Thunder, condoms, elder statemen and other killers of Iniubong Umoren – Part 2
Most political elites in Uyo and indeed Nigeria, are notorious for voodoo which they believe, helps them stay in power. Lots of atrocious things are done across political divides by these satanic agents of the devil, some of whom are called elder statemen in our society. They regularly grab news headlines with fancy titles even as their fingers are dripping with fresh human blood. His Excellency A. Honorable Minister B. Right Honorable Senator X Honorable Member Y. Honorable Chairman Z. Men of power in public, but brittle feeble-minded weakling servants of witchery and witchcraft at night. Their souls completely sold to shrines across continents and hamlets in exchange for transient senseless empty ephemeral power. They killed Iniubong because they needed her bones for the native doctor. Heartless despicable maniacs. Devils.
There is another category of terrifying blood-sucking monstrous killers, masquerading under the camouflage of “fathers of faith” and religion in Uyo. They dress in overflowing ropes, cassocks, soutanes and long dangling ornamental chains complete with golden glassy crucifix toppings. They compete among themselves to “win souls for christ” (note the small c in christ) using instant wondrous miracles gotten from the deep of the devil. Men of god (note the g in god too) who derive power of miracles from native doctors, shrines, bones and skulls and places where human blood is main menu. They search far and wide to satisfy their covenants. One of them met his waterloo and committed suicide in his Church few years ago because he was unable to avail his devil-masters with the blood of his wife and family as he earlier covenanted. They patronize the human parts market. They killed Iniubong. Because they need the bones. And skulls.
Nigerians are sick and tired of the violence meted to the Nigerian Police by “unknown gunmen” in the last couple of months. I am too. I condemn any violence against the Police and/or any other agency or people. No one deserves to be targeted and killed, the way the Police in southern Nigeria is being killed. Especially because the police is an indispensable tool for orderliness in the society. However, their oft tacit compelling connivance with people of influence to kill and get away with murder is legend.
From day one, the Police in Uyo has been acting and sounding as accomplices in this heinous crime. In their first Press Statement immediately the crime was uncovered by the vigilant mob of Nigerian Twitter Community, the Police quickly said that Uduak acted alone. This was to foreclose the obvious trail to “big men” that this crime connects. Before then, we learn that the victim’s sister reported her sibling’s disappearance on the day she was killed. The Police did nothing. They dismissed the alarm, telling the sister to wait for 24 hours to complain. Those 24 hours stood between the chance of death and the grave. Iniubong was killed.
Since then, the police has not relented in playing the role of accomplices. The same role they played in releasing culprits connected to the ESN in Essien Udim, who were under their custody in 2020 for “want of evidence”. Until the boys turned on them. And killed them in 2021.
In 2018 when I was kidnapped by a prominent politician, who is currently a Minister in the Buhari government, and whose name has been openly mentioned in the the Iniubong murder, policemen attached to him were my abductors. They supervised my torture and humiliation the Minister’s hands, in his house. They drove the car I was conveyed in. To please the big man. Thunder…!
Finally, governments at all levels are culpable in the murder of citizen Iniubong. If only the level of unemployment in Uyo was not so high, entrenched by a culture of wastefulness and wanton looting. If only the more than N1.9 Trillion that accrued to the state from the federation account in the last 14 years went into development initiatives to create a business-friendly environment for commerce and industry, that would have spurred employment opportunities for the masses. Perhaps, citizen Iniubong would not have been lured to death by a depraved Uduak, using employment as bait.
Alas, the words of the great Dele Giwa, who was himself killed by agents of the state, for his audacious uncompromising professionalism, ring true. Hear him: “No evil deed will go unpunished. Any evil done by man to man will be redressed. If not now then certainly later; if not by man, then by God for the victory of evil over good is temporary”.
The frighteningly sadistic extermination of citizen Iniubong by accomplices in low and high places reminds us all that the long arm of justice may not always be enough to punish all those, who connive to kill the poor. Each of them would be fired by the thunder of God’s judgement on earth and in the hereafter. They may hide from man, but they would never hide from history. And God.
Thunder fire them.
*****Celestine Mel is an externally displaced son of war-torn Essien Udim in Akwa Ibom State. He writes from the FCT – Abuja.
