Update From . COM

The family of Ubong Friday is asking for justice after the corpse of the deceased was recovered from a river in Rivers State.

Friday drowned in a swamp while trying to evade arrest by the police in Rumuigbo, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Monday, August 2.

The artisan was working on a construction site in Rumuigbo, when a resident invited the police to arrest workers on the site, claiming that the contractor used sand to block his apartment.

When the police got to the site, Ubong ran into a swampy area after one of them allegedly chased him with a gun, and he drowned in the process, an eyewitness told journalists.

The deceased’s brother-in-law, Joseph Etim, who confirmed that the artisan’s corpse was recovered by policemen and deposited in the morgue of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, alleged that the police were responsible for his death, Punch reports.

Etim told the publication: "The Divisional Police Officer sent her men to bring the corpse from where it was recovered. I want justice so that the issue will not be swept under the carpet like it is normally done when police personnel kill innocent people.

"The police are not saying anything other than recovering the body and depositing it in the UPTH morgue."

The spokesman for the state police command, Nnamdi Omoni, told Punch the police personnel had no hand in the artisan’s death, but only responded to an invitation by a resident.

He said: "They were trying to clear the place that was blocked and our men were invited. It wasn’t as if the police were chasing him (Ubong); when our men advanced to the place, the workers all ran.

"He (the artisan) tried to scale a fence and landed in a pit and got stuck. What I’m telling you is what the DPO told me."

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Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2021/8/family-demands-justice-as-body-of-artisan-who-drowned-while-fleeing-from-police-is-recovered.html

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His corpse should be arrested as well. What nonsense.

What is there to be arrested by the police? It is possible that he thought he was innocent, but no one can attest to that.

For nature to have sentenced him means that the uselessness of the Nigerian Police has been vindicated.

Why should he run in the First place knowing he's innocent

Let's donate prayers for the Nigerian police force.

The only thing the Nigerian police force needs right now is our prayers

Nnmadi Omoni always fond of spewing gibberish in defence of his criminal minded officers. Police always delving into civil matters at every slightest opportunity.

The account of eye witness who happens to be the neighbour where the site under construction was been carried out stated how the unruly officer corked his gun and pointed at the artisan to shoot him,the young man ran into the compound of the eye witness,he said the police man climbed the fence and pointed the gun at the guy again while corking the gun,at that point the guy ran again into the swampy Bush and suddenly began to sink.

People should always learn to be humble and tolerant,every one that has a police friend always inviting them over frivolities that ought to be discussed amicably just to intimidate anyone. The unprofessional and crook police officers will jump up over civil matters,but call them that armed men are causing trouble somewhere,you won't see those cowards.

The blood of that young man will be on the head of both the person that invited the police,and the useless officers themselves