The unfinished building where security forces
killed at least seven squatters Friday, September 20, in the Apo
neighbourhood of Abuja, belongs to Mrs. Adunni Oluwole Salisu, believed
to be the sister to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, our
correspondent investigation has revealed.
Documents from the Abuja Geographical Information Systems
(AGIS) shows that the property, located at No. 8 Bamanga Tukur Street,
Gudu District, near the Gudu cemetery, belongs to Mrs. Salisu.
Ownership
details of property OG247326, point unmistakably to Mrs. Salisu’s land
rights, but neither her, nor the former president, could be reached for
comment; although authoritative family sources confirmed the ownership
and the relationship.
The Gudu killings have pitched the Nigerian human rights community against anti-terrorist campaigners in a bitter debate about the threshold of caution that security forces
on anti-terror missions ought to uphold where the insurgency is
generally armed, and have demonstrated maximum capability for ruthless
murder and violence.
Soldiers and SSS officials, spurred by
intelligence reports that a sleeper cell of Boko Haram insurgents,
embedded in the Gudu neighbourhood, were about to strike again in Abuja,
pre-emtorily stormed the building inhabited by squatters, mostly
tricycles drivers, petty traders and artisans, in the early hours of
Friday, killing at least seven and leaving several injured.
A
spokesman for the tricycle association angrily lambasted security
officials on Channels TV, in an interview Monday, claiming that
“because two or three Boko Haram people were in the building offers no
excuse to kill innocent people.”
Security forces have been in
anxious alert after the Boko Haram insurgents scored a string of deadly
success in missions that targeted This Day newspaper office, the United
Nations office, the Force Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, and the
Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters of the Police- all in Abuja. The sect
has also visited punishing attacks on neighbourhood churches killing
scores of worshipers.
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