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Military Men, Police Looted Our Shops While Searching For Killers Of Jonathan's Ex-aide, Gulak

 


At least 20 traders in the Market Square in Owerri, Imo State are presently counting their losses after personnel of the Nigerian Army and the police, aided by hoodlums looted their shops while searching for the killers of Ahmed Gulak, former adviser to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

 It was heard from some of the traders who lamented that their means of livelihood were ravaged by the uniformed men under the guise of searching for the suspects.

Gulak, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, was shot dead on Saturday evening after he had reportedly left his hotel without his security details, according to the police.

 It was   reported from the traders that some military personnel aided by hoodlums of northern extraction after the incident mobilised to the market Square and “looted wantonly in revenge.”

The Northerners living around Enyiogugu backed by military men, in the name of serving as informants to aid the arrest of the killers, went from one big shop to the other as they looted and packed away the goods. They prevented people from taking videos and photos,” one of the traders    said.

 The affected traders include; George Ndulaka, who lost assorted drinks; Frank Akubueze also lost assorted drinks and his restaurant; Chidozie Njoku had his assorted foodstuffs, fridge and generator carted away.

Meanwhile, Crescentia Nwahuckwu lost bags of rice, many cartons of noodles, provisions and cartons of wines and assorted drinks. Others who lost drinks were; John Akushie and Chukwudi Nwagwu.

John Opara and Onyinyechi Opara lost their generator sets, their refrigerators and their drinks while Livinus Anufuro lost assorted electrical and electronic items.

A civic group also, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, on June 2, wrote a petition to the Inspector General of Police, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission and the Imo State Commissioner of Police, detailing the plight of the affected traders.

Contrary to the statements of the Imo State Police Command, a lorry loaded with onions from northern Nigeria and moving from Umuahia to Obowo and Ahiara was waylaid at Enyiogugu Market Square in Aboh-Mbaise by aggrieved violent citizens leading to passersby, including church goers and returnees and some Okada riders, etc. scrambling for their share of the loot.

In reprisal, following phone calls by some northern Muslim civilians, soldiers stormed the scene and opened fire in the crowded Market Square and shot indiscriminately and in the end, scores of unarmed citizens were killed or injured. With the killing of Mr. Gulak, security agencies including the Imo State Police Command turned around and controversially linked the incident to the assassination and labelled the slain and maimed victims as 'Eastern Security Network (ESN)' hoodlums that killed Gulak

This was even after the violent deviants that waylaid the lorry-load of onions had left the scene. Cars displayed by the police as 'operational exhibits belonging to the ESN hoodlums' are said to be those belonging to motorists using the route,” the group said, while calling for detailed police investigation into the incident.

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