Aluu community demands monarch release
About
five days after the traditional ruler of Omuokiri Aluu, Alhaji Hassan
Walewa, was arrested by security agents, members of the community are
demanding his immediate release.Walewa was picked up by
the police two days after four students of the University of Port
Harcourt were lynched by a mob suspected to be some indigenes of the
community. In a statement signed by
the Chairman, Aluu Council of Chiefs, Chief Richard Kalu and Chairman,
Ogbakor Aluu, Mr. Emma Wawhor, the community urged security agents to
stop the harassment and mass arrest of innocent Aluu people.
Denying any involvement
in the killing of the four UNIPORT students, the community urged the
security agents to go for the actual perpetrators of the crime and bring
them to justice.
The community explained
that it could not understand the reason for the incarceration of the
traditional ruler, even as it pledged its cooperation to security
agencies investigating the circumstances behind the killing of the
students.
“The arrest has
buttressed the fact that no Aluu indigene was involved in the murder of
the four students of University of Port Harcourt except in the case of
the paramount ruler of the Omuokiri community, Chief Alhaji Hassan
Walewa, who was merely invited by the police in his capacity as
paramount ruler of the community where the act took place.
“But surprisingly, he
has been in detention of security agencies till date. The people of Aluu
clan cannot understand the reason for his continued incarceration.
“We hereby demand his
prompt release and urge the security agencies to stop further
harassment, mass arrest of innocent Aluu people and go for the actual
perpetrators of the crime and subsequently bring them to justice,” the
statement, which was read by the spokesman of Aluu, Mr. Garshon Benson,
said.
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