Death toll in the Anambra
church stampede in Uke,
Idemili Local government has
risen to 52, as fresh facts Fresh
facts indicting Governor Peter
Obi of Anambra state emerge.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives
Congress flag bearer in the
forth-coming governorship
election in the state Senator
Chris Ngige has condoled with
the metropolitan archbishop of
the Onitsha Catholic
Archdiocese Dr Valerie Okeke
as well as the Overseer of the
Holy Ghost Adoration Centre
Uke, Rev. Fr Emmanuel Obima
over the most avoidable
stampede that led to the death
of tens of some worshippers at
the adoration ground in the
early hours of Saturday.
In separate letters to the two
clergies, Senator Ngige said
that the incident was most
unfortunate especially when
viewed from the standpoint that
the innocent victims of the
tragedy left their homes hale
and hearty to go and get
spiritual upliftment only for
them to meet their untimely
death. He prayed the almighty
god to receive the souls of the
reposed to eternal rest.
Ngige who is a member of the
Knight of Saint John
International (KSJI) while on a
visit to three hospitals where
the bodies of the deceased from
the disaster have been
confirmed received, has
announced an emergency first
line fund of N500, 000 (Five
Hundred Thousand Naira)
towards the cost of treatment
of those still alive and receiving
treatment in the three
hospitals.
READ: Hold Gov. Peter Obi
Responsible For Uke Deadly
Stampede – APC
READ: 30 Killed As Obi/
Obiano’s Campaign During
Night Vigil Causes Stampede
Ngige, a medical doctor by
profession made an initial cash
deposit to the management of
Crown Hospital yesterday, after
discussing with the medical
director of the hospital in a visit
yesterday. The APC candidate
also seized the moment to talk
at length with one of the
beneficiaries, Miss Chiamaka
Ikeora currently in stable
condition and receiving
treatment.
He took time off to console the
anxious relations of the victims
and other patients when he
visited the injured at the
various hospitals were they are
receiving treatment yesterday.
The Chris Ngige Campaigns
Organisation has warned Gov
Peter Obi to keep Senator
Ngige out of his reckless waste
of 52 lives in Anambra State
and counting, noting that while
the organisation is grieved at
the sad occurrence arising on
the same day the governor paid
an unscheduled and
unannounced campaign visit to
a church in the dead of the
night, with full compliments of
the APGA gubernatorial
campaign machinery, it is not
prepared to play needless
politics with the lives of
innocent Ndi Anambra.
Out of those confirmed dead so
far ‘not less than 28’ according
to the management of Crown
Hospital Nkpor are in their
morgue, 17 are lying in St
Charles Borromeo Hospital
Onitsha and nine in Immaculate
Heart Hospital Nkpor
But in a statement endorsed by
the Director of Media &
Publicity in Chris Ngige
Campaign Organisation (NGIGE
2014), Chief Charles Amilo, the
Organisation warned Obi that
the traditional recourse of
blaming Senator Ngige each
time Gov Obi fails in one
department of leadership or
governance, should be
moribund by now, and would
certainly not work in the very
serious circumstance at hand’
“Senator Dr Chris Ngige, neither
attended the crusade, knew
about it, nor received the report
of the crusade in good time
after the fact’ adding that ‘If Ndi
Anambra who are not
necessarily politicians
spontaneously rejected Gov Obi
and his handpicked stooge in a
vigil in which they had no prior
knowledge that high-profile
guests in APGA uniform will
barge into their worship with
fliers and sirens, and tear gas, it
would not be for Ngige to take
any blame.
“To worsen matters this
audience reportedly, included
Chief Victor Umeh, whose
agreement to feed fat on
Anambra State is wide public
knowledge, and his co-
signatory in the agreement, Mr
Obiano who only hours before
the reported disaster was
involved in debate malpractice
on television and Chief Joe-
Martins Uzodike, Campaign
Manager for Obiano and
Commissioner for Information,
who being from Awka Etiti in
Idemili South has spearheaded
the removal of over 64
billboards of Senator Chris
Ngige standing in Anambra
State.
“NGIGE 2014 through Amilo
therefore invited Gov Peter Obi
to rise to the responsibility of
Governance in the remaining
part of his tenure by promptly
explaining to Ndi Anambra
what his security details were
reported to have done to create
a stampede in an unsuspecting
place of worship, as further
obfuscation of facts from his
government may build
avoidable tension’
“ NGIGE 2014 noted that ‘rather
than throw feeble punches
around when leadership,
responsibility, caution and
circumspection call, the
governor who is directly and
vicariously liable, in this
disaster as all pieces of
evidence so far suggest, should
make way for an independent
autopsy, to form part of an
independent investigation on
the matter in which 52 are
dead and three are missing,
hundreds are injured and the
count in on. This is one more
Ezu River must not go away
unexplained”, the statement
added.
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