FOLLOWING the setting up of a panel of enquiry to unravel the alleged
killing of a 22-year-old Ibrahim Momodu, a final year student of the
University of Benin by a police officer, last Wednesday, by Governor
Adams Oshiomhole, the corpse was yesterday exhumed by the police to
undergo an autopsy.
Meanwhile, controversy has continued to trail the killing of Momodu.
While the police command in the state is claiming that he was a robber
who was shot while trying to evade police arrest, the family said their
son was never a criminal and was shot unjustly by the police.
However, it was learnt that the DPO who allegedly shot the deceased
was being investigated as the state Commissioner of Police, Funsho
Adebanjo, had vowed to investigate the matter.
Civil society organisations and students staged a peaceful protest last Tuesday, calling for the investigation of the matter.
The exhume body was taken away by a team
of pathologists and Vanguard observed that the deceased was buried with
the cloths which he wore the day he was shot. Counsel to the family of
the deceased Barr.Jeff Uworghiren, described as wicked “the allegation
by the police that the deceased was a criminal. But I am happy we have
our pathologist ready so we will see how it goes. We are only asking for
justice, this is a test case for the new chairman of the Police Service
Commission”.
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