Eddy Nawgu

Nawgu, when apprehended on the 14th trial by the vigilante group, was taken to their base of operation for further questioning and interrogation. His release to the Nigerian police was vehemently opposed as the Bakassi boys argued the police were very much corrupt and could easily be influenced.

In the year 1999/2000, Nawgu, had become a person of interest in numerous crimes committed not only in the community, but across Anambra state as a whole and had begun to attract the attention of the Bakassi Boys; a vigilante security group which was set-up and spearheaded under the tenure of Chinwoke Mbadinuju, former governor of Anambra state.

Eddy Nawgu// (listen) (born Edward Onyebuchi Okeke// (listen)) was an alleged dreaded Nigerian sorcerer, occultist and as described by the Nigerian media; a false prophet who initially proclaimed himself to be a prophet of the biblical Abrahamic God. He bore several sobriquets throughout his life time but was predominantly known in the mid-1990s as Eddy Nawgu alternatively spelt also as Eddie Nawgu amongst the igbo speaking people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His other notable sobriquet which was Eddy na Nawgu which when translated to the English language means Eddy in Nawgu came about because he was from the Nawgu community, a town situated in the Dunukofia LGA of Anambra State, Nigeria.

During the mid-1990s in Onitsha, Anambra State, Eddy Nawgu had become a notable religious leader.