Man accuses police of hunting sisters son unjustly

Olajide Ademola, Lagos

A Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Chukwudi Nnadozie has accused the police of unjustly targeting his nephew for incarceration.

Nnadozie told journalists that trouble started after the police arrested Mr Dumokeke Pascal over his membership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

He said the nephew managed to escape and ran to his house in Lagos, but lamented that the police still trailed him to Lagos and were desperate to clamp him in detention.

According to him, “the only sin my nephew committed is that he was among those agitating for the independence of defunct Biafra republic, he is not a criminal but a freedom fighter.

“He ran away from Anambra to Lagos after they arrested him in Ebonyi State.

“I got him a job when he got here, but a few weeks later the police stormed his workplace and wanted to abduct him back to Anambra.”

While urging the police to stop what he called unnecessary harassment of his nephew, Nnadozie stated that, “the injustice and hunting for Igbos has to stop.

Ever since the civil war ended, Igbos of the South-East Nigeria have been facing too much persecution.

“My late in-laws house was set ablaze the night they raided the house while looking for my nephew; as we speak, they are homeless, and my sister still traumatized. Now, they are still after her son.

“He had to run away from the country because here became so unsafe for him.

“I’m calling on the human rights organisations and the world at large to come to our aid,” he stated.