THE family of Mr. Terry Chinedu has petitioned the Edo State Police demanding the arrest and prosecution of one Mr. Madu Kachi over the mysterious death of their kinsman in the Edo State capital of Benin on March 23.
In a petition by the family lawyer, Mr. Olayiwola Afolabi to the Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr.Mohammed DanMallam, the brother Mr. Onye Lucky alleged that Terry was murdered at a hotel in Benin, under mysterious circumstances.
Afolabi wrote that there is an urgent need to investigate and charge to court Madu and his cohorts, based on the doctrine of last seen in criminal law having lured the deceased to a hotel and allegedly murdered him in cold blood.
It reads: “On Saturday, 23rd of March, Terry Chinedu, received several calls from a colleague of his, one Kachi Madu, asking him to come to Kito Hotel in GRA to swim.
He added that his client’s brother who was with his girlfriend when the several calls came told his female companion that his colleague was calling him to come to the hotel to swim.
The petitioners further alleged that at about 7 pm of the same day, the father of the victim “received a phone call from the said Madu, who told him to come to the CIC Gate Hospital at Aduwawa, that his son was in the hospital,” where he met his son lying lifeless on the hospital bed.
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Lucky said that at the divisional police station, the suspect denied ever calling the deceased until he was later confronted with hard evidence of his call.
He charged: “The case is an inside job because the suspect and his sister are working in the same bank and there is the need to download the call log also of his sister and the suspect.”
The Edo State Police spokesman, Mr. Chidi Nwabuzor who confirmed receipt of the petition, said copies have been served on the Command.
Nwanbuzor, a deputy superintendent of police said: “Yes, the Command is in receipt of the petition. Just yesterday, somebody brought it. I believe the authority will soon assign it for investigation.”