According to “The Nation”, Former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday challenged the Nigeria Police to
provide reasonable explanations on the circumstances that led to the murder of
Prof. Ahmed Falaki of the Ahmad Bello University, Zaria.
This was disclosed in a statement by his media office in Abuja.
This was disclosed in a statement by his media office in Abuja.
The professor of Ahmadu
Bello University (ABU) Zaria was killed after he had been mistaken for a Boko
Haram insurgent.
The former Vice President
said the explanation given by the police on the circumstances that led to the
death of Prof. Falaki, is an embarrassment to the police.
According to Atiku, the
explanation that has been given so far on how Falaki died under police custody
falls short of logical assimilation.
The statement read: “It is particularly distasteful and
confounding that the police will confuse the identity of a personality such as
Prof. Falaki as a member of the Boko Haram sect.
“In
the manner that Prof. Falaki was killed, it is not in doubt that he had
believed that the police station was a sanctuary of safety for him from the
jungle justice he was receiving in the hands of locals, who had mistaken him
for a member of the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
“That
men of the Nigeria Police will stand and become witnesses to murder, and even
allow the police station to become the theatre of jungle justice, is a very
disturbing narrative about the circumstance in which Prof Falaki was killed.
“Such
a narrative is an embarrassment to the professional integrity of the Nigeria
Police and it is wholesomely unacceptable. The leadership of the Police must
commission a thorough investigation into the circumstances in which Prof.
Falaki was killed.”
Abubakar described the
professor’s death as a huge loss to to the intellectual community in Africa.
Details of Falaki’s death
are still sketchy. Initially, report had it that the police had killed the
victim believed to be a militant. Soon the police said that Prof Falaki had
been stabbed by the mob.
The Inspector General of
Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba has however ordered his Kano colleague to
investigate the killing of Prof Ahmed Falaki.
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