The Killings In Abia: Why Gov. T.A Orji Won’t Be Trusted

One Kenneth Nwosu, until 'they' shot him on July 9 this year, was the Commissioner for Agriculture Abia State. He was shot by yet to be identified gunman or gunwoman or gunmen or gunwomen in the Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji's Abia State and, he died later.

Playing politics where it is unnecessary, the governor later vowed that his government would apply every means necessary in making sure that the killer(s) was brought to book and face the long arm of the law.

The irony of the governor's statement was when he said that there would be no hiding place for the killers. Perhaps, he forgot that his government was unable to protect the citizens and the killer(s) invaded Nwosu. But here was Orji saying that there would be no hiding place for the gangster(s).

Gov. T.A Orji was still making claims of how his government combated kidnappers in the state in 2010, whereas in the real sense, it was the federal might that descended on insurrectionary in the Osisikankwu's ring and destabilize the ring of the charlatans.

The governor was talking about how his government had destabilized kidnappers, whereas many people were recently being kidnapped and killed in the state.

According to The City Reporters: The spate of kidnappings recently going on in Abia State have shown no sign of abating as the State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Chief Sunny Nwakodo, was reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen as he was driving to his village, in Umuahia, the State capital.

The source went further: The Chief Executive Officer of Apples Fast Food, Mr. Felix Udensi Okwuobasi, was abducted in front of his resident and was found dead just two weeks after another businessman (name withhold) was also kidnapped in the same manner.

In his customary unreliable manner, Gov. Orji had said about the Kenneth Nwosu thus: 'We are determined to give the killers a fight; Abia must be free for all to live and do business', whereas the world could see that his government and him were unable to provide security in the state to evade the mobster(s) from striking in the first place.

It is pertinent to say that the serial killer(s) may not be too far from the state and the government is paying just lip service to the whole menace that can be seen is about to becloud our people. It may also be observed that the seemingly killer(s) strikes whenever the victim challenged the government in Abia State.

Nigerians know about the ill-fate that befell one John Ndubuka in February this in which the governor's son, Chinedu, was seriously fingered as the one who ordered his police orderly to shoot Ndubuka who was said happened to be his Personal Assistant (PA) until his death.

While Nigerians were told that police had swooped into action to investigate the matter, the government of Abia State quickly exonerated the son of the governor from all the implications that were in the media against him about the death.

The government did not allow the police to complete the investigation; Ndubuka was hurriedly buried amidst hues and cries by well-meaning Nigerians. The government of Orji in its tragic ways of announcing that it would get the killer(s) of the young man to book, is yet to tell us who the marauder(s) was.

Since the ugly incident, anybody that writes about the death of Ndubuka asking why the killer(s) has not been brought to book, you see the attack dogs of the government coming after the person in the media with their misleading stories that many informed people have stopped to read or discuss in the public, because they have known that the government in Abia State is one that operates on deceit and falsehood and blame game.

What we were reading in the far lands is now happening in our state. Many states are replicating good economies to better the lots of their people, but this is not the case with Gov. T.A Orji's Abia State, where anyone who says what the government does not want to hear - truth - the person's head is called for.

But there is no how truth can break no matter how it is bent. Other states are emulating advanced economies, but the Abia State Government is hinged on the activities of the mask people who may be one's next neighbour and calls for the person's head as soon as the person challenges the government in Abia State.

We do not have security in all ramifications in Abia State; the worst is that the economy's security is a story for another day. Violence in the democracy in Abia State, in the current dispensation, is uncalled for and alarming.

The government in Umuahia has refused to understand that security is such a defining important thing for the socio-eco growth of the state. Why Gov. T.A Orji cannot be trusted in everything positive in Abia State and the issues surrounding the death of Kenneth Nwosu was again that Chidi Nwosu, a human rights activist and campaigner for democracy in the state, was brutally murdered in his home, Ameke Abam, in Abia State, by yet to be identified killer(s) on December 29 2010. Gov. T.A Orji and his government immediately told the world that the perpetrator(s) must be brought to book, but to no avail nearly four years after.

Odimegwu Onwumere, a Poet/Writer, writes from Rivers State.

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