Chidi Nwosu a bonafide indigene of God's own state, Abia State began his human rights work in the late 90's under the mentorship of late Honorable Ransome-Bello Kuti, founder of the 'Campaign for Democracy' (CD). Before his recent joining of the Abia State Government, Southeast, Nigeria as general manager of the Abia State Rubber Company Limited was involved in a number of human rights and pro-democracy activities, especially in Abia State and Southeast Nigeria. He was the Southeast Nigerias chairman of the Campaign for Democracy, nationally headed by Dr. Josephine Odumakin. He was also a founding member of the Southeast Nigerias coalition of civil rights and pro-democracy activists as well as founder of the Human Rights & Justice Foundation. volved in a number of human rights and pro-democracy activities, especially in Abia State and Southeast Nigeria. He was the Southeast Nigerias chairman of the Campaign for Democracy, nationally headed by Dr. Josephine Odumakin. He was also a founding member of the Southeast Nigerias coalition of civil rights and pro-democracy activists as well as founder of the Human Rights & Justice Foundation. Mr. Nwosu was a leading dissent voice, challenging the excesses of the present Government of Abia State, on issues of insecurity, including serial abductions and other violent and property crimes that enveloped the State in recent months. At a point, he, alongside his family members, fled the State and temporarily settled in Abuja, the Nigerias capital for fear of being harmed by the killer-State agents. He was at a point, wrongly arraigned in court alongside others over stage-managed criminal charges and had severally cried out over fears of being harmed by the Abia State Government.
He reportedly spearheaded a campaign, including a legal battle against the illegitimate sale of the State Government-owned Abia State Rubber Company Limited, allegedly to the mother of the former governor of the State. He successfully won the campaign, which partly earned him the general managership of the Rubber Company, at the instance of the Government of Abia State, said to be meant to woe him to the government side.
It was barely few months after his acceptance of the post in the Company, said to be located in his locality that his murderers came calling. He barely came back from a night outing than the assassins swooped on him at his residential premises, bundled him into his apartment, rounded up his wife and other family members, locked them up inside their toilet, before mass-beaten him. He was reportedly shot at close range and dragged from one room to the other, after which he was further shot twice, before he was abandoned in the pool of his own blood. The murderers reportedly escaped unmolested and abandoned one of their guns, which is now reportedly in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force.
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