NIGERIANS and the police officers alleged to have extra judicially killed six Apo traders of Igbo extraction in June, 2005 will have to wait further till March 9 to know the final judgment in the matter.
Six police officers Danjuma Ibrahim; Othman Abdulsalami (now at large); Nicholas Zakaria; Ezekiel Acheneje; Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami were alleged to have murdered the traders, who have since been described as ‘Apo Six’.
Five of them were charged by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation with culpable homicide of killing Ifeanyi Ozor; Chinedu Meniru; Isaac Ekene; Paulinus Ogbonna; Anthony Nwokedike and Augustina Arebun.
They victims, who were between the ages of 21 and 25 years as of the time they were allegedly killed on the order of Danjuma Ibrahim, who was an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), were coming from a night party that fateful day.
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