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On Tuesday, it clocked exactly 16 years after five young traders at the Apo auto-parts market in Abuja and a fiancee of one of the traders were extrajudicially murdered by armed police officers in the federal capital territory, FCT.
The victims, who were said to be between 21 and 25 years of age, were Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Anthony Nwokike, Paulinus Ogbonna, Ekene Isaac Mgbe and, Augustina Arebu. They were later popularly referred to as “Apo Six.”
For the umpteenth time, members of the victims’ families, their friends and business partners, once again, gathered at the scene of the dastardly act on Tuesday to honour the memory of the deceased and reiterate their fresh demands for justice and compensation.
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Apo Six: FG yet to pay burial expenses 15 Years after, lawyer tells NHRC panel
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By Tordue Salem – Abuja
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Amobi Nzelu on Wednesday pleaded with the Independent Investigative Panel on the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS), to revisit the case of Apo six where young traders were alleged to have been extra-judicially killed by some police officer on the 8th of June 2005, and get the Federal government to pay their families, burial expenses.
Nzelu, counsel to the complainants, (Mr. Elvis Ozor and Edwin Meniru) on behalf of Ifeanyi Ozor and five other (now deceased) informed the IIP-SARS Panel, that the order of the then panel led by Justice Olasunbo Goodluck which directed that N500, 000 naira be paid to each of the deceased family for burial expenses was yet to be obeyed by the federal government.
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