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Hundreds of
Nigerians on Wednesday marched to the Consulate General of Ghana office,
located at Ikeja, Lagos State, to register their displeasure over the brutal
killing of the Nigerian student, Godwin Ayogu.
The deceased, who was schooling in Ghana, was
believed to have been murdered by his roommate in the school.
The peaceful
protest was organized by Coalitions of Civil Liberty Organisation.
According to the
group, the reason for the protest was to draw the attention of the High Commission
to the manner the case was being handled by the Ghanaian Police.
The grieving
mother of the boy, Mrs. Gladys Ayogu, who was among the protesters, cried bitterly
and said: “It was my late son’s roommate who first called to inform me about
the death of my son, but I was suspicious of that call.
“Godwin is the
strength of my youth! I laboured to raise him to that stage, where do you
expect me to start from now?
“Ayogu was killed
a year before he could complete his programme at the university. We took him
there when his chemistry result was withheld in Nigeria. And now the High Commission is telling me they
are still working on the death of my son.”
The group in
their protest letter, submitted to the Deputy Consular-General, Mr. Isaac
Essilifie, indicated that the Ghanaian Government had been given two weeks to
fish out killers of Ayogu and prosecute the alleged perpetrators, failing
which there would be another round of protest.
Comrade Dandy Eze
of Path of Peace Initiatives, said: “I believe the University authority knows
the killers and their accomplices, but yet they refused to prosecute them. We
want justice for the death of the innocent boy who was killed in his prime.”
Eze blamed the
Nigerian Government for the death of the deceased, stressing that if the
Nigerian educational sector had been developed, no parents would be forced to
send their children out of the country to study.
He added: “If our
educational sector is okay, what would prompt parents to send their kids
to foreign land, where they are being killed like chickens!”
Comrade Kenny
Bakare of the Civil Liberty Organisation said: “What happened in Ghana is a
serious issue, which needed to be sorted out between the two countries.”
He continued: “If the young boy happened to be alive today,
what contributions do you think this boy would have brought to Nigeria? We
learnt that Ghana motto is ‘Justice and Freedom’ and that is what we are
demanding, justice!”
Mr. Isaac
Essilifie said the Ghanaian Government was working on the matter and would leave
no stone unturned to unravel the murder and prosecute the killers of the boy.
He added: “Nigerian
and Ghana have good working relationship. We will not do anything as a country,
to mar the friendship that exists between us.”
Godwin Ayogu was allegedly murdered
by his roommate, Abatsi Gwesu alias ‘Enay’, at the University of Cape
Coast, Ghana.
The 300-level economic
student was stabbed to death by his attackers, who tied his hands and feet,
disemboweled him and later dropped his corpse in front of his hostel, in the
seaside of their main University.
It was alleged that
his money was collected from him for safe keeping by Gwesu, a 400-level music
student. But up till the night of his murdered, Ayogu was yet to pay his school
fees because his roommate allegedly refused to return his money.
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