Aluu 4: Senate Condemns Aluu Killings, As Victim’s Mum Files Petition

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Let it not end at condemning the barbaric act, let it get to a logical conclusion which is meting out commensurate justice on the animals that committed this heinous crime against humanity

Senate on Tuesday condemned the killing of four students of the University of Port Harcourt by members of a vigilance group in Aluu community, saying it is the most bizarre way of applying justice. Senate’s reaction is coming on the heel of a petition by one of the victims’ mother, Mrs. Chinwe Biringa, and a motion by Ayogu Eze and 90 other senators, who described the killings of the four students as an act of terror.

Mrs. Biringa said she got the news of her son’s demise from his brother, who is also a student of the University of Port Harcourt.

“My son turned 20 years old this week and we gave him pocket money to celebrate it with his friends. On Friday morning, we were called by my second son, also a UNIPORT student, that all was not well and he was hearing bad rumours that villagers at Aluu, the host community of UNIPORT, had murdered four students."

“I immediately rushed to the scene, only to see my son’s dead body being taken away naked to a mortuary in UNIPORT Teaching Hospital. I could not believe my eyes and collapsed.

”What did my son do? What did the other three young men who died with him do?

“First, we heard that the four students were alleged to have stolen a Blackberry phone and a laptop computer" “This could not be farther from the truth. My son has had a Blackberry phone and, in fact, a laptop computer since he was in primary school.

“No way could my son steal such a common thing as a cell phone which every village woman now owns”.

Biringa said she wants only two things from the Senate; to clear the name of her son and justice meted to his killers. She said she has been subjected to several gory videos and pictures on the internet which show that someone filmed the whole act of barbarism from beginning to end. “My son and his friends were savagely beaten and burnt to death while villagers at Aluu watched. All this has been caught on film!

“The video shows that all this was filmed in broad day light which suggests that they were killed after 7.30 am. “Further investigation has revealed that they left their friend’s house at Aluu at about 7.am to go and prepare for lectures.”