A pro-democracy and
Non-Governmental organization, the Human Rights Writers Association, HURIWA,
has alleged that the police high command is in the process of sweeping under
the carpet, the alleged killing of 19-year-old female student of Cross Rivers
State University Miss. Joy Odama by one Alhaji Usman I. Adamu in Abuja.
The Rights group also condemned
the “lack of action” by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris on
the attack by gunmen on Saint Philips Catholic Church Ozubulu, Anambra state on
Sunday August 13th 2017.
HURIWA said the Anambra state
police command and the office of the Inspector General of Police seems to be
colluding to maintain conspiratorial silence on the crime and allegedly failed
to embark on any comprehensive investigation into the bloody attack on the
worshippers.
HURIWA, in a statement made
available to DAILY POST by the National Coordinator its Comrade Emmanuel
Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, condemned
the rapid deterioration of professionalism in the Nigeria Police Force under
the current dispensation which has led to the piling up of several unresolved
crimes that happened in different parts of Nigeria.
The group said the last time it
reached out to the police high command in Abuja about two months ago, it was
informed that the Inspector General of police has sent the file of Alhaji Usman
Adamu to the director of public prosecution for action.
The statement added, “We are
shocked that the office of the Federal Attorney General has refused to take
action to bring the alleged murderer to speedy trial before the competent court
of law. Does the office of the Attorney General of the Federation require
eternity to prosecute a suspect allegedly linked to the gruesome murder of a
young female student or is it because she isn’t a daughter of a chieftain of
All Progressives Congress?”
“HURIWA recalled that the Nigeria
Police had announced on June 28th 2017 that it has arrested Alhaji Usman Adamu,
the alleged murder of one Joy Odoma, a 200-level mass communication student of
the Cross Rivers State University.
“HURIWA also recalled that the
deceased mother, Mrs. Philomena Odama, had petitioned the Inspector General of Police
Ibrahim Idris, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of
Representatives Yakubu Dogara, over the murder of her first daughter, Joy.
“In the petition, Mrs. Odama,
alleged that Joy was murdered by one Alhaji Usman Adamu, who had offered to
give her job at the NSCDC.
“HURIWA recalled that consequent
upon the petition, the police IGP, Ibrahim Idris purportedly declared Alhaji
Adamu wanted and ordered immediate investigation over the incident but the
Rights group believes the hierarchy of the police may be shielding the alleged
murderer because of his extensive reach within the top echelons of the security
circles.
“HURIWA accused the police of
engaging in a well crafted hide-and-seek game on this matter just as the Rights
group expressed consternation that the office of the Senate President has also
failed to properly activate mechanisms to investigate the allegations that the
police was indeed undermining the forensic investigation of the gruesome
killing of Miss Joy Odama.
“HURIWA recalled that the police
had initially stated that: ‘the principal suspect Alh. Usman I. Adamu is the
owner of Flat 3, Ibro Quarters Karimo Abuja, where Joy Odama was found dead in
the morning of 21/12/2016.’
“HURIWA however believes that the
deliberate slow approach to the matter shows that there is a plot to scuttle
the prosecution of the alleged murderer.
“HURIWA recalled that to
ascertain the actual cause of death of Joy Odama, an autopsy examination was
carried out by a Pathologist Dr. Jibrin Paul with National Hospital, Abuja was
released to the Police on the 10th May, 2017 which revealed that Joy Odama died
of cocaine poisoning occasioned by cardiogenic shock secondary to difusion. But
ironically, the police ordered for a second autopsy which came up with a
contradictory finding.
“On the attack by unknown gunmen
on Sunday August 6 which killed scores of worshippers at Ozubulu church in
Anambra state, we expressed shock that the police have yet to make any
constructive arrest even when the police commissioner was quoted as stating
that he has intelligence on the circumstances surrounding the sophisticated
crime of mass murder.
“HURIWA is compiling records of
all the unresolved crimes in the last five years to forward the reports to the
International Criminal Court in The Hague Netherlands for necessary
investigative and prosecutorial actions since the Nigerian crime investigation
system seems compromised.”
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