#MySARSStory: The Cost of Mediation | Sahara Reporters

Chukwuma Ihezie tried to help a client solve an issue, a move that marked the beginning of the end of his life.

According to eyewitness accounts, when Osondu and Chukwuma got to the hotel on the day of the incident, January 12, 2014, Osondu went into the hotel to chat with some of his friends, including movie stars, who were in Enugu. Chukwuma waited patiently outside the hotel. Back at the hotel, Osondu's friends held him until some officers came. One of the officers, identified as Sergeant Dogo, shot Osondu. They also took him to the Independence Layout Police Station. While they were there, those who had arrested Chukwuma came in with him.

Bolu warned Chukwuma that his order wasn’t up for debate. But Chukwuma refused to sign the statement. The police officer who recounted the event to Chinedu said that Bolu brought out his pistol and shot Chukwuma in his legs four times. The nurse promised to treat Chukwuma at the SARS office. Chinedu spoke with her for a day. Subsequently, she stopped picking his phone calls.

Chinedu reached out to the Civil Liberty Organization which helped him write a petition on January 29, 2014 to the Commissioner of Police in Enugu, Ministry of Justice, National Human Rights Commission , Amnesty International, Sahara Reporters, among others. The Commissioner of Police told the family to unofficially retrieve Chukwuma’s corpse and bury him and forget about autopsy and justice. The family refused.

A three-man investigation team was sent to Enugu to investigate the matter. That was after the Enugu Police Commissioner refused to carry out any investigation. The NHRC wrote to the IG and Enugu state commissioner of police for a coroner inquest to be conducted on the matter. But, according to Chinedu, the police didn’t do that because they knew their officer, Felix Bolu, would be found culpable. “The police continue to shield him from coming to answer for what he did,” Chinedu says.

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