A
pretty Nigerian undergraduate who left her parent's house to meet an
Alhaji who is a philanthropist in their area for help and scholarship,
has died mysteriously as her parents are set for battle with alleged
killer.
The late undergraduate, Joy
As at the time of writing this story, the death of Miss Joy Odama, a
mass communication undergraduate in one of the tertiary institution in
the country, is still shrouded in mysterious circumstances.
Investigation reveals that on December 18th, 2016, the deceased in
company of her friend, Elizabeth had gone to one Alhaji Usman I. Adamu,
who is believed to be a philanthropist, because he assists indigent
students, with scholarship to complete their studies.
According to the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Philomina Odama,
“when it was my daughter’s turn to see Alhaji Adamu, she told him that
she had come to seek for an assistance to continue with her education.
But the ‘philanthropist’ told her to come along with her mother to the
house.
"My daughter told me this and I decided to go there with her,
since the quarters where the Alhaji lives were in the same neighborhood
where we reside. I equally met other people in the house seeking for the
same assistance from this Alhaji Adamu."
According to her, when the late Joy had introduced her mother, “the
Alhaji promised that he would support her daughter in school and also
promised the mother a job at the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence
Corps (NSCDC).
“Two days later, on the evening of 20th of December, the Alhaji
called my daughter, and told her that his house help is seriously sick
and that she should please come and help him look after her while he
goes to look for a doctor.
“He also said that he has called other girls (that is some of
the girls we saw in the house the previous day). My daughter informed me
about this and I allowed her to go. That was the last time i saw my
daughter alive.”
Mrs. Odama further narrated that she called the daughter later and
she told her that she was in the company of other girls in Alhaji’s
house and that she would soon be back.
According to her, “About an hour later, she was not yet back, I
called her but she did not pick the call. I called her several times
and there was no response.
"Then I called Alhaji’s number, but he too did not pick. I
became worried. I continued calling her number and that of the Alhaji
every now and then and the Alhaji eventually picked his call. However,
to my surprise, he pretended not to know who l was or who my daughter
was.
“When I pressed further, he replied, ‘Did anything happen to
Joy?’, as if he did not know where Joy was. And I knew all was not well.
"We were about going to Karmo Police Station, to report the
matter when two police officers came to my house and told us (myself and
my husband) to follow them to the station. On getting to the station
(Karmo Police station), the DPO informed us that all the girls that went
to Alhaji’s house were all unconscious; that one is not responding to
treatment, while others are responding to treatment.
"The next day, which was December 22, 2016, I and some of my
relatives and a lawyer, including a close family friend who works with
an NGO went to the police station again. That was when they informed me
that my daughter was dead and has been taken to the mortuary.
"Our lawyer asked the DPO if the Alhaji has been arrested. But
the DPO said bluntly, ‘As far as he is concerned, no crime has been
committed and that my daughter died a natural death and that he cannot
arrest the Alhaji.”
In a petition on the matter, an Abuja-based nongovernmental
organisation (NGO), Basic Rights Enlightenment Foundation and the family
have cried out to the office of the senate president, the House of
Representatives, the Human Rights Commission, Inspector General of
Police as well as the Department of State Services to hasten action in
unraveling circumstances leading to the death of Miss Joy Odama with a
view to bringing the culprits to justice.
According to a petition addressed to the Nigerian Union of
Journalists (NUJ), the biggest worry of the family of the late Joy and
the NGO is that the prime suspect in the murder of Miss Odama, is still
working free without attempt by the police to bring him to book.
Another source of worry to the petitioners is that the remains of
the late Joy had already been embalmed before she was put in the
morgue.
“The DPO directed us to the Federal Medical Centre Airport Road
Abuja and on getting to the mortuary at the hospital; we discovered
that my daughter’s body has been embalmed,” Mrs. Odama said.
According to her, she has laboured seriously to see Joy and her
younger sister through school before she was murdered in what looked
like a ritual killing, taken to the mortuary at the Federal Medical
Centre, Airport Road Abuja and embalmed before she was informed by the
police at the Karmo Police station that her daughter was dead.
Source: The Leadership
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