Ejiofor may not know that the police could charge a person falsely

Since the day 13th Dec 2018, EJIOFOR appeared in court for David Aiyedogbon and the Nigerian Police in the murder and armed robbery charges against Emeka Ugwuonye as a nominal lawyer, I concluded that either Ejiofor  did not know that an innocent person could be charged falsely by the Nigerian Police or he was there simply for the ‘pay’

I’m not happy writing this because i don’t want to appear as if i’m writing because Ejiofor  is in trouble. No!  What happened to my namesake; Ifeanyi Ejiofor or Emeka Ugwuonye can happen to any person in Nigeria. Nigeria is a country built on injustice and corruption. Nigerian Police can wake up one morning and rope you into a crime and from there, you struggle to save your life. Look at Emeka Ugwuonye,  the Nigerian Police felt threatened by Ugwuonye’s constant criticism of their approaches to Charity Aiyedogbon’s disappearance/murder case and his efforts in exposing the atrocities in abattoir, the police turn round and rope him into a murder case he has been working on since 2016 as a human rights activist.

I am not only surprised but worried that EJIOFOR could play the role he played. If we are fighting to have a country where Police will not rope innocent people into crimes then we should have good conscience. If EJIOFOR appeared for David Aiyedogbon and the Police and left, that would have been a different issue, but he went ahead to address the press and explained why the Police were right to have charged Emeka Ugwuonye with murder and armed robbery and explained why  Ugwuonye may have committed the crime since in his Facebook posts, he explained in detail how the murder was carried out. I was in tears after listening to EJIOFOR justified what even a novice could see as a clear case of impunity.

The people fighting Ugwuonye celebrated EJIOFOR’s appearance in court and circulated the interview granted by EJIOFOR widely, where he convicted Ugwuonye even before the case commenced. The women praised EJIOFOR and even hugged him in turns. Now look at it, the police accused him of being a kidnapper etc just to get at him and the matter escalated, people got killed. Should people continue to die in Nigeria because the police want to rope one person into crime? This is what we should all join hands together to fight.

We should be careful what we support because karma has a way of bringing such things back to us. No doubt, there is too much power in the hands of the Nigerian police. Our effort is to make sure they don’t use the power wrongly.  Allowing them to use the power carelessly is like allowing a drunk with a gun. Either he injure others or he injure himself or both. The reason we are in this decay is because we placed money and material gratifications above morality.

Ifeanyi Calistus

Director of Information

DPA