By Perez Brisibe

OGHARA—National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, and National Association of Itsekiri Students, NAIS, have issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Delta State Government,  Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara and the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim to find the killers of an Itsekiri student, whose dead body was found at the institution’s staff quarters’ junction, last weekend.

The student, Miss Oritsegbugbemi Udu,  whos was in the Science Laboratory and Technology Department, was found dead on July 2 with white substances oozing from her mouth.

Reacting to the incident in a statement, weekend, national Presidents of NAIG and NAIS, Collins Edema and Oritseneye Fredrick, both expressed sadness that a week after the incident, the killers of the student were yet to be brought to book while the institution has not made a statement on the incident.

Accusing the school and the Police of turning a “blind eye” to the incident, the groups said: “We thought her (Oritsegbugbemi) case would have been handled in the same way that of late Cynthia Osokogu was treated when she was found dead sometime in August 2012 in Lagos.

“But we are shocked that the Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education also has not issued any statement condemning the act of killing an innocent school girl.  Our birthday message to the state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa is simply, find her killers and bring them to justice or face a shut down of the school.”

Reacting to the ultimatum, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Wilberforce Ofutukun while exonerating the school from the incident in an SMS, said: “The polytechnic has nothing to do with the death of any student.  She was found dead on Saturday morning after dropping her things in her room and returning with the car she came with on Friday. What has the polytechnic got to do with that?”

Meanwhile the state police command has denied reports that the Divisional Police Officer for Oghara Police Division demanded for money before his men would embark on investigation into the death of the student.

Describing the report as malicious and misleading, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Celestina Kalu, explained that following the discovery of the dead student, the DPO led detectives to the scene, viewed the corpse and observed no visible marks of violence on the body except whitish foam from the nose and mouth.