Police Watch UNIPORT Murder Take Place

The mother of Chiadika, Chinwe Biringa, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were murdered on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community, says policemen were present during the killings.

In an interview during a public affairs programme on Channels Television, Chinwe said, “I was disappointed with the way and manner the policemen looked on and did nothing to stop the dreadful murder of the four boys.”

She said that eyewitness accounts revealed that policemen were at the scene of the incident. Besides, policemen at the police station confirmed to one of the bereaved parents who visited them that policemen were there.

“The explanation they gave was that they were overwhelmed by the crowd and that they had insufficient bullets in their guns and all that thrash to confront the crowd.

But those people were only with sticks not with guns. If they really wanted to work, they would have worked. If they had done what the Joint Task Force did by firing warning shots into the air when they wanted to collect the corpses, things wouldn’t have gone awry.”

“God knows best because nothing stops Him from doing something extraordinary to save them. But may God judge all those who had a hand in the killings,” she said.