BREAKING: Court Disbands Ebubeagu Security Outfit, Gives Reason

BREAKING: Court Disbands Ebubeagu Security Outfit, Gives Reason

  • The southeast security outfit popularly known as Ebubeagu has been disbanded in Ebonyi state by the e Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki
  • The court disbanded the security outfit based on reports of human rights abuses, extortion and illegal arrests by its operatives
  • Meanwhile, a group of the indigenes of Ebonyi state had earlier called for the disbandment of the state security agency

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Abakaliki, Ebonyi state - The Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki on Tuesday, February 14, disbanded the southeast security outfit Ebubeagu in Ebonyi State, according to The Punch.

According to the court, the disbandment of the security outfit was as a result of human rights abuses, extortions, illegal arrests and the use of firearms, Vanguard also reported.

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The Federal High Court reportedly disbanded the Ebubeagu security outfit over human rights abuses. Photo credit: Francis Nwaze
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Disband Ebubeagu, Ebonyi indigenes tell poll commissioner

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that the Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural In the Diaspora (AEISCID) asked the newly deployed commissioner of police in Ebonyi state, Faleye Olaleye, to remain professional in character and conduct as a thoroughbred officer with track records of integrity.

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CP Faleye Olaleye, posted from Osun state has served in several states of the federation including Ebonyi state where he rose from the position of an Area Commander to Officer-In-Charge of Operations (OC-Ops) at the State Command Headquarters between 2014 and 2015.

In a statement signed Tuesday by the group's President General, Ambassador Pascal Oluchchukwu, urged the Iyin-Ekiti-born Police Commissioner to immediately get to work by not only disbanding "the Ebubeagu terror squad" but setting up a special task force from within the Command to recover the arms and ammunitions stockpiled in the state for the purposes of the forthcoming general elections.

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Gunmen burn Ebubeagu commander's house, kill wife in Ebonyi

In another report, gunmen in the early hours of Sunday, January 1, 2023, killed the wife of Oyeku Chima, commander of the Ebube Agu security outfit in Afikpo South LGA of Ebonyi state.

Chris Anyanwu, the police spokesperson in the state, confirmed the development to journalists in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital.

He said the house of the LGA commander was also set ablaze.

Source: Legit.ng

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