Police kills an Undergraduate in Edo State

The late Momodu, said to be the only male child of his parents, was said to have been shot by the police close to his family house at No.1, Igbobawaye Street, Off Siluko Road, by Textile Mill Junction. The elder sister of the deceased, Rebecca Egbe, who narrated to journalists how her brother was killed, called for justice.

She said: “I was in my office in Port Harcourt when I received a call from a cousin in Benin, who is a policeman, condoling me on Ibrahim’s loss. I called my mother and she said they had been looking for him for two days.



“So, she went to the police on May 29, only to be told that my brother was killed by the DPO of Ogida Police Station, Carol Afegbai, and was buried the next day.

His cell-phone, which was with the police, rang all through as we were trying to locate him until the police finally answered and asked my mother to come to the station.

“When the DPO was confronted on why they shot my brother, she said her men didn’t know his identity because he refused to stop when ordered to, and that he had a gun and wanted to shoot at her men on patrol before they shot him in self-defense.”

The family, she said, was informed that his body had been buried at a public cemetery in Egor Local Council. The Guardian severally called the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Folusho Adebanjo, but there was no response.

However, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Moses Eguavoen, said they were planning to address the press on the matter when the Commissioner of Police (CP) was summoned for a security meeting in Government House, and would speak officially on the matter when he returns.

FOR over two hours on Monday, vehicular movement was paralysed in Benin, as family, friends and associates took over the Oba Ovonmramwen Square protesting the alleged killing of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) student, Momodu Ibrahim, by the police attached to Ogida Police Station in Edo State.

The protesters were more aggrieved that the 22-year old 500 level student was also hurriedly buried by the police in Egor Local Council. The protesters, with several banners and anti-police inscriptions, took over the popularly Ring Road, leading to gridlock around the adjoining roads of Sapele, Akpakpava and Airport Road, spilling over to the Government Reservation Area (GRA).