Aluu 4: INC Vows To Ensure Justice

The Ijaw National Congress (INC), has vowed to ensure that justice is done over the recent killing of the four students of the University of Port Harcourt, by the Aluu community.

National President of the congres, Mr Joshua Benumesia who said this during the burial of Lloyd Toku, one of the students said that nothing short of justice would assuage the feelings of the organisation as well as the parents, over the gruesome murder of the four students.

The INC president who was represented by Mr Victor Burubu, however, said that the organisation would not encourage any move to avenge the death of the students.

While urging students of the institution to be calm, he assured that the congress was following the trial of those involved in the murder of the students.

Mr Benamesia also described as false, the erroneous impression peddled in some quarters that the students were thieves, stressing that the killers of the students decided to defame them to justify their action.

The father of the deceased, Mr Toku Mike, argued that apprehending the suspects and charging them to court was not enough, stressing that it was necessary for the culprits to be brought to book.

He said that he was satisfied that the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, had declared his son and his three friends innocent of the crime they were alleged to have committed. “Our prayer to God is for justice to be done. It is not just apprehending or arresting those behind the killings of our children, but they should be brought to book.”

“Let them also feel the pains they have brought to us,” he said.

He also stressed the need for the authority of the University of Port Harcourt to provide accommodation for students instead of allowing them to stay in Aluu.

Mr Toku Mike who is Assistant-Director, Presentation of Radio Rivers, regretted that no government official had visited the families to condole them over the gruesome murder of the students.