Sanusi's Problems Seems To Be Heading For The Worse! 1995 Beheading of Gideon Akaluka: Group To Drag Sanusi To National Conference

Prince Lamido Sanusi

In search of justice, a group, Council For Eastern Justice, CFEJ, has initiated moves to drag embattled Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to the National conference over the beheading of Gideon Akaluka, an Igbo trader in 1995, and other killings of people of Igbo extraction.

Akaluka, a young Igbo trader, allegedly desecrated the Koran. He was arrested after his wife allegedly used pages of the Koran as toilet paper for her baby. After the police locked him up, a group of Muslim fundamentalists broke into the police station cells, beheaded Akaluka, and paraded his bodiless head around the streets of Kano.

Sanusi, and eight others were arrested and locked up for the crime, on the orders of the then Head of State, General Sani Abacha. Investigation by the authorities revealed that Sanusi was the kingpin of the murderous gang.

CFEJ said through its spokes person, Chief Sylvanus Emeka Okeke said the intention is to draw attention to the series of unresolved killings of Igbos in the North and to seek for justice. “We are doing this to draw the attention of the unresolved and the continuous killings of Igbos in the North under the watchful eyes of Northern Leaders.”

According to him, “Akaluka was beheaded in 1995, several other Igbos have been killed in the North and no one seem to have been punished for such dastardly act. This cannot continue to happen if we really want to live as one in this country.”

“We want to know what Sanusi knows about the killing and if there are those who knew about it still alive today. We want justice for Akaluka and others and we want the wanton killings of Igbos to stop,” Okeke Said. The group said it is sending a petition to the South East Delegates at the on-going National Conference. Extract from pointblanknews,com