Ikyase Chia out of the vehicle and started beating him with the head of their guns
and the next thing they heard, were two gun shots. They saw the police officers
bundling Ikyase Chia into their van in an unconscious state and in a pool of blood,
the officers covered him with fresh leaves and drove off to Benue State Police
Command Headquarters Makurdi.
They continued trailing the Police officers until they got to the police headquarters.
When the Police officers discovered that they were being followed, they went to the
Plaintiffs’ village and laid siege for some days, they ransacked their houses and
brutally beat some of the victim’s relatives.
The Plaintiffs state that they went to the police headquarters to ask for their father's
whereabouts and the Police officers refused to attend to them. Later they got
information from a Good Samaritan that their father has been deposited in a morgue
at the Federal Medical Center Makurdi by one Inspector Yankyaa and the officers
are concealing to remove the corpse. They immediately filed an application before
the Chief Magistrate Court for an order for the release of the corpse to their family
and the order was granted.
That upon inquiries on the unlawful killing of their father, they got an information
that the Benue State Ministry of Justice advised that the deceased be interrogated
based on the report by one Zaki Nduul Agwar. Rather than the Police officers
interrogating the deceased, they decided to kill him.
That they wrote a Letter of complaint through their Attorney demanding
compensation for the unlawful killing of their father, but the Defendants refused and
or neglected to meet their demands and no proper investigation into the case was has
been carried out till date.
That the deceased was 46 years old before his death, married to four (4) wives and
had thirteen (13) children. Since his death, it has become impossible for the family
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