Killing of UNIBEN student: CSOs urge Oshiomhole not to halt probe BENIN CITY - Civil Society Organizations in Edo State have called on the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole not to halt his earlier plan of setting up panel of enquiry into the killing of the University of Benin Student, Ibrahim Momodu allegedly by the police. The civil Society Organisations made of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, National Association of Nigerian Students,(NANS) National Association of Polytechnic Students, Conference of Non-Governmental Organization of Nigeria councils, Pan Nigeria Youth Congress, Southern Nigeria Youth Congress, National Farmers Initiative Association of Nigeria, Edo Citizen Speak Initiative, Gani Fawehinmi Movement for Good Governance, Niger-Delta People Salvation Front, National Association of Man ‘O’ War Clubs in Higher Institutions of Nigeria, The Talakwa’s Parliament, Edo Youth for Good Governance, Initiative for Youth Awareness On Migration, Immigration, Development and Re-integration, Edo Youth Activists Association, R.U. Oronsaye Foundation, Edo Youth Congress and the lawyer to the bereaved family, Barrister Jefferson Uwoghiren issued this statement at the end of a meeting held yesterday at ANEEJ secretariat in Benin city. The group in a communiqué issued shortly after the meeting and read by the President of Conference of Non-Governmental Organization of Nigeria, Comrade Obasanmi Jude said the Edo State Government should not go back on its decision of setting up the panel of enquiry and ensured that forensic experts should be invited to ascertain the finger prints on the gun. Also, the group said the call is imperative for the state government to set up the investigative panel in order to establish the actual truth about the killing of the UNIBEN student and for it not to be swept under the carpet and urged the Nigerian Police authority to retrieve the case file sent to the State Director of Public Prosecution, DPP for advice and follow due process. The group said that they observed that against the police claim that the student was shot in the legs, autopsy report released has proven that the student was shot three times from the back and that going by the antecedent of the Nigerian Police with handling of case files, the authenticity of the case file sent to the DPP is questionable.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:07:02 +0000
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