Oruku crisis: Enugu Judicial Commission of Inquiry calls for Memoranda
The governor urged the people of Oruku community to stay the course of peace, which his administration has striven to entrench and nurture in the state.
Sequel to inauguration of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry by the administration of
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, to investigate and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the recent crisis that erupted in Oruku, Nkanu East Local Government Area, which led to the killing of the community’s traditional ruler, EmmanuelMba, the Commission has called for Memoranda from the general public, individuals, organizations and concerned persons.
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Published 17 January 2021
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
By Nicholas Obisike
Enugu, Jan. 12, 2021 Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has inaugurated a Panel of Inquiry on the recent crisis in Oruku Community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of the state.
Inaugurating the panel in Enugu on Friday, Ugwuanyi urged the people of the community to embrace peace, which his administration had strived to entrench and nurture in the state.
He said the government and people of the state received the sad news of the incident with rude shock.
Members of the panel include Justice Harold Eya as Chairman and the Chairman, Traditional Rulers Council of the state, Igwe Lawrence Agubuzu.
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.
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has urged the people of Oruku Community in Nkanu East Local Government Area to stay the course of peace, which his administration strives to entrench and nurture in the state.
Ugwuanyi’s peace call followed the recent crisis that erupted in Oruku, which led to the killing of the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Emmanuel Chidiebere Mba.
Speaking during the inauguration of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry constituted by his administration to investigate and ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the crisis, Ugwuanyi said that the government and people of the state received the sad news of the incident with rude shock.