The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a non-governmental organization based in Benin City, has called on the police to set free, unconditionally, its Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor.
The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), a non-governmental organization based in Benin City, has called on the police to set free, unconditionally, its Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor.
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In a statement signed by Policy Officer Innocent Edemhanrhia, ANEEJ said that a media report credited to the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, that the police have good grounds for the continued detention of Rev. Ugolor was unfortunate, baseless and lacking in truth.
“We maintain that Rev. David Ugolor is innocent of this wicked allegation and God has already started to vindicate him with the detailed investigation done by the State Security Service, which revealed the self-confessed killers of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde,” the statement said. “On the day the SSS paraded the suspects, the investigators and robbers revealed to the whole world that it was a robbery incident that went awry and displayed several items belonging to Comrade Olaitan and members of his household that were recovered from the robbers.”
He stressed that Mba's statement that Rev. Ugolor is the sponsor of the alleged murder is not new from the police, describing it as “nothing short of a well orchestrated frame up of an innocent activist by government using one sickly inmate who knows nothing about David Ugolor to attempt to smear his character, personality and image he has laboured to build all his life.”
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Mr. Edemhanrhia underlined that the paraded self-confessed robbers told the world that they do not know Rev. Ugolor and were not hired by anybody to carry out their dastardly act, and that only the police detaining him unlawfully know the mystery man who is mentioning Rev. Ugolor’s name.
“We consider his continued detention as inhuman, barbaric, illegal and unlawful and an act already tarnishing the image of Nigeria in the eyes of the international community and serious minded nations of the world,” he said.
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