On the 19th of December, 2019, Ifeanyi Osuji, one of the victims of police torture that resulted in the death of an auto mechanic, Chima Ikwunado in Rivers State, testified before a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt about how the dismissed officers of the disbanded Eagle Crack unit of the state police command abused him.

During his testimony, Osuji claimed that the officers beat him and several colleagues, including the late Chima Ikwunado, with a hammer, a 2 by 2 wood plank, and a machete.

During his testimony, Osuji stated that the officers never inquired about the car’s details in order to justify the arrest, but instead simply observed some money in “their hands” as well as “working instruments.”

A continuation hearing has been scheduled for October 6, 14, and 15th, 2021 by the trial judge, Justice Florence Fiberesima, following her hearing of the witness.

Following the discovery that the Ikwunado had been beaten to death by the police officers who had caught and held him and his friends, his death in 2019, aroused widespread indignation in the state.

The security personnel was arrested and charged with a crime after which they were fired and taken to court.

A separate case was postponed until the 14th and 15th of October, the 8th, 9th, and 10th of November 2021 for the murder of one Anale Ozuru, a Unit Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State who was killed by unknown gunmen before his wife and three children on the 21st of September 2019 at Alakahia community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state.

As a result of Ozuru’s death in 2011, Bright Wali, Blessing Ogbuagu, Chineme Wemeh, Stanley Levi, Nnamdi Emenike, and Sunday Bright, all from the Alakahia community, are on trial on three counts of conspiracy, murder, and cultism.