Reps To Probe Killings Of Nigerians Students Abroad

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Reps To Probe Killings Of Nigerians Students Abroad

Adesuwa Tsanwww.thundergist.blogspot.com

— March 20, 2014

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Diaspora, Justice and Foreign Affairs to investigate indiscriminate killings of Nigerian students across the world and report back within two weeks.
This was sequel to a motion moved by the chairman of the House Committee on Diaspora, Hon Abike Dabiri- Erewa who raised it as a matter of urgent national importance during plenary yesterday.
The lawmaker had given a breakdown of Nigerian students that were killed under mysterious circumstances in Ghana, Russia, South Africa, Malaysia and the UAE. ‎
While leading the debate on the motion, she said: “The alarming increase in the number of Nigerian students being murdered abroad in search of education has made them an endangered species.
“In Ghana, four Nigerian students have been killed in mysterious circumstances in the last few months”, even as she informed her colleagues that in October 2013, 15-year-old Master Austine Ogukwe, an SS 3 Student of Ideal College Ghana, died mysteriously.
“In November, barely 26 days after Ogukwe’s death, two Nigerian students, Eddy and Charles of KNUS Federal University Accra, lost their lives during an excursion with their school; they claimed they got drowned.
“Only two weeks ago, Mr Godwin Ayogu, a 300-level Social Science student of University of Cape Coast Central Region was brutally killed on February 20, and his lifeless body was found on campus.”
She added that in Malaysia, the police killed one Tunde Adelabu from Ekiti State, a student of Lagenda University Nilai, Malaysia, and more than 80 Nigerian students are currently in danger in Malaysia according to reports with no intervention whatsoever from our embassy in Malaysia.
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