Trending: Man O’ war tied and tor/tured a 100 level FUTO student to death over ₦13k. Barely a week after they brut/alized another student with cutlass, and beat up a lady for being “rude” [Full Story, Gory Imgs in Comments]
It’s a twisted horror because Chibuzor was an ex Man O’ War, infact he once served as aide-de-camp to commander Benedict. So the switch on him was unprecedented, and surprising to many students.
According to multiple accounts, the ₦13k in dispute was stolen two years ago, but he allegedly ran away, and now was caught for stealing again, then the commander ordered them to beat him up for both crimes.
Chibuzor Chinedu was accused of stealing ₦13k from the Man O’ war commander, Benedict. Despite pleas from students for his release;
They refused and instead, tied him to a pole, flogged and tortured him for over five hours from 8pm deep into the night, locked him up in the guardroom, till he became unresponsive and by morning died.
Pandemonium erupted after students got wind of the news. They shut down the school in protest, demolished and burnt the Man O’ war building, which prompted the school authorities to finally and effectively disband the unit.
But it was too late, because there have been multiple, nay, plentyy, complaints over misconduct of the unit, because they’ve become a tool for oppression, bullying and intimidation, fondly perceived rather as Gods O’ War.
Because despite their atrocities over time, the school authorities always backed them up, and even allegedly punished students who spoke up, for “rebellion”.. that’s why the student couldn’t do anything, because the school always backs the civilian paramilitary unit, and either rusticate students.
Recently, a 300 level student was flogged with cutlass till his skin peeled off. All because the hall president contracted the God O’ war to “handle” him for cooking inside the hostel and being “rude” to him.
Last semester they beat up a lady because she was “rude” to them. The also beat up a faculty president last semester, all was swept under by the school authority.
Interestingly, all of these Man O’ war guys are also students. The Nigerian police have reportedly classified Chibuzor Chinedu’s case as murder and arrested three suspects;
— Commander Chukwuemeka Benedict, 21;
— Kelechi Gospel Ikenna, 24; and
— Obioma Anastasia, 21, all are 500 level students.
Man O’ war is not a military unit, they are a voluntary civil youth development organization, they are now law enforcement agencies. Basically they’re a glorified Boy Scout group.
They cannot be enlisted to the military in any capacity in an event of national conflict or emergency. But they can support with evacuation, crowd control etc.
NYSC is ranked above them, only that, members can join the O’ war, as early as from Secondary School.
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