Mother of missing undergraduate petitions IG, faults probe

Mother of missing undergraduate petitions IG, faults probe

A woman, Mrs. Bridget Iwelu, has petition the acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, to ask for his intervention in the search for her son, 19-year-old Emeka Shoremekun, an undergraduate of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who had not been seen since 2013.
The mother of an undergraduate
Shoremekun, a 200 level student of Mass Communication, was said to have gone missing for more than a year without any information about his whereabouts from the Nigerian Police.
In the petition by the chambers of Jiti Ogunye, the distraught mother called for help of the police boss to revive investigation into the whereabouts of her son.
According to Iwelu, her son, Shoremekun could have been forcibly taken from or lured out his hostel on June 10, 2013.
Iwelu recalled that on that day, she saw her son’s missed call on her mobile telephone but when she later called back, Shoremekun’s line was unreachable and the situation remained so for three days after which she became really worried.
Iwelu said, “I got worried that something untoward might have happened to him and so I called his girlfriend, Ada, who I had previously met when I visited Shoremekun in school sometime in 2013, to ask her whether she had seen my son and if he was safe.
“But his girlfriend, Ada, informed me that she was in Lokoja, Kogi State, at the time. I charged her to help me look for my son as soon as she got back to Awka and about three hours later, Ada called to inform me that on getting to my son’s room in the students’ hostel, she did not see him but saw his cell phone on his bed without the SIM card and also his unwashed food plate, the food remnants, crumbs of which had caked up.”
According to Iwelu, on the following day she went to Shoremekun’s school in company with her husband, Michael Iwelu, and his brothers, Augustine Iwelu, and Ayo Wield.
But on getting to Shoremekun’s hostel, they met his roommates, a boy named Felix and another, who took them to Shoremekun’s supposed best friend in school, Shedrack. Shedrack however told them he did not know where Shoremekun was.
Iwelu said, “We could not report the case of the ‘disappearance’ of my son to the university authorities because academic activities in the institution were paralysed due to an industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, but we reported the case at the Area C Police Command, Awka, Anambra State, being the nearest Police Station.”
According to Iwelu, Ada and Shedrack were subsequently arrested by the police for interrogation.
She said, “And in January 2014, my husband and I went to the Area Police C Command, Awka, to find out whether there were new developments or information, and to know the progress being made in the investigation, but we were shocked when the police told us that they had not taken any further steps in the case beyond the initial arrest of Ada and Shadrach and the statements they had obtained from them.”