Nigeria: For the Apo Six, Justice Remains Elusive

12 December 2017

The decision of the Senate to investigate reports of the reinstatement into the police of a Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Danjuma Ibrahim, who was charged alongside others with the murder of six ‎Igbo traders in Abuja in 2005, despite an appeal against the High Court judgement that acquitted him, is a welcome development.

The Senate penultimate week put smiles on the faces of the families of six Igbo traders popularly called Apo Six who were murdered by some police officers in Abuja in 2005 when it directed its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate reports of the reinstatement into the police force of a Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Danjuma Ibrahim, who was charged with the murder of the traders.

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