The traditional ruler was shot dead on December 26, 2020.
The assassination sparked a disorder that caused destruction of lives and property in the community.
At the Judicial Commission of Inquiry investigating Mba’s killing, Nwatu linked the killing to the late royal father’s plan to review land transactions.
He recalled that Igwe was killed on the same day Mba planned to inaugurate a seven-man Oruku Land Review and Reform Committee.
Nwatu, ex-Chairman of the Oruku Town Union Caretaker Committee, said the reform team was to scrutinize land sales to meet the current needs and interests of Oruku.
Incumbent chairman of the committee, Linus Nwatu, alleged that 23 collaborators and sponsors were fueling cultist activities in the town to destroy it.
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Thirty-eight-year-old Igwe Emmanuel Mbah of Oruku community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State was addressing members of his community in a town-hall meeting on December 26, 2020 when policemen allegedly stormed the venue and shot him dead. In this interview with
RAPHAEL EDE
How
did your family receive the news of the killing of your brother, Igwe Emmanuel Mbah?
It is the greatest shock of our life. Nobody envisaged that such a thing would happen, not even on a day when he was in the middle of a peace-making meeting. The police came and gruesomely murdered him, just like that. If you are asked to invite someone or arrest someone, the normal procedure is to invite the person and if the person refuses to come, then you can go for arrest. When you come for an arrest, you need to identify yourself, by saying, ‘I am a policeman from this area, you are under arrest’. But surprisingly, this (killing) happened in
The Oruku natives protesting at Enugu Government House on Monday
• We do not trust the police investigation into the killing of late Igwe Emmanuel Mbah ,they say
Hundreds of people from Oruku Community in Nkanu-East Local Government Area of Enugu State on Monday stormed the premises of Government House, Enugu to protest the killing of their traditional ruler, Igwe Emmanuel Mbah.
The protest which was peaceful, came barely two weeks after Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi inaugurated a judicial commission of inquiry headed by Justice Harold Eya to ascertain the remote and immediate cause of the brutal murder of the royal father.
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By Dennis Agbo
There is palpable fear in Oruku community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, as the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Emmanuel Mba, was allegedly killed by men suspected to be policemen from Force Headquarters, Abuja.
It was gathered that many houses, cars and other property were also razed in the community in an orgy of violence that started Saturday and continued yesterday.
One of the villagers revealed that the fracas started on Saturday when the now-deceased traditional ruler was presiding over the town meeting and a group of uniformed men believed to be policemen from Abuja stormed the meeting.