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Says son’s murder took away joy from the family
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Demands justice, punishment for the murderers
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Police get court order to further detain accomplice, pending Reps probe
Aondover Tyowase (Abuja), Abubakar Abdullahi, in Lafia
There is no-end yet in sight, to ensure justice for the late Terhile Timothy Achinya, a final year student of the Mustapha Agwei Polytechnic Lafia who was allegedly murdered and his corps donated to the Federal University Lafia by suspected military personnel.
While the Nasarawa State Police Command says it has obtained a court permit to detain one Samuel Ejembi, a major suspected killer of Tehile, the father of the deceased, Mr Huer Achinya told Citizenship Daily that “all I want is justice for my innocent son as deterrent to military and institutional inhuman behaviour”.
As of press time, military authorities were yet to react to the allegation which indicted troops for complicity in the dastardly murder of the late Terhile Achinya.
The Public Relations Officer,(PRO) of the Nasarawa state Police Command, Ramhan Nansel told our correspondent that the continued detention of the suspects on the order of court is to ensure thorough investigation before their prosecution and trial.
The PPRO said apart from the police, other government institutions have also opened an investigation after receiving petitions on the incident.
“The command has arrested the suspect and embarked on investigation for prosecution but due to intervention by the National Assembly, particularly the House of Representatives, the command sought the order of court to detain the suspect to allow for further investigation before prosecution to avoid a situation whereby he would be prosecuted while another investigation is ongoing on similar incident.”
The PPRO said the command is determined to ensure that justice is applied to all parties in the alleged murder incident.
The aged father of the deceased, aside the bitterness expressed by the late Timothy’s widow and family members, in sober and mournful mood told our correspondent that his son’s death took away the joy in the family and has thrown his loved ones into an unimaginable anguish and pain.
He recalled that his late son had called days to his final papers to announce that an Engineer was about to be made in the family and that he would capture the world in his field of study.
Pa Achinya maintained that consoling the widow and children following the gruesome murder of late Timothy will be a tall challenge, adding that his son was a peaceful and loving soul that could not hurt even a fly.
He expressed concerns that the military that is paid with taxpayers money to protect lives and property will resort to brutal killing of the same people they are paid to protect.
He called on the judiciary and the military authorities to address the rising cases of maltreatment and murder of innocent Nigerians under any guise.
Debunking possibilities of his late son’s involvement in any illicit behaviour , Mr Achinya said , “that is not my son, he could not have done that. I know him so well and I know what he can do”.
He continued, “ Let the law take its course. Let us even admit without conceding that he did something wrong, is what the military did the best ? Do they have the right to take somebody’s life as they wished”, he alleged.
“I want justice for Timothy, look at his wife and kids, very young wife and small kids, what will you tell his kids when they grow up that happened to their father. Will you tell them that the military just killed him and donated his body to a hospital? What are you putting on the minds of the children, that in their country the military can just kill you and have the temerity to donate your corpse to a university anatomy department and they will just start tearing the body for practicals? This is unacceptable and there must be justice”.
“I saw his corpse myself torn by the anatomy department and I was wondering how that could happen. How can anybody accept this? No no no, the military and the Police and the court should stand up and end this behaviour, lawlessness and zero regards for human beings“.
“My son won’t come back to life, but there must be justice. The perpetrators should be brought to book. This country belongs to all of us and I have instructed my lawyer to get to the root of this matter.
“I understand they have made some arrests and I am surprised that they have not arrested the people at the anatomy department of federal university in Lafia who tore my son just because his corpse was tagged as that of a cultist. Even if he was, which he was not, was the university supposed to do that ?
“His soul will not rest until everyone involved in my son’s death is brought to book, the university inclusive. The university should be invited to help in the investigation, because I am feeling perhaps the university has been working with the military to perpetrate this evil for some time.”
“So let there be justice and compensation that will help the widow and kid’s upbringing. He was the breadwinner and now he is no more because the military wasted him while he was arriving to write his final papers. No No No please”.
Citizenship Daily reports that the late Achinya was allegedly killed by soldiersand his corpse deposited at the anatomy department of the federal university Lafia, but on police directive after conducting an autopsy, they later released the corpse to the deceased family for burial.
Efforts by our Correspondent to hear from the head of the anatomy department of the federal university Lafia proved abortive.
A source at the facility on condition of anonymity confirmed the deposition of the corpse at the department but explained that he was not aware of the reason behind the deposition of the corpse.
According to the source, not only the anatomy department, corpses are deposited at the university clinic for some hours and commutations are exchanged for the owner to come and claim them.
He said this process takes only hours depending on the communication between the institution and the family members of the deceased whom he said were mostly students and staff who met their death in the institution.
He maintained that on the corpse of the late polytechnic student at the anatomy department, he had no knowledge of the reason those that brought it had because the body had already been taken out of the department.
