Occupants of Ogbete-Mgboji Community in Eha-Amufu, Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State have blamed the Divisional Police Officer for Ikem Police Station, one Nwachukwu, of bringing in cash from the cadavers of individuals killed by Fulani herders.
SaharaReporters had covered Wednesday that the thought Fulani herders killed five individuals and terminated 14 homestead settlements where north of 3,000 occupants where residing.
Some people group pioneers, who addressed SaharaReporters, asserted that the police and ther security organizations neglected to answer trouble calls while the attacking furnished herders went after them, yet just appeared after the assaults to gather the assortments of those killed.
They claimed that when the relations of the departed needed to cover the bodies, the DPO Nwachukwu demanded and strongly conveyed the cadavers to the morgue, stored them and began requesting cash from the uprooted occupants.
They expressed that since January, in excess of 16 individuals had been killed by the Fulani state army with many houses and property annihilated, while no security staff came to mediate.
One of the local area pioneers, Chief Odo Egah, who talked with SaharaReporters, said the security organizations had every single deserted them. See Also
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He said, “The main thing the DPO did was to come and convey the carcasses; in any event, when the groups of the cadaver let him know that they would have rather not saved the bodies in the morgue; give us the carcasses to cover; he denied and conveyed it to funeral home. On Tuesday when they were shooting, we called him that they had killed two individuals and, he let us know that he wouldn’t come; that he was going to where someone was captured.
“He will constantly demand that except if the police official approves for anybody to be covered, he won’t deliver the carcass. You don’t come to save life however when the individual kicks the bucket; in any event, when the proprietors of the cadavers are imploring you to permit them to cover them, you will reject and convey it go to funeral home.”
Making sense of that the spurring drive of the DPO was to take bodies to store in the morgue was for the departed families to come and give him cash, the source added, “He will proceed to store the cadaver in the funeral home, individuals who are frantically getting away, who don’t have what to eat, they will be going to the morgue to pay to gather perished relations to cover. It is really awful.”
“Our most serious issue presently is that the DPO in Ikem that would rather not discharge the assemblages of individuals killed to the local area put their cadaver in the funeral home and you are advising them to pay cash prior to going to the mortuary to gather and cover.”
Endeavors to get the response of the Enugu State Police Command were fruitless as the representative, Daniel Ndukwe, couldn’t be arrived at on phone as of the hour of detailing.