By Samuel Oyadongha
Yenagoa—Agape Birthrights, a group in Bayelsa State, has joined other civil society groups in the call on police authorities in the state to make public the identity of, and prosecute, the policemen who killed Citizen Emmanuel Victor, failing which it will head to court to compel it (Police) to do so.

The group, reiterated its determination to obtain justice for the family of the slain youth, adding that Nigeria must stop murdering citizens.

Twenty-five years old Emmanuel, who was going for a degree programme in Law at the Niger Delta University, NDU, Amassoma, was shot dead close to checkpoint while returning from Church by a police officers last month. It was the result of alleged disagreement with policemen who wanted to collect gratification from the commercial motorcycle (Okada) Emmanuel boarded.

Though the killer policemen were apprehended and faced orderly room trial by the new Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hilary Opara, human rights community and family of the deceased are not comfortable with the way police was handling the matter.

They feared that the police authorities might not prosecute the indicted officers, thereby denying them justice.

President of Agape Birthrights, Annkio Briggs, who addressed newsmen, yesterday, in Yenagoa, said for the sake of justice, the identity of the of the officers involved in the killing should be made public and charged to court.

Lamenting the way the young man was killed by security operatives, who were kitted and funded with tax payers’ money, she said: “Human life cannot be so cheap that people, who cannot create a chicken, take it with such disregard. Not even a chicken is murdered that way. Emmanuel Victor was chased and murdered with impunity.”