Charly Boy's
cousin, Emeka Aseme, a business tycoon and a hotelier was forcefully taken away
by gun wielding men during one of his visits to his 5-Star hotel in Oguta, Imo state on 24th
February. Aseme's family managed to contact the abductors who demanded N8m
ransom, which the family paid but Emeka was not released to them. On the 9th of
March, the men who took the hotelier contacted his younger brother and directed
him to go to a community between Owerri and Oguta called Okwonji, to find him
brother. Emeka's decomposed body was found in a bush path, with his sexual
organ , eyes and the heart plucked out.
Meanwhile, about five suspected hired
assassins have been
arrested in connection with the incident. This has twisted the
suspicion of many people who had earlier thought that the killers were
kidnappers.
Also one of the killers allegedly
sustained serious injuries during the shootout with the three policemen who
were manning Emeka’s hotel in Oguta. The three policemen were all killed. The
injured kidnapper who ran to a hospital in Port Harcourt was requested to
present his military identity card before treatment,
since he went to the hospital on a military uniform. Unable to provide any
proof that he was a military man, the police were invited, leading to his
arrest. Five of the killers have already been arrested, and police
investigations have revealed that the supposed kidnappers were actually hired
assassins.
Charly Boy reacted to his cousin's
gruesome killing, saying:
"I have never seen a thing like this since I grew up in Oguta. This
is extreme barbarism. How can a man be so callous to his fellow man to the
extent of removing different parts of his body until he finally gave up? This
is unheard of. What is this country turning to? What era is this? As far
as I know, no evil doer will go unpunished. Every evil committed by man to man
must surely be redressed, if not now, certainly later, if not by man, then by
God, for the victory of evil over good is temporary. We are waiting for the
outcome of police investigation. After then, we will take the campaign to
Oguta. We must agitate for peace. The peace that has eluded us must be
returned. We are not known for this.”
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