Pregnant Nigerian Housewife Demands Justice After Youth Leader, Vigilantes Allegedly Kill 5-Year-Old Son, Illegally Detain Husband In Imo.
The vigilantes were allegedly led by the youth president of the community identified as Amaze Chibuke, popularly called Jaguar.
Mrs. Jennifer Johnson, the pregnant housewife of a 33-year-old native doctor in the Obolo area of Mbano in Owerri, Imo State, Bright Johnson, has cried out over the alleged extrajudicial killing of her five-year-old son by vigilantes.
The vigilantes were allegedly led by the youth president of the community identified as Amaze Chibuke, popularly called Jaguar.
Mrs. Johnson, in her petition, addressed to the Director-General of the Department of State Servives (DSS) and the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, also accused the youth president of the community of ordering the shooting of her husband’s brother, Okechukwu Johnson and arrest of her husband, Bright Johnson, over undisclosed charges.
While speaking with journalists, Mrs Johnson claimed that Chibuke was involved in a land dispute with her husband.
She alleged that he invaded their home in company with unidentified youths armed with pump-action guns and ordered the shooting of her husband and his younger brother for resisting arrest.
She said, “My husband was shot in the leg and taken away to an undisclosed location for the last four days. His younger brother was shot in the back and my 5-year-old son was shot dead.”
Mrs. Johnson, who was in tears, told journalists that after much pressure from family members and her husband’s kinsmen, Chibuke claimed that her husband was detained at the DSS office located at Irete along Onitsha Road in Owerri, Imo State.
She said, “I’m calling on the DG, DSS and the IG of Police to wade into this matter and save my husband from the killer-squad of Amaze Chibuke popularly called Jaguar. The family have attempted to gain access to my husband several times but the DSS officials have refused. I want to know if my husband is still alive or not. He does not even know that his son has been shot dead.
“My husband is innocent. This is case of disputed family land that is being used to hunt my husband.”
She recalled that trouble started when some unidentified men on November 9, 2024 accosted her close to Amanaku market in Obolo while on her way back from an errand. She said the men ordered her into a car along with her five-year-old son while conducting a police raid.
She said, “When I entered, I noticed that there was a man already in the vehicle tied like a suspect. I was crying that I’m a married woman and innocent. They however started beating the man tied in the vehicle over his plea that they should let me and my son go.
“The three men in the vehicle were on mask and I feared that we have been kidnapped. But when they moved about 10 minutes, they stopped suddenly and asked us to go into the bush. They were being chased by eyewitnesses who observed how they pushed me into their vehicle.
“I was pleading that they should please allow me go. One of the masked men now ordered that we (the three of us – the man we met in the vehicle, my son and I) should be shot but another countered the order and said they should let us go.
“I held onto my son and ran off in the right, while the man ran the other way. On my way back home, the community people stopped me and asked me to come and identify the man that escaped from our abductor’s vehicle. I identified him as the person that was pushed out from the vehicle with us. But it seems they refused to agree.
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