By Austin Ogwuda
The Delta State Police command, has at last, broken its silence over the purported death of a youth leader while in their custody.
The command’s spokesman, Bright Edafe, a deputy Superintendent of Police DSP barely two hours after going to the press, responded to an earlier enquiry sent to him by The Townhall Media, saying “he (Youth leader) didn’t die in police custody, he fell sick and died while receiving treatment at the hospital”.
President General of Unenurhie, Mr. Peter Maison had narrated how the Youth leader, Mr Oyibo Diamond was invited by the police from the Ughelli A’ Division because of an incident that happened recently where an armed robber was killed at Evwreni community.
“Probably the police saw the phone number of my community youth leader in the phone of the deceased who the police said is a robber or kidnapper and when they came for raiding, the youth leader was among the six persons arrested at his elder Brother’s hotel in Unenurhie community.
“When we heard about the incident we went to the station to effect their release, the police refused, they insisted that they had a particular case against the youth leader, that they had traces of call between him and the suspected deceased robber/kidnapper”.
The President General claimed that the Youth leader who was arrested and detained on the 20th of December 2023 died in the Police custody on Christmas Eve.
