Enugu community petitions Buhari, IGP over killing of traditional ruler

The people of Oruku Community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State have written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of their traditional ruler, late Igwe Emmanuel Chidiebere Mbah. South East Trust reports that in a letter signed by the counsel to Oruku Caretaker Committee, Barrister Okey Okoh, the community […]

The people of Oruku Community, Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State have written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the killing of their traditional ruler, late Igwe Emmanuel Chidiebere Mbah.

South East Trust reports that in a letter signed by the counsel to Oruku Caretaker Committee, Barrister Okey Okoh, the community members demanded justice for their assassinated traditional ruler, and prosecution of those connected to the murder.

The title of the petition is ‘Open Letter to The President And Commander-in-Chief of The Armed Forces of The Federal Republic of Nigeria on The Gruesome Murder of the Traditional Ruler of Oruku Community,  Igwe Emmanuel  Mbah’. 

The community in their petition expressed their fears and alleged  that some high ranking individuals may be compromising their quest for justice.

The counsel to the community, in the  letter  addressed to President Buhari, and copied to the Enugu State government as well as the Inspector General of Police, alleged that: “What is baffling the public, especially people of Enugu State, Oruku indigenes and the family of the murdered igwe in particular, remains that since December 2020, the known killer of HRH Igwe Emmanuel Mbah has not started facing orderly room trial much more being prosecuted in our regular Court”.

They wondered whether there was more to the incident than the eyes could see.

However, they appealed to  President Buhari to use his good offices  to direct that the Inspector General of Police expediently looked into the petition.

“That the Inspector General of Police automatically and by the directives of the president to investigate and prosecute the offending police officer and/or officers involved in the murder of HRH Igwe Emmanuel Chidiebere Mbah,” they said

They stressed that Justice delayed is Justice denied.