Vehicular
movement was yesterday paralyzed in parts of Benin City, the Edo State
Capital, as Students mainly from the University of Benin, staged a
protest over the alleged shooting to death of a 500 level, 22 year Old
student, Momodu Ibrahim, of the Faculty Laboratory Science.
The
students dressed in black attire marched through the streets of Benin
calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Divisional
Police Officer, Carol Afegbua in charge of Ogida Police station over
her alleged complicity in the murder of Momodu.
Late
Momodu who was the only male child of his parents was said to have been
shot a stone throw from his family house located at No 1, Igbobawaye
Street off Siluko road by Textile mill junction.
Addressing
newsmen at the Nigeria Union of Journalists,( NUJ), secretariat, the
immediate sister of the deceased, Ebohon Rebecca Egbe while calling for
Justice gave an account of how the life of his brother was cut shot by
the bullet of the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Ogida.
“
I was in my office in Port- Harcourt when I received a call from Benin
from a cousin of mine who is a Police officer that I should take heart
that we lost Ibrahim my younger brother. I called my mother and she said
they have been looking for him in last two days, normally it is after
48 hours that you report such thing to the Police.
The family according to the sister of the slain student was informed that the body of late Momodu had been buried at a public Cemetery in Egor local Government Area of the State.
Several calls by our correspondent to the Commissioner of Police, Folusho Adebanjo, and the Police Public Relation officer, ASP Charles Eguavoen, were unanswered at the time of filing this report.
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Somthing abt dis news piece isn't straight...if he was truely holding a gun and all dat,and so he was shot,why den did dey secretly bury him???????????????
ReplyDeletePlease edit your articles more professionally, why do you keep referring to female subjects as "he or his" and male ones as "she or her"? Your site is read internationally, i think you should be more thorough in your editing
ReplyDeleteNo this cannot continue this extra judicial killings must be dealt with. In the case of this woman and her cohorts they didn't show any remose. They. Must be brought to book.
ReplyDeletepolice force always use innocent citizens to shine bt run away when confronted by hudlums. If d boy was holding gun, why did the dpo bury him secretly and too, why was the news not announced in the air. Justice shud prevail in this matter.
ReplyDeleteProsecute the DPO now,may be the young guy has been used for rituals ...Edo state shaa! When will you repent,full of criminal acts..
ReplyDeleteDis is sad. Dis foolish DPO n his/her cohorts shd b dealth with as they hav not even said d truth. Babarians.
ReplyDeleteThis boy must have stumbled on the police indulging in illegal act that's why he was killed cause police always parade killed armed robbers on tv even after they are shot dead. Nigeria police when will you stop all these.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing they will say now is that the deseased was a cultist armed to engage them in a gun battle when they were carrying out their duty.This is why there should be a proper orientation for our policemen/women carrying arms on the when,where,event,how to use it.By law a police man is not suppose to shoot to death anybody that is not arm,or threatening lives,or did not shoot at them first or intend to,but NGR police does not know that.Please let proper investation be done on this and May the soul of the untimely death of that young man find rest in peace.Hmmmm
ReplyDeleteNigeria Police!!! What a shame, we rarely hear any good news about them.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame indeed.
If not for the death of the innocent civillians if boko haram attacks, Honestly I support them killing police men because they are the criminals and they cause us to face problems of insecurity.
ReplyDeleteThey continue shooting innocent people and later change their criminal language that it was self defence. Police to take proper training on how to live with the civillians or else we the civillians will go after them one after the other,