Punch
The Nigerian Army has narrated what transpired between Christian Ehima, a 24-year-old undergraduate of Computer Science in the University of Benin; and soldiers at the Railway Checkpoint in Igbanke, Edo State.
The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Saturday, said contrary to the allegations by Christian’s mother, Mercy Ehima, the soldiers at the checkpoint did not assault her son.
Nwachukwu also released video and audio evidence of the encounter between Christian, his mother and the soldiers.
Mercy, an Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Delta State Police Command, had said that her son was tortured to death by the soldiers at the checkpoint.
Mercy had said her son was travelling to a village called Ewesa in Edo before Benin on Friday, December 10, 2021, and had unknowingly boarded a kidnappers’ vehicle. She had claimed that her son ran to some soldiers at the checkpoint for help but the soldiers assaulted him, adding that the young adult died later of internal bleeding when rushed to the hospital.
But the Army spokesman in the statement on Saturday denied the allegations. Nwachukwu also sent our correspondent audio and video recordings of what transpired between the soldiers, the victim and his mother.
