Anambra security agents who assaulted youth coppers were ready to rape, kill…lawyer alleges

20.8.2025
Anambra Security agents who recently assaulted a National Youth Corps member Jennifer Elobor are explaining their action to the police.
The security agents also known as Agunechemba Vigilante Group armed with guns were seen in a viral video on the internet, harassing corps members in their apartment in Oba near Onitsha Anambra State. They were seen assaulting Elobor with her clothes torn off.
Speaking Wednesday, her lawyer Cyrus Onu said that the perpetrators had threatened to rape and kill her for speaking out during the incident.
“They [security agents] were banging the door, and Jennifer was trying to open the door, and they just kicked the door, and it almost hit their face,” he told Channels TV
“Most of them were masked in mufti with guns, so you can imagine how scared the kids [corps members] were.
“They [security agents] didn’t give any identification. They just said, ‘Come down, come down. You’re all thieves! You’re all ‘Yahoo’ people!’
“When they tried to drag them downstairs, Jennifer was insisting that if they must take them anywhere, they should allow them [corps members] to call their LGI [Local Government Inspector] because the corps members did not know who the operatives were.
“That was when they started pouncing on her. They made derogatory comments, asking her who gave her the right as a lady to speak to them anyhow. They started beating her.
“She asked them to allow her to change into something appropriate, and they said, ‘That thing you’re trying to cover, we’ll see it today. We’ll beat you up, we’ll rape you, kill you, and dump you, and nobody can say anything.”
The State Government, through the Special Adviser to Governor Soludo on Community Security, Ken Emeakayi, while condemning the assault on the corps member, said on Tuesday that those involved had been arrested.
“They are suspended because when a case has been established against someone, you arrest the person, then hand him over to the police.
“Now, since they were not readily prepared for persecution, which will be carried out by the police, they are now undergoing other disciplinary measures within our system, pending the final evaluation of the matter, whether they are going to court or not going to court as it relates to the victim,” he had said.