… Family asks for N20m
BY AGNES NWORIE, ABAKALIKI
THE Ebonyi Judicial Panel of Inquiries on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings has recommended adequate compensation to the family of the late police inspector who lost his life and manhood in the 2020 #EndSARS protest in Ebonyi State.
This followed a petition brought before it by Mrs. Dodeye and Godstime Omini Egu, wife and son of the late inspector, Egu Omini, whose manhood was cut off during #EndSARS protests in Abakaliki on October 26, 2020.
Delivering judgement on the matter, the Panel Chairman and immediate past Chief Judge of the state, Alloy Nwankwo, recommended the compensation to the family of the deceased to cater for the education of his four children.
The widow of the deceased said, “We are from Cross River State. On the 26th day of October 2020, my husband went to work and didn’t come back alive. He was working at Ekumenyi Central Police Station before his death.”
“I got a call to come to Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, that my husband was shot. The worst part of the pain was that I noticed that my husband’s manhood was missing,” she added.
His son, Godstime, said the family demanded N20 million compensation to enable him and his younger ones to continue their education.
“We are four. I am 18 years old, in SS3. I am supposed to take WAEC examination this year but there is no money to register. Nobody to assist me financially to register. I feel very happy about the panel’s judgement today. I know that my Lord will never fail me. I know he will answer my prayers,” he added.
