Netherlands-based Nigerian Niger Delta and Environmental Right Activist, Comrade Sunny Ofehe has scheduled to mark the final burial rite ceremony of his mother, Madam Theresa Noghanyin ten years after she was assassinated in Benin-City, Edo State capital by suspected gunmen who reportedly trailed her to her residence in Benin where she was killed.
Although Ofehe mother’s who was killed at the peak of the Niger Delta crisis had since been interred, the ceremonial funeral rite was postponed thrice following unforeseen circumstances.
When he was preparing to return to Nigeria for the burial in 2011, precisely four days for him to make the trip back home, the Dutch police swooped on him owing to trumped up charges of ‘terrorism’.
They misunderstood him and because of that for 18 months, he was placed under police investigation and surveillance, during which his telephone conversations were regularly tapped.
On several occasions, undercover police officers broke into his car and wired it with listening and tracking device. They placed a vehicle with surveillance camera in front of his office for five weeks.
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