A 17 year-old boy named Callistus
Chidiebere Ede was on Monday brutally killed by members of the Enugu State
Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA for throwing away refuse with an
unauthorized bag.
The mother of the boy, Mrs Ede David confirmed this to reporters that
she sent the boy to throw the waste away as she got ready to go to the market.
She said: “I was preparing to go to market to sell my food that morning,
so he left with the waste in our wheel‑barrow for disposal. While I was going
out, I heard noise from the area where my son went to dispose refuse, I then
asked my sister to take my stuff to the market while I proceeded to the dump
site to know why my son had not returned. When I got to the dump site five
hefty men were beating him. I approached them and asked why they were beating
him but none of them uttered a word.”
The woman continued amidst tears and revealed that when she asked her
son what he did, he said that he did nothing wrong and the men demanded that he
gets into their car and follow them but he insisted he did no wrong. While one
of the officials told her they were beating the boy because he refused arrest and
for not bagging the refuse in ESWAMA bag.
She said: I pleaded with them to allow him to go because he was writing
his Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, SSSCE, instead they should
arrest me since he was underaged and I was the one that sent him on the
mission, but they refused.”
She then started to narrate that she later told her boy to follow the
men and went home to get money to bail her boy but by the way back to the
ESWAMA office she saw her son laying on the road not moving.
Mrs Ede said: “I went back to the house and got some money and while
going to ESWAMA office, I saw somebody lying on the road along Abakpa timber
market but on getting closer I saw that the person was my son. When I stopped I
raised alarm and people came out in their numbers and rushed him to a nearby
private hospital, where he was confirmed dead at about 3:30pm Monday.”
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This is unbearable. Nigerians are watching to know what Sullivan Chime will do with these overzealous and power drunk officials
ReplyDeleteIf the authority that handles cases of this nature decides to sweep this matter under the carpet,and let those so called officers go unprocecuted,the whirlwind of the Almighty will blow them out of creation
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad.the heavty men and the officials should be dealt with according to the law.am also sure this boys didn't go to school to appreciate the value of human being.
ReplyDeleteHow could people Βε̲̣ so wicked and Carlos! People have changed from human beings to human beast ! The boy did nothing wrong . Why treat him i̶̲̥̅̊n̶̲̥̅̊ such a humorous manner .. Law should take its course !!
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