By Anne Osemekeh, Abuja
The Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Benneth Igweh, has ordered an investigation into the death of a student at Veritas University in Abuja.
This was made known in a statement on Monday by the FCT Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh. “The CP has directed the Deputy Commissioner in charge of CID to conduct a discreet investigation on the matter. Further development will be communicated”, the statement read in part.
TheFact Daily reports that sources in the school had said the student, a 100-level computer science student identified as Joshua Èjuojo Daniel-Ejigbo, died on Tuesday night after he slumped while exercising at the campus gymnasium and started foaming in the mouth at about 9 p.m.
However, it was later discovered that he had five stab wounds on his back and his ribs, a development that was hidden from the family.
The university was said to have called his father to inform him about the incident of slumping and dying around 11 p.m. on the same day.
A human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, who is representing the family, disclosed that the parents of the deceased student suspected foul play and gross negligence.
Family sources, speaking further, alleged that they found five stab wounds on the back and rib side of the deceased student.
“The school took him on the stretcher to Fatima Hospital, Mortuary, Bwari, before we transferred the body to the mortuary at the National Hospital in Abuja.
“The body was prepared and handed over to the parent as if nothing happened.
“When we turned him over, blood started coming out of his mouth”, a family source said.
It was at this point, it was learnt, that the Police were sent a distress complaint on the suspicious killing of the student.
