By Osagie Alonge
The memories of the four slain (ALUU 4) University of Port Hacourt students Tekena Elkanah, Chidiaka Biringa, Ugonna Ibuzor and Llyod Michael is very fresh.
The four students were stripped naked in public, beaten, and burned with car tires hanging on their necks.
With millions of people including celebrities such as D’banj and M.I calling for justice to be served, international media have published different stories concerning the October 5 killing.
The BBC recently spoke with the parents of the deceased.
The extensive chat was intended to only feature Tochu Mike, father of Llyod Michael (who was before his gruesome death, a 200 level Civil Engineering undergraduate and budding rapper) but then extended to the other mourning parents.
Listen to the 50-minute interview session conducted by Ross Atkins of the BBC ‘World Have Your Say‘ show.
[audio:http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/whys/whys_20121009-1900a.mp3|titles=K9-KOKOMA+(Freestyle)]
3 comments
Ross, Thank you very much for your interest in the terrible thing that happened in Aluu, Rivers State, Nigeria. Nobody is justifying the killings but your interest is very coloured. In fact, I want to point out the thrust of your questions have been towards painting a warped picture of Nigeria rather than to condole or pass information correctly.
We also hear of unthinkable things happening in the UK and else where. Ross, stay on the point and leave Nigeria alone. Did you by any chance find out who murdered princess Diana- for instance??? That was barbaric, was it not??? You folks always want to paint news from Africa in a light that is prejudiced, yet your people are living freely here!!!
sometin must be done
Gloria thanks for that. You are on point and a true patriot. Ross we in Nigeria think you should clean up your homefront before poking your nose into Nigeria’s affairs. Who abducted and killed a 5year old girl in Wales? What about the countless kids abducted by pedophiles in the Uk? Have they been found and brought to book? Imagine asking if God could have played a role in a community where the killings occurred. Please keep your atheism to yourselves and clean up your country first before you think of pokenosing into African business and trying to sound sanctimonious. What happened here is the most atrocious act, we agree but its family business, Nigerian business and no matter how slow it takes we will get it right.