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 9

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