A police pathologist, Wilson Akhiwu, on
Thursday, oversaw the exhumation of the remains of Ibrahim Momodu, the
22-year-old undergraduate student of the University of Benin, who was
allegedly killed by policemen.
Momodu was allegedly killed by a patrol
team led by Carol Afegba, a former Divisional Police Officer of Ogida
Police Station in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State.
Afegba, was on Wednesday redeployed from
office to pave the way for the inauguration of a panel of inquiry put
in place by the Edo State to look into circumstances surrounding the
killing of the 500-level Laboratory Science student.
The deceased, whose remains were exhumed
on the order of a magistrate’s court, and taken to Stella Obasanjo
Hospital, was still clad in T-shirt and jeans trousers, at the time he
was exhumed from a shallow grave.
Meanwhile, the police command had
dispatched a delegation led by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Hilda
Harrison, to the Momodu family to offer their condolences.
Lawyer for the family, Jefferson
Uwoghiren, said, “The visit to the Momodus is an acceptance of
culpability by police. Do police visit families of killed armed
robbers?” #FoodForThought.
ThePunch
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