Fresh protests rock Aninri as SWAT operatives kill chief priest (VIDEO)
Right now, internal crisis is rocking yet another community in Aninri local government area. The people of Amaeze are mourning, and have vowed revenge.
According to sources privy to the situation, a chief priest of Ngwu shrine, one Mr Donatus Ugorji has died in SWAT custody. He was arrested by the Special Weapons and Arms Tactical team last week. The officers allegedly tortured him to near death before whisking him away to custody where they finally killed him in cold blood.
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For the past four days, Amaeze community has been protesting on the major roads and inside the community for the circumstances around the the chief priest’s murder are controversial. According to sources, one Mr Samson Ugorji, a native doctor, together with other native doctors in Amaeze plotted the killing.
“Late Donatus Ugorji was a good man. He was a chief priest of Ngwu. Like you know my son (InfoWars editor) the spirit of Ngwu chooses whosoever it wants to choose. He chose Donatus Ugorji. Amaeze liked it, Amaeze loved him.
“But evil people, the native doctors hated him. Now, they’ve plotted and killed him”, Chief Cyril Nwonu rolled back tears as he narrated the ugly incident yesterday.
The chairman of Aninri local government area Prince Ugochukwu Nwanjoku visited number of protest grounds in Amaeze yesterday. According to his media office, the chairman urged for calm while promising that justice must be served.
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The conspirators made SWAT to take late Ugorji for operating spiritism without licence, Aninri official media reported.
Governor Peter Mbah sent “Maintenance of Internal Security, Vigilance, and Order” bill to the House of Assembly early June 2025. It sought, among other things, to criminalize unlicensed operations of spiritism of any form.
Specifically, Section 3(1) of the proposed bill states: “Every person who engages in the practice or rendering of spiritual services within the state, whether as a native doctor, herbalist, spiritualist, chief priest, diviner, seer, or by any other traditional or spiritual title or designation, shall be registered with the ministry, department, or agency (MDA) of the state as may be designated by the Governor for that purpose.”
Any spiritist who is caught operating without licence faces fine of between ₦1 million and ₦5 million or 10 years imprisonment, or both, the bill further stated.
Although the bill stipulates other strident rules aimed at curbing insecurity in Enugu State, none of its sections recommend torture or extra-judicial killing like the one meted on Ngwu priest.
Amaeze is boiling in anger. Both those in the rural area and Amaeze diaspora has all condemned the incidence. The families of the conspirators, who are now at large, now stand face-to-face with hell as villagers refuse them of sleep with nonstop war cries.
But whether or not the promised justice from the government will come is another thing. Amaeze could either take laws into their hands now or risk division that would soon fracture and puncture their resolve.
A small, remote village sitting deep inside Ndumeze ancient kingdom and borders Nkerefi in Nkanu West council area, Amaeze is powerful and dangerously spiritual. In ancient times, it’s people – mighty in battle, and famous for valour – won several wars to Oduma’s glory.