Updated: Attempted murder: Dave Ordor calls for Justice (pictures)

A prominent Son of Akwete in Ukwa East Local Government Area of Abia State, Dave Rufus Ordor, is calling on the Inspector General of Police, and other relevant agencies to investigate an alleged attempt to kill him on February 23rd, 2023.

During a chat with Africa Update, Ordor, said he has been receiving medical attention and his health has not been fully restored despite huge resources spent.

He stressed that the call on the Inspector General of Police to intervene is due to the alleged compromise of the Team investigating the attempted murder case.

In an exclusive chat with Africa Update, Ordor gave a spine chilling account of his ordeal and shared the content of his Petition to the Police Authorities.

The petition reads:

DEAR SIR,
MY NAME IS DAVE RUFUS ORDOR, THE 67 YEARS OLD MAN THAT WAS AMBUSHED, ABDUCTED, BRUTALIZED AND TORTURED FOR FOUR AND HALF HOURS, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 6.30 PM TO 10 45 PM, ON THE 23RD DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2023, AT THE COMPOUND OF ONE PROFESSOR CHINENYE SUNDAY, AT AKWETE, UKWA EAST LGA, ABIA STATE.

IRECHI ORDOR, WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY ELDER BROTHER, AND HIS WIFE, MAY NNENTA ORDOR, WERE THE MASTERMIND, WHILE PROF SUNDAY, PROVIDED THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT AND PREMISES, WHERE THE HEINOUS AND DASTARDLY CRIME, WAS COMMITTED.

PROF SUNDAY, PROVIDED AND ORDERED THE MEN FROM HIS VILLAGE, TO PERPETRATE THIS CRIME. AFTER I WAS FIRST ATTACKED WITH A HARD WALKING STICK BY IRECHI ORDOR, WITH INJURIES, ALL OVER MY BODY, AND INFLICTED SELF INJURY ON HIS OWN FOREHEAD, WITH THE HEAD OF THE SAME WALKING STICK AS WE WERE DRAGGING IT.

THE OTHER MEN TOOK OVER, AND ORDERED ME, TO SIT ON THE GROUND. I REFUSED. IMMEDIATELY, 4 OF THEM GRABBED ME, SLAMMED ME ON THE GROUND, AND USED RUBBER ROPES THAT THEY ALREADY KEPT, READY FOR THIS, AND STARTED TO TIE BOTH MY ANKLES AND MY WRIST.

THE ROPE, WAS SO TIGHT AND EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL, WHICH CAUSED MY ANKLES AND WRISTS GO NUMB. THEY WENT ALONG TO GAG MY MOUTH, AND PROCEEDED TO TORTURE ME TO NO ENDING.

THEY WERE HITTING ME WITH DIFFERENT STICKS, ON DIFFERENT PARTS OF MY BODY. THE ONE NAMED KINSLEY MADUAWUCHI KANU, WAS STEPPING ON MY PAINFULLY TIED FEET. WHILE THE ONE NAMED EZECHI NWACHUKWU WAS HITTING ME EVERYWHERE, WITH DIFFERENT STICKS.

THE ONE NAMED PAUL NWAMKPA, WAS KICKING ME AND ORDERING THEM TO HIT ME TILL I WOULD BREATH NO MORE. THE ONE NAMED CHIDIKE BEBE WAS BUSY GIVING ME HARD BLINDING SLAPS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF MY FACE.

WHILE PROFESSOR SUNDAY’S DRIVER, WAS KICKING ON MY RIBS. I PASSED OUT TWICE, BEGGING GOD TO TAKE MY LIFE, TO END THE PAINFUL EXPERIENCE. WHILE ALL THAT WERE GOING ON, PROFESSOR SUNDAY CAME FROM HIS HOUSE AND WAS URGING THEM TO CONTINUE.

SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT GOT THE INFORMATION OF WHAT WAS GOING ON CAME, AND TOGETHER WITH THE ONES THAT WERE THERE, WERE PLEADING WITH THEM, TO STOP THE BEATINGS, AND THAT UNCLE DAVE IS GOING TO DIE FROM WHAT THEY WERE DOING, BUT THEY CONTINUED, MAINTAINING THAT THEY WILL KILL ME AND DUMP ME IN A SHALLOW GRAVE.

