Judicial Inquiry at the sitting in Benin yesterday
Former Commissioner of Agriculture, Edo State, Dr. Johnson
Erimafa, today, asked the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for
victims of SARS and related abuses for compensation to the tune of
N1 billion for the death of his only son murdered in cold blood by
police officer in 2003.
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Dr. Erimafa, a retired Mathematics lecturer from the Ambrose
Alli University and ex-Commissioner of Agriculture during the Navy
Captain Anthony Onyearegbulem administration, told the panel that
his son, Paul Erimafa,18, was brutally murdered by a happy-trigger
police officer, Sergeant Kalijaye when he was on his way to watch
the Big Brother Africa in a cyber cafe close to his house.
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Erimafa who chronicled the incident, said the pathetic aspect of
it was that the killing took place right at the front of the Chief
Justice’s house.
“So, police abducted him and took him round, they wanted to
smuggle him into the State House, of course I don’t know for
whatever reason they wanted to smuggle him to State House but the
police at the State House did not allow them enter.
“So, they started carrying him about. You can imagine, from
about 8:30pm that they abducted him, until 3am, they shot him dead
in the front of the Chief Justice’s house, just opposite the deputy
governor’s house.
“You can imagine, it is supposed to be a safe area where you
don’t expect anybody to harass a child or any person but
unfortunately, right in the front of Chief Judge’s house, the then
Justice Constance Momoh.
“He was accused of nothing rather they said he was being
suspected. What do you expect them to say? He was alone, he has no
knife and gun but right there, they fired five shots, two into the
air, three others on him but the first two, because they came out
and in the front of the CJ’s house, you have the CJ’s security
details, about eight of them, four police and four civil security
details and these people were looking at them, the way the whole
things were going.
“He said I will shoot you and the boy asked why will he shoot
him?
“Then, when he wanted to shoot him, the boy struggled with him
and the boy forced him to throw away the gun and the boy raised
alarm which drew the attention of the security details who were at
the CJ’s house who asked what is the matter? So, my son started
telling them the story.
“The police now took his gun, and fired him on his two legs and
the boy fell immediately and he was crying.
“The policeman abandoned him and ran to the State CID to invite
his patrol team.
“As at then, the boy was already groaning in pains. So, the
policeman said so you are still alive? He fired him in his
abdomen.
“You can see that the man really wanted the boy to be dead”, he
said.
He said that his late son who was about gaining admission into
the university to study political science had it in mind to be the
president of the nation when he grows up but his dream has been
truncated by the trigger happy police officer for no reason.
He said though no amount of money can compensate for the loss of
his son, which eventually led to his wife divorcing him, but that
the panel should prevail on the government to pay him the sum of
N1billion to help assuage his pains.
Judicial Inquiry at the sitting in Benin yesterday
Former Commissioner of Agriculture, Edo State, Dr. Johnson
Erimafa, today, asked the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for
victims of SARS and related abuses for compensation to the tune of
N1 billion for the death of his only son murdered in cold blood by
police officer in 2003.
Dr. Erimafa, a retired Mathematics lecturer from the Ambrose
Alli University and ex-Commissioner of Agriculture during the Navy
Captain Anthony Onyearegbulem administration, told the panel that
his son, Paul Erimafa,18, was brutally murdered by a happy-trigger
police officer, Sergeant Kalijaye when he was on his way to watch
the Big Brother Africa in a cyber cafe close to his house.
Erimafa who chronicled the incident, said the pathetic aspect of
it was that the killing took place right at the front of the Chief
Justice’s house.
“So, police abducted him and took him round, they wanted to
smuggle him into the State House, of course I don’t know for
whatever reason they wanted to smuggle him to State House but the
police at the State House did not allow them enter.
“So, they started carrying him about. You can imagine, from
about 8:30pm that they abducted him, until 3am, they shot him dead
in the front of the Chief Justice’s house, just opposite the deputy
governor’s house.
“You can imagine, it is supposed to be a safe area where you
don’t expect anybody to harass a child or any person but
unfortunately, right in the front of Chief Judge’s house, the then
Justice Constance Momoh.
“He was accused of nothing rather they said he was being
suspected. What do you expect them to say? He was alone, he has no
knife and gun but right there, they fired five shots, two into the
air, three others on him but the first two, because they came out
and in the front of the CJ’s house, you have the CJ’s security
details, about eight of them, four police and four civil security
details and these people were looking at them, the way the whole
things were going.
“He said I will shoot you and the boy asked why will he shoot
him?
“Then, when he wanted to shoot him, the boy struggled with him
and the boy forced him to throw away the gun and the boy raised
alarm which drew the attention of the security details who were at
the CJ’s house who asked what is the matter? So, my son started
telling them the story.
“The police now took his gun, and fired him on his two legs and
the boy fell immediately and he was crying.
“The policeman abandoned him and ran to the State CID to invite
his patrol team.
“As at then, the boy was already groaning in pains. So, the
policeman said so you are still alive? He fired him in his
abdomen.
“You can see that the man really wanted the boy to be dead”, he
said.
He said that his late son who was about gaining admission into
the university to study political science had it in mind to be the
president of the nation when he grows up but his dream has been
truncated by the trigger happy police officer for no reason.
He said though no amount of money can compensate for the loss of
his son, which eventually led to his wife divorcing him, but that
the panel should prevail on the government to pay him the sum of
N1billion to help assuage his pains.