A 17-year-old, Secondary School boy, Ede Chiebere was allegedly
murdered gruesomely by enforcement teacm of Enugu State Waste Management
Authority, ESWMA. The murder of the boy has led to serious tension in
Enugu metropolis. The brutal enforcement team of the Enugu state agency,
which had been terrorising residents of the metropolis, send the young
man to his untimely grave for allegedly using an unauthorized ESWMA bag
to dispose refuse in the early hours of Monday. The mother of the boy,
Mrs Ede David said her son, Callistus Chidebere Ede, met his untimely
death when she asked him to go and dispose an already bagged refuse with
grain bag on Monday morning.
According to her, “I was preparing to go to market to sell my food
that morning, so as he left with the waste in our wheel-barrow to the
dump site for disposal, I quickly prepared for market. “While I was
going out with a tricycle operator popularly known as (KEKE), I had
noise towards the area my son went to dispose refuse, I asked my sister
to carry my food to the market with the KEKE man and I proceeded to the
dump site to know why my son had not returned.
“When I got to the dumpsite five hefty-boys were beating him, I
approached them and asked why they were beating him but none of them
uttered a word.
“I asked them to stop beating him and asked my son what the matter was, but he coudnt talk because he was already too weak”.
The woman who could not control her emotion, said her son manage to
tell her that the ESWMA officials asked him to enter their vehicle and
he refused because he committed no offence, “and one of the officials
told me that they are beating him because he resisted arrest for
disposing refuse with another bag other than ESWMA bag which is meant
for the disposal of refuse in the state.
“I pleaded with them to allow him to go because he was writing his
senior school certificate examination, SSCE, instead they should arrest
me since he is under age and I sent him on the mission, but they
refused”.
Mrs Edeh, further narrated that after all effort to dissuade them
from arresting her son failed, she told her son to go with them,
promising to join him immediately, “thereafter, he entered their
vehicle, and “I went back to the house and got some money”
“while going to ESWMA office, I saw somebody lying on the road
along Abakpa timber market but on getting closer I saw that the person
lying on the road in a poll of blood is my son.”
“When I stopped I raised the alarm and people came out in their
numbers and rushed him to a nearby private hospital, called Ogechi
Hospital where he was confirmed death at about 3:30pm Monday.
Following his death, hundreds of people besieged the gate of ESWMA at GRA area protesting the gruesome murder of the school boy.
Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP, Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the killing of the young man by ESWMA officials.
Amarizu said “We have received information on the alleged murder
of a 17 year old boy by yet to be identified persons and investigations
into the incident have commenced to ascertain their motives” he stated
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