100 Nigerian Students Mysteriously Killed In Northern Cyprus Universities - NiDCOM
August 25, 2020
The
Nigerians in Diaspora Commission said on Monday that no fewer than 100
Nigerian students studying in Northern Cyprus have been killed between
2016 and 2020.
The commission lamented that the Nigerian students
were killed in mysterious circumstances while their assailants were
never prosecuted for the crime.
A statement on Monday by
NiDCOM said the 100 victims included 25-year-old Ibrahim Bello, son of
Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court.
“Other
victims include Kennedy Taomwabwa Dede, 28, student of Eastern
Mediterranean University killed on February 1, 2018; Walshak Augustine
Ngok, a student of Marine Engineering at Near East University, murdered
on April 19, 2019,” the statement said.
The statement, signed by
NiDCOM media officer, Gabriel Odu, was titled, “Death of Ibrahim Bello:
NiDCOM demands justice, urges students to avoid Northern Cyprus
universities.”
According to the statement, Justice Bello was at
the commission’s office in Abuja to plead with the Federal Government to
assist her in bringing the murderers of her son to justice.
Ibrahim,
a student at the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, was killed in
suspicious circumstances by unknown persons in October last year.
But
the authorities claimed the third year Civil Engineering student of
Girne American University in Girne (Kyrenia), committed suicide by
jumping from a seven-storey building.
Presenting a petition on
the alleged murder to the Chairman, NiDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in Abuja
on Monday, the bereaved mother said her demand for justice was not only
for her son but also for other Nigerian students who had died
mysteriously in the Girne American University Girne (Kyrenia), and other
institutions in Northern Cyprus.
NiDCOM said in its statement
that the judge narrated how the 25-year-old was allegedly murdered and
the act covered up by the authorities in Northern Cyprus and the
university administration which claimed that his death was a suicide,
noting that the deceased fell from a seven-storey building.
Justice
Bello insisted that the report should be investigated and all those
found culpable should be prosecuted “as there was nothing to show that
my son committed suicide.”
The judge said hours before her son
was killed, she spoke with him and he expressed fear about his safety in
the university environment.
She stated, “I don’t believe it was
an accident or a suicide as I went to Cyprus barely 24 hours after it
happened and got to the mortuary where there was no scratch or wound on
his body.
“I suspected foul play that my son was killed as the school was nonchalant in breaking the news to me on my arrival there.”
Justice
Bello further disclosed that hours before her son died, he had sent her
a WhatsApp message saying, “ Mama, please, I want to come back home.
Wallahi, if I stay here, I will just die here without anybody batting an
eyelid. I just need to come back home. Mama please, try to understand
that this isn’t the place for me.”
Dabiri-Erewa called on
parents to be wary of sending their wards to Northern Cyprus “as the
country is not recognised by the United Nations except the Republic of
Turkey,” adding that Nigeria had no diplomatic ties with that country.
She
assured Bello that NiDCOM would work with the Ministry of Justice, the
Nigerian Mission in Turkey and other relevant agencies to ensure justice
was done.
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