From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
A group known as Widows Defenders Forum (WDF) has charged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) team investigating the alleged extra-judicial killings by some police officers in Anambra State to be thorough and unbiased in their job to ensure that justice prevails in the matter.
The group, which made the appeal while addressing newsmen in Onitsha, yesterday, also demanded that the investigating team carry out their job with a human face and bury their sentiments and sympathy.
The Commander of the Anti Robbery Squad of the Anambra State Police Command, Mr Patrick Agbazue, and the Zone 13 Command Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO), Nkiruka Nwode, and others were taken to Abuja on the orders of IGP, to answer questions on alleged extra-judicial killings, organ harvest and withdrawing suspects’ money.
But Widows’ Defenders’ Forum (WDF), during a briefing, expressed shock that Nwode, who championed the cause of the oppressed, would be involved in such an ugly act. ‘Not possible’.
The Executive Director of the group, Mrs Chinyere Anunihu, said Nwode has been using her salary to take care of the widows by paying school fees for their children and building houses for them.
The WDF said they doubted the veracity of the allegations, adding that the whole thing might have been caused by petty jealousy because of her commitment to helping humanity, especially the widows.
Anunihu said Nwode, as a dedicated officer who has no dent or scandal in her record, might have been marked by enemies for destruction by linking her with alleged extra-judicial killings and organ harvesting.
Describing the allegations not only as strange but embarrassing, she said after their emergency executive meeting, where they reviewed the allegations against Nwode by the enemies of progress, they decided to call on the investigating panel to ensure that justice and fairness were accorded the parties involved.
In the meeting which the representatives of the children of the Widows Nwode had helped attend, they insisted that those who made the allegations should come forward with facts to prove their case. Anunihu said the allegations should not be limited to social media, adding that those behind the campaigns of calumny and character assassination were paid agents aimed at destroying the brilliant career of Nwode.
“But they will fail since they are not coming up with concrete proofs. We warn that those who are prying into other people’s private lives should desist from such despicable and unprofitable ventures since all will face the judgment of Almighty, either negatively or positively,” said Mrs Anunihu.
She said those behind the allegations should know that there are consequences for their actions because “whatever a man/woman sows, he/she will reap”.