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Daily Independent Online. * Policemen held in Owerri over student�s
death
By Ben Duru Correspondent, Owerri � The Imo
State Police Command says it has apprehended the trigger-happy policemen who
shot, killed and buried a final year biochemistry student of the Just as
protesting students of the university on Friday demanded the release of the
corpse of their slain colleague to the parents for a decent burial or there would
be no truce. �A statement signed by the Command�s spokesman,
Mr Chinedu Okoh, a superintendent of police, said the men were picked up
following investigations conducted into the killing two Saturday�s ago at Orji
area of the Owerri metropolis. �The statement is coming on the heels of a
meeting held last weekend between the students union leaders and the Deputy
Governor, Chief Ebere Udeagu, where the students were advised to lay down their
arms. The
students, who continued the peaceful demonstration they started on Monday, had
clashed with police team comprising both mobile and conventional policemen at
the Wetheral Roundabout, who dispersed them with several rounds of tear gas. The tear
gas, which was indiscriminately used, saw commuters and passersby, as well as
students, suffering, especially pupils of a nearby primary school at This was
said to have led to several of the primary school pupils receiving injuries as
they stumbled over themselves to escape the tear gas. �Udeagu complimented the union leaders for the
orderly way they have conducted themselves throughout the period of their
grievances, saying that they should not allow themselves to be used by
detractors as instruments of unrest. �According to the deputy governor, government
would do everything to get to the root of the matter but warned that government
would only wade in if the students do not resort to violence and wanton
destruction of property. �He assured them that the present
administration was all out to ensure that justice prevails in every situation,
stating that government would not fold its arms to see any form of injustice
meted out to anybody within the state. |
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