THE ONES THAT INSISTED, WERE PUSHED OUTSIDE THE GATE. IN THE PROCESS, IRECHI CAME BACK FROM THE POLICE STATION, ENTERED A ROOM IN THE HOUSE, AND WAS SHOUTING ON THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT I DON’T LIVE, THAT I HAVE PREVENTED HIM SEVERAL TIMES, FROM BEING OUR VILLAGE CHIEF, BY TAKING HIM AND PROF SUNDAY, TO DIFFERENT COURTS.

AND PROF SUNDAY, WHO ALSO NEEDS IRECHI’S VOTE, ON HIS INORDINATE AMBITION TO BECOME THE TRADITIONAL ROYAL MAJESTY OF AKWETE ANCIENT KINGDOM. THEY ALSO SAID THAT I WENT AND JOINED BOLA TINUBU PATY, APC, WHEN I KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO DIE VERY SOON, AND KNOWING EVERY OTHER PERSON IN THE TOWN, BELONG TO OBIDIENT, THAT THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT NIGHT, THAT I WILL DIE BEFORE TINUBU.

WHILE I LAID THERE WITH MY FACE UP, THE ONE CALLED EZECHI, CAME WITH A CONTAINER, AND POURED URINE ON MY FACE. NOT LONG, IRECHI’S WIFE CAME, LOOKED AT ME, AND ASKED THEM WHY THEY ARE STILL KEEPING ME ALIVE.

THEY EVEN SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE ME TO THE VILLAGE SQUARE, OR TO IMO RIVER, AND DUMP ME THERE ALIVE. PEOPLE WERE TELLING THEM TO CALL THE POLICE, BUT PROF SUNDAY, AND MADUAWUCHI SAID THAT THEY CALLED THE DPO AKWETE, AND HE TOLD THEM TO KEEP ME THERE TILL IN THE MORNING.

SO MANY PEOPLE, CALLED PROF SUNDAY TO SET ME FREE, THAT IF I DIE, THAT THEY WILL BE IN A BIG TROUBLE , BUT HE REFUSED. HONORABLE UZOMA ABONTA OF FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPS, CALLED HIM TO RELEASE ME IMMEDIATELY, BUT HE REFUSED.

CHIEF NWUZO, WHO INVITED ME TO THAT COMPOUND, WAS GOING IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE, CALLING PROF SUNDAY, TO TELL HIS BOYS TO STOP THE TORTURE, BUT HE REFUSED. AFTER A WHILE, ONE OF THEM STARTED TAKING PICTURES AND VIDEO RECORDING, THEY WERE GOING TO SEND TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA, WHICH THEY LATER DID.

IRECHIS WIFE, WAS SHOUTING TO ONE OF THEM TO SHOOT ME WITH HIS GUN. FEW HOURS LATER, A YOUNG POLICE OFFICER CAME THERE, AND ORDERED THEM TO UNTIE ME, WHICH THEY RELUCTANTLY DID. I COULDN’T STAND ON MY FEET.

A YOUNG MAN THERE, HELPED ME TO GET UP. THEY NOW SAT ME DOWN ON A LONG STOOL, AND THE ONE MICKNAMED MOPOL WHO WAS CARRYING A GUN PLACED ME ON A BIKE, AND ANOTHER ONE SAT AT MY BACK AND WE LEFT THE COMPOUND. HALF WAY, THEY STOPPED, AND MOPOL, STARTED SHOOTING SPORADICALLY, WE ENDED UP AT THE POLICE STATION.

AS WE GOT THERE, I STARTED BLACKING OUT. I POINTED MY FINGER TOWARDS MOPOL, AS ONE OF THEM THAT TORTURED ME, AND BEGGED THE OFFICERS THAT I AM DYING, AND NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION, AND TO SEE THE DPO OR DCO AND ALSO CALL PEOPLE THAT WILL HELP ME.

THEY REFUSED, TELLING ME THAT ORDER CAME FROM ABOVE, THAT I SHOULD BE STRIPPED OFF MY CLOTHS AND BE THROWN INSIDE THE CELL NAKED. I TOLD THEM THAT I MAY NOT SURVIVE IT. THE OFFICERS TOLD ME THAT IF I DIE, THEY WILL DUMP ME INSIDE BUSH.

