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Beyond the Iva Valley persecutions, Ugwu had emerged to offer comradely leadership to the intimidated, oppressed and marginalized working class peoples of Enugu state under the auspices of the Enugu Workers’ Forum (EWF). On October 24, 2011, he had mobilized over 3,000 workers to the secretariat of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in the State capital, to hold a prayer protest, to increase pressures on governor Chime to pay the agreed N18, 000 (less than $200) minimum wage to workers in the State. The event had progressed to some peaceful peak at about 5:30pm, when over 300 murderous-looking combined security operatives-policemen, soldiers and thugs heavily armed with various dimensions and length of guns swooped on the venue. It was like a dreadful display of desperate gangsters in a terror movie, firing their lethal weapons arbitrarily and issuing orders to any one at sight. Poor workers wailed and formed a ring round their leader, Ugwu so that he won’t be taken away by state agents. What can the weak and unarmed workers do to the heavily armed security operatives and thugs loyal to Governor Chime?

Comrade Osmond Ugwu was captured and tortured to a cataleptic state and stripped naked. He was dragged on rough roads like a bundle of dried elephant grasses fastened together and dumped in a waiting police truck, and taken to a filthy and over-crowded cell at the police headquarters in the city, denied access to his wife and three children who always crying that they want to see their Daddy. Doctors, lawyers, comrades and friends were not allowed to see him. When he regained consciousness in police cell, he discovered that a worker who was at the event was also abducted like him. He is Raphael Elobuike. Both suffer terrific health hurt from the violence.

Two days after, Ugwu was arraigned before a magistrate Court of Mrs. Alukwu on an outlandish charge of conspiracy to murder a policeman. Illogical indeed, Ugwu doesn’t know the police he wants to murder. He is a man of peace and believes so much in non-violent tactics to win his minimum wage rights to the workers of his state. The judiciary is part of the problems of this country, though there are few credible persons in that arm. Mrs. Alukwu refused to yield to act in an arbitrary manner Governor Chime had wanted; she was in the interim deposed from her court. As at 7.30am, Phil Nwankwo, a dishourable Kangaroo magistrate was brought in, to do the hack bidding. The Kangaroo trial which was strictly supervised by Anthony Ani, the State Attorney-General, and the court session did not last up to 30 minutes. Comrade Ugwu and his co-detainee were sent to the awaiting trail section of the infamous Enugu prisons on the orders of Nwankwo. The Enugu prison is one of the worst prisons in Nigeria. A prison built since colonial days, poor ventilation, cells are congested, and conditions there are subhuman, diseases and deadly sickness thrive. This is where Ugwu with his fading vigor is held on false allegation. I have visited that prison and, that is not a place to keep somebody even for a minute.

Peter Esele, President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Abdulwaheed Omar, leader of the NLC and other trade union activists have the stories  of their lives  to tell  about their abductions, in their hotels in Enugu by hundreds of thugs, (both officials and unofficial) on Chime’s payroll. In the morning hours of Thursday, September 8, 2011, I was on my way travelling through Enugu to the neighboring state of Kogi when I heard about the maximum war of the governor against the minimum wage activists. A strike was declared in the aftermath of the government attack, Comrade Ugwu, an Enugu worker who was working at the state health management board, and later transferred to the Enugu liason office in Lagos just to punish him, sustained the paralyzing strikes. The government tried to destabilize the workers and frustrate the worker’s industrial action, but failed. In an interview on a federal radio station, Chime pointedly mentioned Ugwu’a name three times as being the cause of the workers trouble in the State.

Attorneys to the persecuted Ugwu had approached Justice Afam Nwobodo of Enugu High Court for bail, but the judge refused. Incidentally, Nwobodo is the husband of Mrs. Ifeoma Nwaobodo, Chief of Staff (CSO) to Governor Sullivan Iheanacho Chime. She is a tremendously potent woman in the government whose orders are instant laws in the state territory. Josef Umunnakwe Onoh, youngest son of the late Chief C.C. Onoh, the former governor of the old Anambra State and former chairman of the Enugu State House of Assembly Committee on finance and appropriation has a lot of bitter tales to tell about his encounter with the mighty Ifeoma Nwobodo. Josef’s criticisms of the Chime’s government appeared in the August 25, 2009 edition of The Daily Sun newspaper, page 4 and 24; he was arrested, few days after, Mrs. Ebere Egumbe magistrate court ordered him to remain in prison custody for criminal libel against Ifeoma and her government. Even Goddy Osuji, the Daily Sun reporter who interviewed Josef was charged too. That is Chime’s tear in the Iva valley.

Enugu State under Governor Chime like his predecessor, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, is run like a repressive banana republic. Those who question his broken promises, wild and pugnacious misrule are arrested, detained and brutalized on tramped up charges. Conceivably, after reading this piece, I may be arrested on charges on murder and armed robbery. These are treacherous epochs. These infantile crops of new breed politicians will destroy this beautiful country. This is not a democracy. This is not the brand of democracy some of us were jailed for. Certainly, this is not the democracy Comrade Osmond Ugwu fought for. We don’t have a democracy. What we have throughout the country is a government of the gangsters and thugs. The Nigerian masses must rise up and struggle to create a better society. If we don’t, noone from any where will do it for us.

The words of Albert Mukong, the Cameroonian activist in his chronicle, Prisoner Without a Crime, is completely cautionary, “The rule of law presupposes both rights and duties for each citizen and on no account must government trample on these rights. The refusal by government to respect these rights is the worst form of anarchy and surely prepares the ground for rebellion”.