Local: Council chairman denies ordering killing of final year law student

Ugwu's family, in a petition reportedly submitted to the IGP by a law firm, Da Sphinix legal practitioners, accused Omeje of instructing the killing of their boy and urged the police chief to bring all those involved in the death to justice.

The chairman of the Nsukka local government council of the state of Enugu, Patrick Omeje, yesterday refuted the allegations that he ordered the murder of Augustine Ugwu, a final year law student at Nsukka, and called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to investigate the alleged petition that had been brought before him (Omeje) for ordering the murder of the boy.

Augustine, a final year law student at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, was alleged to have taken place on 23 April 2020 in a pub on Odobido Street Nsukka, where he had gone in company with two friends and was detained by an anti-cultism unit in the city, along with two others. Reacting to the allegation, Omeje told reporters that he had nothing to do with the boy's death, insisting that the allegation was being peddled by his political opponents who were interested in his downfall..

“I was called from one newspaper yesterday that one Andy Ugwu wrote a petition to the IGP that I ordered the death of his son and I said how can I order the death of his son? But what kind of son does he have? That is the question. People should know that during politics we play politics and when politics is gone, we focus on governance. I heard the boy had a very bad record and was arrested by the police. There are several confessional statements his colleagues in crime made to the police when they arrested them. How does that concern me?”

Omeje, who said he was not disturbed by the allegation that the IGP was called upon to investigate the case thoroughly and to bring the perpetrators to the books.