Reps’ C’ttee Orders Release of Autopsy Details for UniPort Student Slain by Police

Damilola Oyedele in Abuja

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has ordered the Nigeria Police to release details of the autopsy report performed on a slain undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Mr. Peter Chibuzor Ofurum.

Ofurum, a final year student of accountancy, was allegedly felled by police bullets on April 11, 2016, during the protests by students against the tuition fees hike by the university.

His family had written a petition to the House of Representatives demanding justice for their slain son.

The Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, at a hearing recently also further directed the police to conclude its investigation and Pres et the outcome at the next hearing date scheduled for October.

The lawyer to the Ofurum’s family, Mr. Amobi Nzelu, in the petition, explained that the students were involved in peaceful protest over the increment of fees, and the no fees, no exam policy of the university.

He alleged that the protest emailed a peaceful one until the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ndowa Lale invited the Assistant Commissioner on Police in charge of operations for a private meeting in his office, and that in the later ensuing stampede, “the police shot and killed late Peter Chibuzor Ofurum…from the back while trying to flee”.
Nzelu added that the police was present from the beginning of the protest, and wet calm before the meeting with the VC, can’t called for the suspension of the VC while investigations continue into the murder.

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