One week after, the outrage sparked by the
gruesome murder of eight-year old Victory Nmezu by a suspected ritualist
continued to reverberate.
A concerned, conscientious and crossed public have
continued to protest police’s complicity in the escape of Ifeanyi Dike, the
suspect, right under the nose of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department (SCIID), barely five hours after he was paraded at the
headquarters of Rivers State Police Command, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.
The circumstance
of the escape has woven a web conspiracy around the Friday, August 18, 2017,
tragedy, even as the distraught mother of the deceased is calling on the
authority to bring her daughter’s killer to book, by all means.
On the
day women and youths in the neighbourhood protested the escape of the suspect
from Police custody, Saturday Sun was
at the residence of the bereaved family, at No. 8 Eliozu Close in Obio/Akpor
Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The
Nmezu compound was swarming with sympathisers dressed in black who rained
curses on the family of the suspect and those that aided his escape from police
custody.
In the
throes of lamentation, Mrs Dike Lucy Nmezu, mother of the victim, had only one
message for the authorities: “I want Ifeanyi, dead or alive, to face the wrath
of the law.”
The case
has far more complexities than it appears at face value. The deceased, the last
child of the family was a pupil of Divine Heroes Academy where the suspect
teaches besides being a part-time 200 Level Physics undergraduate of the
University of Port Harcourt, Choba.
The
victim and her alleged killer are kith and kin–the Nmezu and Dike families are
related from the same village, Ochii Ogwa, in Mbaitolu Local Government Area of
Imo State.
- Sun News
No comments:
Post a Comment