By Francis Sadhere
Human Rights Organization, Centre for the Vulnerable And the Underprivileged, (CENTREP), has condemned the gruesome murder of Mr. Jimoh Latif Babatunde, a 400 level computer science student of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, (FUPRE) by unknown gunmen recently outside the premises of the University, calling on the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba to investigate the murder of the student.
The group who stated this in a press statement signed by Barrister Oghenejabor Ikimi, Executive Director, CENTREP and made available to National Reformer, described the killing of the student as a barbaric act.
The statement read; “The attention of members of the Centre For The Vulnerable And The Underprivileged, (CENTREP), have been drawn to the gruesome murder of Mr. Jimoh Latif Babatunde, a 400 level computer science student of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, (FUPRE) by unknown gunmen recently outside the premises of the University and we condemn same in its entirety as a barbaric act.”
“We are calling on the acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba to immediately order an independent and an unbiased comprehensive investigation into the above blue murder in a bid to apprehending the fleeing culprits and prosecuting them for murder in the law court as justice delayed is justice denied,” Ikimi added.
Ikimi said a student source had “confirmed to us in the course of our private inquiry into the incident that the deceased who is the only child of his Parents had left his hostel at about 9:00pm on the fateful day to purchase packets of indomie and eggs as he was hungry.”
“The source added that after the said purchases the deceased was on his way to his hostel when he was shot on the neck by unknown gunmen few metres away from the gate of the student hostel manned by two mobile policemen. The source further informed us that the corpse of the deceased was found in a pool of his blood the next day while still clinging to the polythene bag containing his purchases of packets of indomie and eggs,” the statement added.
