Police exhume Abia varsity Law student’s corpse

BY ANAYO OKOLI
UMUAHIA — THE Abia State Police Command has ordered that the body of a fourth year Law student of Abia State University be exhumed.

He was alleged to have been killed and buried in a shallow grave by a cult group believed to be operating in the institution.

The student, simply called Obasi, whose father is said to be a legal practitioner in Umuahia, had been missing for sometime.

The officer in-charge of State Criminal Investigation Department, CID, of the Abia State Police Command, Mr. Patrick Garba, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, who confirmed the development, said his men had been dispatched to exhume the body somewhere in Uturu, the university town.

According to Garba, the matter was initially reported as a case of missing person, but in the course of investigation, the police stumbled on the fact that he was probably killed by a cult group.

The police were said to be working on a theory that he was being initiated into a cult group where in the process he sustained serious injury which led to his death which made the cult members to bury him in a shallow grave.

The CID boss said key suspects who confessed to have taken part in the act had been arrested and would help the police in their investigation.

He confirmed that his men had gone to exhume the body as they continue investigation into the matter.

Corroborating the CID boss, Police Commissioner, Ambrose Aisabor, who also spoke to Vanguard in a telephone interview confirmed the incident, saying: “My men have taken some people to the place. As I am talking to you, my men are there now to exhume the body. They left about one hour ago.

“My men have arrested some suspects to take them to where he was said to have been buried in a shallow grave.”

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