A WRETCHED LIFE: WILL NIGERIA'S 'APO SIX' EVER GET JUSTICE?
The bodies belong to six young Nigerians killed by the police.
Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Ifeanyin Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Paulinus Ogbonna and Anthony
and Augustina Arebu were killed on 7 and 8 June, 2005.
"My friend was going to the bush, to go to the toilet, when he saw the police
digging a hole and preparing to bury some people", said Elvis Ozor,
younger brother of Ifeanyin.
The police tried to say they were armed robbers who had opened fire first.
But a judicial panel of inquiry set up by former President Olusegun Obasanjo
rejected the police's story and the government apologised on behalf of the
police for their killings.
The government paid $20,300 (£13,800) compensation to each of the families.
It recommended the officers be arrested and face a criminal trial.
But nearly four years since the night the Apo Six were killed, the trial has got
nowhere.
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