The mother
of Mr. Chiadika Biringa, one of the four students of the University of
Port-Harcourt killed last week under controversial circumstances has petitioned
the senate demanding justice for her son and others killed.
In a petition addressed to the senate Mrs.
Chinwe Biringa debunked allegations that her son was killed for the theft of a
blackberry phone and a laptop computer, affirming that her son had possessed a
blackberry phone and laptop computer since his primary school days.
Mrs. Biringa whose husband is a very senior
staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC in the petition
completely exonerated her son from theft claimed that her enquiries showed that
her son and the other three victims were on their way to lecture and were waylaid
in what was a premeditated act.
Calling for justice to be meted out, she said:
‘’My name is Mrs. Chinwe Biringa. I am the mother of Mr. Chiadika Biringa, a
second year student of Theater Arts at the University of Port Harcourt
(UNIPORT). My husband is a very senior staff officer at the Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
‘’My son
turned 20 years old this week and we gave him pocket money to celebrate it with
his friends. On Friday morning, we were called by my second son, also a UNIPORT
student, that all was not well and he was hearing bad rumours that villagers at
ALUU, the host community of UNIPORT had murdered four students. I immediately
rushed to the scene only to see my son’s dead body being taken away naked to a
mortuary in UNIPORT Teaching Hospital. I could not believe my eyes and collapsed.
‘’What did my son do? What did the other three
young men who died with him do? First, we heard that the four students were
alleged to have stolen a Blackberry phone and a laptop computer. This could not
be further from the truth. My son has had a Blackberry phone and in fact a
laptop computer since he was in primary school. No way could my son steal such
a common thing as a cell phone which every village woman now owns.
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