containinghis ID card was missing and that the youths should give it back to him. Chief Joseph Ayipi promised toinquire from the youths if any one of them had seen the wallet and ID card. The youths were amazed atthe claim concerning the ID card and wallet.On June 3, 2006, four days later, while members of Ukeliede Community were having a meeting in thecommunity hall, Eze Joshua Eyibe informed them that soldiers were in his house threatening to invadethe community if the missing items were not returned. Two days later, soldiers arrived Ukpeliede andstarted shooting at random in the course of which Lugard Monday Ogubochi was killed and severalothers wounded. All efforts by Chief Cleta Freeman, a retired police officer in the community to calm theinvading soldiers yielded no result, as their commanding officer (name unknown) said they (soldiers)had not come for dialogue.A day after the shooting and killing of Mr. Lugard Monday Ogubochi, the missing items were found byMr. Reason Opara Egbo from Idu Ekpeye, a neighbouring community and taken to the Ahoada WestLocal Government Chairman, Chief Maxwell Okpokiri, for delivery to the soldiers.Uza Mathew’s ID card©Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, PortHarcourt4
Corpse of Mr. Lugard Monday© Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, PortHarcourt.Chimezie Uwe©Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, PortHarcourt.On February 7, 2006, at about 9.00p.m, 28 year old Adewuyi Daniel Tella of Flat 12, Block 1, No22 Road G Close Festac Town, Lagos was arrested by policemen attached to the Festac PoliceDivision, on his way to visit his sick brother at 22 Road, J Close, Festac Town. On arrest, he wasnot told the reason for it. The following day, his family was asked to come to the police station andidentify his corpse. The police alleged that he had jumped down from a moving police vehicle.In the early hours of July 28, 2006, officers of the Special AntiRobbery squad from the FederalCapital Territory, Abuja went to the compound of Adulkadir Azeez, 70 years old, where he lives withhis extended family in the village of Garun Kurama, Lere Local Government Area, Kaduna State. Thesound of a gunshot woke him up and he went out to find out the cause. Immediately he stepped out ofhis house, he was shot dead. The policemen then went to his son’s house (Ibrahim Abdulkadir), forcedopen the door and shot him dead too.5
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