A video footage is currently circulating online showing how a 25-year old Fulani kidnap kingpin identified as Ibrahim Umar, was being hailed by police officers as he stunned them by assembling an AK-47 rifle withing minutes.
This is because nobody has come to claim his body.
Orji died after 13 years of awaiting trial in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos, and his body was deposited at the Isolo General Hospital mortuary.
An authoritative source at the hospital, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Sunday Sun that Orji’s body was brought to the hospital by prison officials.
However, since then, neither the family members nor the prison officials have come to check on it.
The source said the hospital authorities have been waiting for whoever would take responsibility for the corpse.
He told Sunday Sun that there had been similar cases where family members refused to claim their dead ones and after a period the hospital management procured necessary documents from the law courts, Ministry of Health and other relevant authorities to bury the abandoned corpses.
The source said: “But in the case of Clifford Orji, our hands are tied. We are patiently waiting to see what the government would do because, as it is, nobody is willing to claim the body.”
The senior official said though the hospital has symbiotic relationship with the Prisons and the Police, it would not have accepted the body of such a controversial person.
However, when contacted, a senior management member of the Prisons, who did not want his name in print, said the Nigerian Prisons Service did not do anything wrong by depositing Orji’s body in the government hospital.
The prisons official said: “The police charged Orji to court and the court in question gave us Clifford Orji to keep for the government, which we did for 13 consecutive years.
“When he eventually died, we could not have buried him.
“So we have to give it to the government hospital to keep for the government.”
He confirmed that during the 13 years the late Orji was in prison custody awaiting trial, nobody came to identify with him.
The prisons official also told Sunday Sun that with his death, the prisons had washed its hand off Orji’s case.
It would be recalled that Orji died three weeks ago after a brief illness.
He gained national attention following allegation that he killed and ate human beings and sold their parts to ritual killers.
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In the trending footage, the young criminal who is currently in custody – can be seen assembling the gun as he was cheered by police officers at the station.
He equally disclosed that he hunts and kills soldiers to get their arms and uniforms for operations whenever he was in need of the items. What stands Umar’s kidnap gang out among many others across the country is that it kills the victims even after collecting ransom from their families.
Gulak said: “It has now dawned on everybody that we cannot continue to sustain this subsidy.”
Gulak stated this in Abuja when he received in audience members of the Initiative for Diaspora Knowledge Transfer (IDKT), led by its Chairman and Global Coordinator, Prince Chidi Ibe, who said the modules developed by IDKT is capable of changing a lot of misconceptions about the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
Gulak said Ibe has been part of the journey of Jonathan’s presidency since 2010 when the project of Goodluck Jonathan was started and subsequently, Goodluck/Sambo.
He said: “Mr. President is hungry for development,” adding: “That is the more reason Mr. President has always said that it is better for Nigeria as a country to deploy our resources to productive sector, rather than consumption.”
Gulak further said: “Take for instance, in January, Mr. President said we have to do away with this fuel subsidy of a thing and most people did not take it the way we saw it and there was a protest all over the country.”
He said it has now dawned on everybody that the country cannot continue to sustain the subsidy regime, which forces Nigeria to continue to spend over N1 trillion on consumption.
He added that if the country had been deploying the resources to productive sectors such as agriculture “where youths will be employed, like railway system where they will have the cheapest mode of transportation, like our public works, it will be better for this country than subsidizing petrol consumption that will be available to a section of the community.”
Gulak promised to look into the modules earlier presented by Ibe and his team, especially the trade and agricultural aspect, where Ibe spoke about the cluster.
He said he would refer Ibe to the appropriate Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs) to see what the government can tap from Ibe’s knowledge.
Speaking with Saturday Sun, Ibe said his purpose of visiting the Office of the Political Adviser to the President was to tell the government that IDKT has quick-fix projects that the government could adopt to show it is working.
Ibe said: “The modules are things that are also job-creating, job-oriented modules that we have. We want the political office to push it to the administration to come up with quick-fix projects that the people will really appreciate.”
While saying that his initiative was hinged on transformation, Ibe further said: “We believe that you can’t leave everything to government to do. So, we bring our own ideas to support the government so that the government can tap knowledge from what has happened in other economies so that the government will be able to further their own development.”
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via: INFORMATION NIGERIA
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