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The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has requested the Enugu
State Government to institute a coroner’s inquest into the cause of
death of 51 strange corpses it discovered at the University of Nigeria
Teaching Hospital (UNTH), including one allegedly killed by men of the
Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), Enugu.
The NHRC made the request after a preliminary investigation of a
petition from the Enugu office of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO)
last year, accusing officials of SARS, Enugu, of engaging in the
extra-judicial killing of Chukuma Iheizie, a 30 year old male allegedly
killed by one Bolu of SARS.
NHRC’s Chief Press Secretary, Fatima Agwai Mohammed, said in a
statement issued in Abuja on Friday that, in line with the commission’s
Standing Order and Rules of Procedure, it “discovered additional human
remains of about fifty young men (with red marker on them) at the same
mortuary where Chukwuma Ihezie’s body was deposited”
The commission particularly asked the state’s Chief Judge to ensure the
conduct of the coroner’s inquest with a view to unraveling the cause of
the death of the 51 corpses.
Culled from Thisday
Culled from Thisday
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