[ Masterweb Reports ] – Who do you think is telling the truth on what happened that resulted in the death of John Ndubuka, a cousin and Personal Assistant (PA) to Abia State governor’s first son, Engr. Chinedum Orji on Saturday, February 15 this month. Do you believe John Ndubuka’s family or what appears to be irresponsible journalism that will not wait for the conclusion of investigations before jumping to guilty verdict?
Read what John's brother and friends posted on Facebook below:
His brother Henry Ndubuka wrote on his Facebook page: “GONE TOO SOON - 1978 to 2014. My only brother, John Ndubuka died yesterday 2/15/14. He died of an accidental discharge by a police security personnel while they were exiting an official government function in Umuahia, Nigeria. He was a true Son to me and I pray that his wife, my mother, my sisters, his friends, co-workers at the Government house Umuahia, and associates will have the courage to bear his death. Johnny, I will always love you and will rather give up my life so you can live. You will forever remain vividly in my mind.”
Click to read what John's friends posted on Facebook.
While Masterweb commends members of the Nigeria Police Force who have honestly dedicated their lives to the protection of lives and property in Nigeria, we will not relent in condemning all the bad eggs in the force. We salute the police officer who saved our CEO from untimely death in Umuahia in the hands of an armed robber in Nigeria Police Force who unsuccessfully hatched out plans for the murder and robbery of our Chief Executive. It happened in December of 2011 when our CEO who was in Nigeria on vacation was on his way with his wife and daughter to visit a relative at World Bank Estate, Umuahia. Our CEO who was trying to find his way at the estate made a legitimate left turn into a street with a police post in the midst of other residential buildings - the time was 8.25 pm. An armed police officer lying in wait for a prey at gun point ordered our CEO to stop and out of the car. Our CEO came out of the car with both hands in the air. All the police officer was shouting was: "I will kill you". "I will kill you", "I will kill you", cocking his gun four times as our CEO pled for his life, explaining that he was trying to find his way to Coping Junction. The trigger happy officer ordered another officer who came to the scene to search our CEO's car. The intervening officer shouted: "Don't you see he is a chief", "Ihugi owu chief" (Ihugi owu chief is "Don't you see he is a chief" in Igbo). He refused to search our CEO's car. The trigger happy evil officer now turned around to speak in Igbo that he was sorry for his action, that he thought our CEO was one of the teenagers driving around drinking and smoking dope. Our CEO in his mid fifties could not have been mistaken for a teenager.
The truth was that it was dark and the evil police officer in question suspecting that our CEO had money, planned to rob and murder him, thereafter killing both his wife and daughter, then finding something to cover up the crime. Our CEO's wife might have helped in getting the intervening officer save the situation by complaining to him as soon as he stepped out that what his fellow officer was doing to an innocent law-abiding unarmed citizen was wrong.
When our CEO visited the police post the following morning, the DPO in the building told him that all streets adjourning their post were thoroughfare. He said he did not understand why the officer threatened to kill our CEO. Efforts by our CEO to file a complaint against the evil officer were frustrated by the relative he was visiting at World Bank Estate who warned him that the police would raid her residence at night if he took any action against the officer. People we gathered are afraid of reporting cases involving the police for fear of reprisal by criminal elements in the force.
Masterweb hereby calls on the Inspector General (IG) of Police to use his good offices in ensuring that:
1. A credible autopsy on late John Ndubuka to determine the cause of death is carried out.
2. The police officer that killed John Ndubuka is identified and prosecuted in court to the full extent of the law.
3. All criminal elements in Nigeria Police Force are identified and flushed out.
4. The gunmen who robbed and murdered Odinigwe Mokelu in Port Harcourt on his way back from Church on Sunday, June 19, 2011 are identified and prosecuted in court.
5. All unsolved murders in Nigeria are properly investigated to determine those responsible for the nefarious act.
6. Nigeria Police does its best in protecting lives and property in the country, and reducing to a minimal corruption within its ranks. Nobody has the right to order the shooting of an unarmed civilian – so no police officer can claim his or her boss ordered the killing of an unarmed, harmless civilian.
*Photo Caption - Ademola Aderinto being manhandled and eventually shot dead Monday, January 9, 2012 by Nigeria Police officers at Ogba, Lagos State, Nigeria, during Occupy-Nigeria protest against fuel subsidy removal. *Occupy Nigeria is a socio-political protest movement that began in Nigeria on Monday, 2 January 2012 in response to the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government.
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