Delta killings: Group wants suspects tried

A Coalition of Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRGG), a coalition of several Civil Society Group on Human Rights Defenders and Good Governance, has called on the Delta state government to “expedite the process of the trial of all those indicted in the killing of innocent Nigerians in Ibusa Delta state in 2013.” National leader of the group, Richard Iyalla, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja yesterday, said it “is high time Nigerians heard the feelings, frustrations and pains about how the killings of innocent Nigerians is being handled by the Delta state judiciary.” The group also wants Senator Nwaoboshi invited for questioning on the matter.
It would be recalled that on June 20, 2013, a group of cult boys allegedly sponsored by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North Senatorial District of Delta state, at a time when he was the Delta state Peoples Democratic party chairman, killed a young okada rider, Zikara Saswad, and took away his motorcycle.
One of the cult boys, Uba Nonso, is still in detention in Ogwashi-Uku Medium Prisons in Delta state awaiting trial.
He said: “What is more worrisome in this matter is the fact that we are not hearing anything about this and the sponsor of this heinous crime isn’t paraded to answer for his crime instead, he was promoted to the National Assembly and lots of efforts are being made to sweep this under the carpet.
“If the third citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Bukola Saraki can be called upon and given 48 hours to answer on the Offa robbery, why can’t another that has more weighty allegations be invited or probably some persons are above the law in this country or is there anything we need to know, even though this crime was committed about 5 years ago “To this end, we are hereby calling on the judiciary to do the needful as justice delayed is justice denied and interrogate Senator Peter Nwaoboshi to immediately answer for this innocent lives and relinquish his position in the red chambers until he is exonerated as we cannot continue to have such elements as our legislators while the lives of youths are lost daily.”