CALLOUSNESS Some policemen are being investigated for allegedly killing innocent people and selling their bodies for N11,000 each
A sergeant attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Cross River State, Anthony Idoko, has been accused of killing a 300 level Accounting student of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Derek Maurice. Idoko also allegedly sold Maurice body to the Anatomy Department of the university.
The allegation is contained in a petition by the mother of the deceased, Mrs Eno Maurice, to the Inspector General of Police and copied the Attorney General of the Federation, the Cross River State governor as well as the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), among others.
Speaking on the matter, the Zone 6 Public Relations Officer, DSP Ibrahim Tasiu, said the matter had been referred to the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) and that “we are waiting for their expert opinion on the matter”. But the petitioner said: “My son was not of questionable character and had never been detained in any of the police stations or had any matter with the police anywhere.
“Sergeant Anthony Idoko of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad plotted against my son, Derek, got him arrested on the 16th of April, 2014, and took him to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Office in Diamond Hill, Calabar, where he murdered him.” The following day, Maurice and five others were allegedly executed and their remains were traced to the Anatomy Department of the University of Calabar, where each of the body was said to have been sold at N11,000.
“I searched for my son everywhere including the SARS Office where we went for three days. The search came due to a statement made by Ekpeyong Akom, a policeman and friend to Sgt Anthony that my son ‘had an encounter with the police. “It was at Zone 6 that the whole truth came out through an eyewitness who was part of those arrested that night but was lucky to have escaped being killed.
The eyewitness said after they were arrested and kept in SARS office, Sgt Idoko later brought a young man who was identified as Derek,” she added. Mrs Maurice said her source told her a SARS official came later with torch light and separated the suspects into two groups and that about 12:00am on April 1, the group of six, which included her son, was taken out with their hands tied to their back.
“According to the eyewitness who was later brought before the AIG to testify, when SARS official came back that night, one of them approached the detainees in their office, pointed his torchlight to his blood stained cloth and told them ‘when you go back (released), do thanksgiving to God because others who were taken out have been sent on a long journey,” she narrated.
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A sergeant attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Cross River State, Anthony Idoko, has been accused of killing a 300 level Accounting student of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Derek Maurice. Idoko also allegedly sold Maurice body to the Anatomy Department of the university.
The allegation is contained in a petition by the mother of the deceased, Mrs Eno Maurice, to the Inspector General of Police and copied the Attorney General of the Federation, the Cross River State governor as well as the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), among others.
Speaking on the matter, the Zone 6 Public Relations Officer, DSP Ibrahim Tasiu, said the matter had been referred to the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) and that “we are waiting for their expert opinion on the matter”. But the petitioner said: “My son was not of questionable character and had never been detained in any of the police stations or had any matter with the police anywhere.
“Sergeant Anthony Idoko of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad plotted against my son, Derek, got him arrested on the 16th of April, 2014, and took him to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Office in Diamond Hill, Calabar, where he murdered him.” The following day, Maurice and five others were allegedly executed and their remains were traced to the Anatomy Department of the University of Calabar, where each of the body was said to have been sold at N11,000.
“I searched for my son everywhere including the SARS Office where we went for three days. The search came due to a statement made by Ekpeyong Akom, a policeman and friend to Sgt Anthony that my son ‘had an encounter with the police. “It was at Zone 6 that the whole truth came out through an eyewitness who was part of those arrested that night but was lucky to have escaped being killed.
The eyewitness said after they were arrested and kept in SARS office, Sgt Idoko later brought a young man who was identified as Derek,” she added. Mrs Maurice said her source told her a SARS official came later with torch light and separated the suspects into two groups and that about 12:00am on April 1, the group of six, which included her son, was taken out with their hands tied to their back.
“According to the eyewitness who was later brought before the AIG to testify, when SARS official came back that night, one of them approached the detainees in their office, pointed his torchlight to his blood stained cloth and told them ‘when you go back (released), do thanksgiving to God because others who were taken out have been sent on a long journey,” she narrated.
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