It was a sorrowful Easter for Abaomege community, Onicha LGA of Ebonyi State as youthful and promising child of the community met his unfavorable death in police custody.
The kid Kelechi Gabriel Ineke, child of His Royal Highness Eze Gabriel Ineke, king of Abaomege community was on Wednesday 28th March 2018 arrested over a figfig with the child of a police officer identified as Umet.
As indicated by the sibling of the deceased Prince Nnamdi Ineke, when asked, he said that is his younger brother, was said to have fought with a police man's child of a same age. The police officer's child left the scene of the fight just to return with his dad who is an officer serving in Abaomege to arrest the young prince.
The prince believes that his younger sibling was arrested with no alternative of bail and locked up with no kind of questioning or interrogations as respects his purpose behind arrest. In his words as indicated by source:
"When we, the family members got there, they said we should go and come back the next day refusing us to see, feed or bail him. The next day they refused us to see, bail or give him food again. Three days of his being in custody he was not allowed to see his siblings or receive food or water from them. We were asked on the fourth day to come the next day with ten thousand naira bailout fee"
According to available information, different detainees had pre informed the Prince that all may not be well with his younger brother, as he had spent the entire night moaning and shouting out for help which never came as the men on duty overlooked the young Prince call for help.
"We called on the police officers on duty to know what is wrong with him and if the young man was having problem but they ignored us and since today we have not heard from him"the inmates said."
The detainees though in a separate cell believe he was tortured and starved to death in the custody with a rope in his neck as if he committed suicide.
Mr Nnamdi revealed to that on the fifth day he went to the police headquarters to bail his younger brother, only to meet him dead. As per source, he said:
"I went to the police station with the ten thousand naira (10,000) to bail him as requested by the police, the police officers at the counter told me to wait that the DCO is on his way to the station. I waited a while, when he arrived, he went straight to the cell with one of his boys on duty directing me not to come with them. I stood back only for him to walk out quickly, wispered into the ears of the officers at the counter".Before Nnamdi acknowledge it the DCO entered his car and zoomed off. His activity made the young man suspicious as he rapidly went into the cell where his sibling was kept In disconnection just to discover him holding tight the rooftop dead with a rope fixing to his neck. The rest officer left the station before he could turn out from the cell.
"I quickly rushed out to ask the police officers on duty but they had all disappeared" he said.
In favor of the police, the DCO in charge of the police division was quoted claiming that the young prince committed suicide in the cell
Recall that the Prince was kept in Isolated cell like a hardened criminal. Now the questions begging for answers now are:
why was the prince put in a separate cell? What was a rope doing in a police cell? What was happening to him as at the time he was calling for help?
The people of Abaomege as at this moment believe that there is more to these that meets the eye.
According to reports, a youth from the community who is known as pastor said, they did not even fight physically,
"it was just quarrel and threats. The boy went and called his father to arrest the prince"
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