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Osita Chidoka charged for sacrilege, suspended by Igwe of Obosi

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Osita Chidoka charged for sacrilege, suspended by Igwe of Obosi

Former Aviation Minister, Chief Osita Chidoka, has been accused of committing sacrilege by the traditional ruler of Obosi town in Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka II.

Consequently, Chidoka, a spokesman of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, has been suspended from the Council of Chiefs of Obosi town.

Igwe Iweka, who stated this in a statement at the weekend, said the sacrilege Chidoka allegedly committed was that he, along with two others; Chief Linus Mgbakaogu and Chief Hyacinth Udemba, brought corpses of two Obosi youths killed during the March 9 re-run election to his palace.

Tradition of Obosi kingdom forbids the king and his council from seeing human corpse.

In a statement signed by Dr Benneth Mozie on behalf of the monarch and his chiefs in council, Osita and the two othere were said to have made the king and his council see human corpse, hence committing a sacrilege.

“On arriving at the palace, these chiefs in council instructed that the corpse be off loaded and dumped in the palace, an insulting and dishonouring act, an abomination of the gravest magnitude.

“After due consultations and deliberations with all relevant ancient traditional bodies of Obosi, the Igwe Iweka II in council, hereby announces the indefinite suspension from his cabinet of the above mentioned three chiefs.

“This suspension is for their acts of sacrilege against the revered age-old customs of the people and Obosi ancient kingdom,” the statement reads.

Meanwhile, Chief Anthony Nwabude, the Traditional Prime Minister of Obosi (Onowu Obosi), has said that “there was never a meeting where the cabinet met to discuss and come up with the resolution that was read.

“Since the killings, the cabinet has never met to discuss it; so, I am not in support of it.”

In his reaction, Mgbakaogu one of the affected persons, dismissed the suspension claim, telling newsmen that the monarch could not suspend any member of the cabinet without convening a general meeting of the council.

“Two Obosi sons were killed because of election and the youths of the town insisted on taking their corpse to their king in protest of numerous deaths we have witnessed, and the three of us were there to witness what happened.

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“The Igwe has had running battles with Obosi community and presently there is a panel of inquiry looking into these issues, we are still expecting the white paper from Anambra Government.

“I am not surprised at the purported suspension which cannot stand, I have been in the traditional cabinet for nine years and eight months, long before he became an Igwe, so I remain Atta Obosi,” he explained.

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