THAT WAS THE LAST THING I KNEW BEFORE I BECAME UNCONSCIOUS TILL I WOKE UP THE NEXT DAY, AND FOUND MYSELF IN A CELL ROOM. IN THE AFTERNOON, THEY CALLED ME OUT TO WRITE STATEMENTS. WHILE I WAS WRITING, IRECHI CALLED THE IPO, TELLING HIM TO KEEP ME THERE TILL MONDAY, SO THAT, THAT WILL MAKE THAT PROF SUNDAY AND OTHER COHORTS MAKE HIM THE VILLAGE CHIEF THAT FRIDAY.

BUT, THEY COULDN’T SUCCEED, BECAUSE EVERYBODY RAN AWAY WHEN THEY HEARD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. I WAS RELEASED ON BAIL WITH N18,000. I LEFT TO PORT HARCOURT, WITH NOTHING IN MY POCKET. BOTH THE MONEY IN MY SOCKS AND MY HANDSETS WERE TAKEN BY THE PEOPLE THAT TORTURED ME.

AS I MANAGED TO GET TO PORT HARCOURT, MY CHILDREN TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL, BMH, WHERE I GOT TREATED. DUE TO THE CRUEL AND HUMILIATING, CARELESS AND COMPROMISED ATTITUDES OF THE AKWETE POLICE, I CONTACTED MY LAWYER, TO WRITE PETITION TO ZONE 9 UMUAHIA, HOPING TO GET TRUE JUSTICE. AND THAT’S WHERE MY SECOND NIGHTMARES AND FRUSTRATION BEGAN FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF MY PETITION THERE IN THE HANDS OF SUPOL CHRIS AND HIS TEAM.

AND THAT’S MY MODUS OPERANDI OF WRITING THIS LETTER TO YOU, AS ADVISED, BY SOME HIGHLY PLACED CITIZENS. THE TEAM, THAT IS HANDLING THE INVESTIGATION OF ATTEMPTED MURDER ON ME, HEADED BY THE TEAM LEADER ASP CHRIS OF PENSION DEPARTMENT, HAVE DECIDED TO BE UNPROFESSIONAL ABOUT THE CASE THROUGH BOTH HIS ACTIONS AND HIS BODY LANGUAGE, AND HIS CARELESS UTTERANCES PORTRAYS ALL ELEMENTS OF COMPROMISE, AND TAKING SIDES WITH THE SUSPECTS.

THE BRUTISH, AND THE TYRANNICAL MANNER, IN WHICH HE HANDLED THE INTERVIEW WITH ME. AND ONE OF THE SUSPECTS, WAS SO HUMILIATING AND DEGRADING TO ME. HE NEVER GAVE ME THE REQUIRED ATTENTION, AND TIME TO EXPLAIN ALL THAT TRANSPIRED THAT HORRIBLE NIGHT, BUT HE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THIS WORLD TO LISTEN TO THE SUSPECT, WHO WAS BUSY RANTING OUT ALL KINDS OF LIES AND FABRICATED TALES AGAINST ME.

AS I GOT FED UP WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON, AND TRY TO DISAGREE, HE STARTED HIS USUAL THREATS. WHICH HE HAS BEEN DOING FROM THE ONSET OF MY CASE IN ZONE 9. HE EVEN SAID THAT I COMMITTED AN ACT OF ASSAULT AT AKWETE POLICE AND RAN TO ZONE 9 TO SEEK REFUGE. AND THAT POLICE IS ONE EVERYWHERE. THAT I WILL STILL ANSWER TO WHAT I DID AT AKWETE.

I TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS PROTECTING THE NINE SUSPECTS INSTEAD OF ME. I ASKED HIM WHY HE HAS NOT ARRESTED THE OTHERS SINCE MORE THAN ONE MONTH THAT THEY WERE INVITED. HE SAID THAT THE PROFESSOR SAID THAT HE WILL NOT RESPOND TO ANY INVITATION POSTED IN HIS HOUSE, OR POSTED ON WHATSAPP, UNLESS THEY FIND HIM AND HAND IT OVER TO HIM.

IRECHI ORDOR HAS BEEN TO ZONE 9 TWICE, BUT DIDN’T COME WITH HIS WIFE, WHO IS ALSO A SUSPECT. AT THE BEGINNING, I WAS ASKED TO PAY TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND NAIRA, TO COVER THE COST OF THE INVESTIGATION AND ARREST OF ALL THE SUSPECTS.

