Aninri in crisis as community leaders invade natives’ homes, beat elders to a pulp
Whether or not a community leader has the rights to torture elderly women to tears, to order invasion of their private homes, and to set rural tenets above court orders are now new debates in Amagu community.
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InfoWars has been reporting the escalating internal crisis rocking the small autonomous village since 18 months. At the head of it sits the President General Comr Christian Onyeabor (a.k.a Udengene).
Yesterday, it took new twists when youths, most of whom armed, invaded private homes of five elderly women of Uhuagu part of the community, and beat them to a pulp. They seized two big GP tanks, while some allegedly used the opportunity to steal valuable properties belonging to the victims, including unspecified amount of money believed to run into hundreds of thousands of naira.
The youths were led by the chairman of Uhuagu Mr Samuel Onyeabor, who reportedly acted on direct order of the President General, multiple sources revealed. The victims include Mrs Ovili Beatrice, Mrs Theresa Ekwe, Mrs Eucharia Orji, Mrs Maria Chukwu and Mrs Nwannediya Ibekwe.
This is not the first time natives of the community were being attacked. Its also not the first time violence and arson were sponsored by the administration, insider sources told InfoWars.
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Last week a youth, popularly known as 50 Cent, said in a viral video that Udengene ordered thugs to go after him with guns after also beating him near to coma. In 2024, few weeks before Udengene was selected as the President General, former PG Mr Emmanuel Okoro was kidnapped in his Amagu residence under controversial circumstances that pointedly indicted local cabals, the same people who enthroned Udengene. Days before he was snatched, influential members of the community had called Mr Okoro and directed that certain guns and ammunition be submitted to his care. The errand was carried through a certain man, a well known sycophant from Amagu-Ani ward.
Two days later the same man took gunmen to the former PG’s house at the cold hours of the night. Okoro was beaten almost to death before the assailants took him and the guns away. He was rescued from the kidnappers a week later. But before then, they had used his ATM card and withdrew all his money – ₦7.04 million. Today, Mr Emmanuel Okoro is a poor farmer in the village, having fallen overnight from affluence as former Aninri chairman of patent medical store owners.
At the same period, former youths leader and ardent supporter of PG Emmanuel Okoro, Mr Augustine Uwanekwu, was also marked for death. Masked gunmen attacked him in his sleep and left him half-dead.
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Mr Emmanuel Okoro was the only major challenger to Udengene’s bid to the post of President General in 2024. The local cabals plotted against him, stripped him of fund, weakened his support bases, and then made Udengene PG – unopposed. Until today no one has been able to link Mr Uwanekwu and Okoro’s ordeals to anyone. But then, there has not been any investigation at all, the nonchalant detachment that further fuels speculation of insiders’ collusion.
From day one Udengene has ruled the community with iron fists, brutally silencing opposing voices in a manner of repression that shocks the conscience of any decent person. On Saturday, number of Amagu youths were on the run. The administration, having repeatedly accused them of dealing on hard drugs and of carrying out criminal activities, is working tirelessly to take on them using various drug agencies.
“Monday nwa Elo (Udengene) is a local Hitler. Its only when he killed all of us that he can do whatever he like in Amagu”, Mrs Chinwe Nwankwo said in local dialect.
The five elderly women victims’ case is the latest in the ongoing violent crackdown in Amagu community as the PG struggles, in vain, to free himself from grips of Amagu Concerned Indigenes, a rising pressure group that insists on a responsible governance. According to the document obtained by InfoWars, the subject matter for which the women were harassed has been in the High Court.
The Uhuagu chairman, a good man, and his youth leader Mr Azoribe, are not the leaders of the ward for real, a source said. Udengene is the defacto chairman of Uhuagu, openly dictating for everyone, and clandestinely enforcing menace without pity. It now remains to be seen how the chairman, Mr Samuel Onyeabor’s public image would look like after allowing himself to be used for such an deliberate disservice.
InfoWars has reached the Town Union’s youths leader Mr Ifeanyi Iyoke for comments.
Also, the Amagu Concerned Indigenes is yet to reply. But a native who pleaded anonymity said “the time is now when higher authorities must help us to define the reach of a PG’s powers”, referring to coming petitions to the Enugu State Ministry of Chieftaincy Matters and Rural Development.
“Isn’t it far better that this autonomous (Amagu) be dissolved and we merged with Ameke or Amokwe instead of this unending wickedness?” the source said. Amagu is the smallest village in Oduma that is autonomous.
Its indeed a trying times for the Ikenga Oduma as Cmr Udengene appears unfazed at the complaints of his so many atrocities, while adamantly and proudly presiding over the darkest days in Amagu long history.
