I watched with so much horror how Prophet Chukwuemeka Ohanemere Odumeje, the self-acclaimed liquid metal, and Holy Ghost indabosky was thoroughly beaten by security forces while they are demolishing his church building in Onitsha, Anambra state today.
According to an eyewitness report, he (Odumeje) tried to resist the security forces working under the command of the Anambra state government from demolishing his church building and they all descended on him, thoroughly rough-handled him, brutalized him, and even tore his clothes while they are dragging him around like a common thief who stole in the village market square.
The church, Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention and Deliverance Ministry, belonging to Odumeje was demolished by members of the state task force set up by the Anambra state government charged to demolish buildings that have been marked up for demolition and the owners of the building refused to vacate the structure.
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In an official statement of the governor of Anambra state through his spokesperson Christian Aburime, on why the state government demolished the church building of Prophet Odumeje, the Governor stated that the prophet and owners of other buildings marked for demolition failed to comply with the government’s directive to remove the structures as they were all still in occupation of the buildings and making use of it against the directives of the state government.
The governor said the church building and other structures marked for demolition were illegal structures built along the waterway blocking the drainage systems.
Hence, Following the expiration of the more than two months’ notice, beginning from April 2022, served on developers and building owners who built several illegal structures along the waterway in Fegge and environs within Onitsha, Anambra State Government has begun the demolition of such structures and unfortunately, the Mountain of Holy Ghost and Intervention Ministry, the church of Prophet Odumeje happened to be one of such buildings.
While the government may have acted rightly and legally justified for demolishing the church building of Prophet Indaboski and other illegal structures, it must be stated categorically and unequivocally that the manner in which the state task force descended heavily with arms on an unarmed civilian is totally uncalled for and should be frowned upon and condemned by all and sundry and the state government should take active steps in punishing those security agents that was seen beating and dragging Odumeje as shown in the video circulating in social media spaces.
We can’t stop shouting that Nigeria’s security forces are one of the most unprofessional sets of individuals; power-drunk touts with arms and government backings, they lack discipline and indiscretion, and they are always eager to show off their use of force power on unarmed citizens.
Security agents should never be this uncivilized in a civilized society and this is a call to the Anambra state government to not encourage abuse of power and must publicly punish those security agents. It does not matter that they are working under the command of the state government, their mode of operations is totally condemned and should be publicly disassociated from the government of Anambra state.