I TOLD THEM THAT I COULD ONLY AFFORD ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND NAIRA, WHICH THEY QUICKLY ACCEPTED. I GAVE THEM SOME CASH RIGHT THERE, AND TRANSFERED THE REST THE NEXT DAY, PLUS OTHER LITTLE ONES THAT I HAVE BEEN GIVING THEM.

THAT’S WHY WHEN WE CAME OUT FROM YOUR OFFICE THAT TWO WEEKS AGO, AND THEY ASKED ME TO RAISE ANOTHER FUND FOR THE INSPECTION OF THE SCENE OF CRIME, AND THE GATHERING OF WITNESSES AT AKWETE. I REFUSED, SINCE THEY HAVE NOT UTILIZED THE ONES I GAVE THEM, FOR ANY USEFUL PURPOSE.

THEY GOT ANGRY. AND SUPOL CHRIS BLAMED INSPECTOR CHIMEZIE FOR BRINGING MY KIND OF CASE TO HIM. I JUST WONDER WHY THEY CALLED ME FOR INTERVIEW WITH ONLY ONE SUSPECT. WHEN THEY HAVE NOT ARRESTED THE OTHER EIGHTH SUSPECTS, WHO HAVE BEEN THREATENING ME, IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, AND MOVING AROUND FREELY AT AKWETE.

NOBODY SHOULD BE ABOVE THE LAW, NOT EVEN A PROFESSOR. AND BESIDES, I AM WAY OLDER THAN PROFESSOR SUNDAY. I HAVE NOT GONE TO AKWETE SINCE THAT INCIDENT, FOR FEAR OF MY LIFE. TWO WEEKS AGO, I ASK THEM WHEN THEY WILL BE READY FOR THE TRIP TO AKWETE, THEY SAID THEY DIDN’T KNOW. THAT THEY WILL INFORM ME WHEN THEY ARE READY, AND THAT I MUST FUND THE TRIP.

THEY NEVER MADE CONTACTS WITH ME AGAIN, TILL LAST WEEKEND SATURDAY, WHEN I WAS SICK, AND IN A HOSPITAL BED, AND ALSO POSTED ME ON A HOSPITAL BED TO SUPOL CHRIS WHATSAPP PAGE, ONLY FOR THE IPO, TWO DAYS LATER, CALLED ME VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, TELLING ME TO START COMING TO AKWETE FOR THE INSPECTION AND THAT HE HAS INFORMED OTHERS.

I ASKED HIM IF ALL THE SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, AND HE SAID NO. HOW CAN YOU INFORM SUSPECTS IN AN ATTEMPTED MURDER CASE, THAT YOU ARE COMING FOR INSPECTION, WHEN THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ARRESTED?. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH IN POLICE INVESTIGATION PROCEDURE BEFORE.

ITS LIKE PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. THAT’S MY MAIN PURPOSE OF WRITING YOU, TO IMPLORE AND PLEAD WITH YOU, TO CHANGE THIS TEAM THAT IS INVESTIGATING MY CASE, ESPECIALLY, THE LEADER, SUPOL CHRIS, AND REPLACE THEM, WITH A MORE DYNAMIC AND STRAIGHT FORWARD ONE.

THAT’S HOW I CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE, AND GET THE DESERVED JUSTICE ON THE CASE . I DON’T TRUST ASP CHRIS. SIR YOU ARE A TOP EXPERIENCED SENIOR POLICE OFFICER, I AM PUTTING MY TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN YOU, AND YOUR EXPERTISE.

I HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING THROUGH POST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO ME THAT NIGHT IN THE HANDS OF THESE MEN. MY CHILDREN, ARE ALSO GOING THROUGH SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL PAINS, DUE TO WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR FATHER.

ENCLOSED WITH THIS LETTER, ARE THE HARD COPIES OF THE PICTURES AND SEVERAL WRITE UPS TO THAT TEAM, IN RESPECT TO THE TORTURE. MY CONTACT PHONE NUMBER. AND WHATSAPP NUMBER IS 08038197840. I WILL BE WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SIR. THANKS. FAITHFULLY YOURS, DAVE RUFUS ORDOR.