1. That on the 14th of August, 2015 they accompanied their father Ikyase
Chia ( the deceased ) to a mortuary in Gboko, Benue State Nigeria to
remove the corpse of their grand father Late Pa Shiorbo Chia for burial
when members of the Nigeria Police Force ( the Security apparatus of the
Respondents burst into the place.
2. That the agents of the Nigerian Police arrested the deceased, beat him up
and put him in their Hilux.
3. Furthermore, they handcuffed the deceased ( who was curious as to why
he was being arrested ) and dragged him to their unmarked vehicle and
sped off; after shooting sporadically into the air to scare off any intruder
4. The brothers of the deceased, Tarzaa Shiorbo, Teryila Shiorbo who were
at the scene of the arrest used their vehicle to trail the Police Officers.
5. That while the Police Vehicle, Ikyase Chia was seated in between four (4)
Police Officers who were fully armed with AK 47 Riffles.
6. That when the officers got to a village called Abiem near Makurdi the
Benue State Capital, they stopped at one lonely junction and ordered
Ikyase Chia out of the vehicle
7. That as Ikyase Chia was struggling to stand and go down from the Vehicle,
one of the officers forcefully dragged him out and thereafter started
beating him, kicking and hitting him with the head of his gun
8. That two other officers joined in the beating and kicking of Ikyase Chia
and when Ikyase Chia fell down, they heard two gun shots before the
Police officers bundled him in an unconscious state in the pool of blood
to their (police) vehicle again; covered him with fresh leaves and drove
off to Benue State Police Command Headquarters, Makurdi.
9. That Tarza and Teryila who had been trailing the police also continued
without the police knowing until they got to the Police Headquarters
Makurdi
10.That when some of the applicants and other family members went to the
Police Headquarters to ask for their father’s where about, the police to
their greatest surprise refused to attend to them or disclose the
whereabout of Ikyase Chia.
11.That it was later the applicants got a clue from a Good Samaritan at the
Police Station which led to the discovery of the corpse of Ikyase Chia in
the morgue at the Federal Medical Centre Makurdi.
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