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...For a better society... Friday, August 13 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Foreign News Fashion Metro Sports Features Columnists View from America Business Money/Market Maritime Aviation Motoring Rail/Road Okija shrines were 419 tools — Anambra govt ANAMBRA State Government yesterday described the Okija shrines in Ihiala council area as "veritable tools of fraud, 419." It also acquired the vast expanse of forest land where the Ogwugwu Akpu and Ogwugwu Isiala shrines are located for various development projects. Governor Chris Ngige disclosed these in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Mr. Fred Chukwuelobe. The government said its acquisition of the land housing the shrines "represents a loss" of one of the fraudulent mechanisms through which some unnamed people had held sway in the state in particular and Igboland generally. People, it noted, had .over the years allegedly manipulated "faint-hearted and ignorant members of the various communities in the state and Igboland in general as can be evidenced by the tango between Hon. Chuma Nzeribe and the late Chief Victor Okafor, alias Ezego, in 1997." No details of the alleged tango were given. "The Government of Anambra State sees the development (recovery of skulls and corpses from the Okija shrines) as a good riddance to bad rubbish and at the appropriate time government will come out with a proposal for acquisition of the said large expanse of forest land which the shrines had occupied for various government projects," the statement said. At the first raid on the shrines penultimate Wednesday, a police team recovered 50 corpses, some fresh and 20 skulls, which sparked off shocking reactions from across the country. The development and subsequent discovery of more shrines saw Force Headquarters, Abuja last Wednesday deploying about 200 mobile policemen to the shrines while the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) took over investigations into the matter. Police authorities said so far, 32 persons had been arrested in connection with the items recovered at the shrines with some of the suspects identified as top politicians. However, a man claiming to be Chief Chukwumezie Igwe, the informant whose petition led to the storming of the shrines by the police, petitioned Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Tafa Balogun, on alleged threats to his life. According to his letter, dated August 9 this year, "I have been receiving threat letters and strange telephone calls from different quarters." � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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