Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika Biringa, one of the four University
of Port Harcourt students lynched last week at Aluu community by a mob
spoke via telephone on a Channels TV program, and said that policemen
were present during the killings.
She expressed her
disappointment with the approach of the policemen who just looked on and
did nothing to stop the gruesome murder of the four boys.
She
said, “Eyewitnesses 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.
“And
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.”
She insisted that her son and his friends were not
robbers as claimed by the mob. “We don’t have security in this country.
We don’t just have and our children and wards are all over the country.
We are only living by God’s grace everyday, because this can happen to
anybody any day.
“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.”
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