Family of a medical graduate of the University Stephen Urueye, who was killed about two months ago, have expressed suspicion about the personality of a lady he was said to be seeing off at the time he was murdered.
They said the police were not giving them a clear picture of her personality and possible role.
Besides, the family of the 25-year-old Urueye said the police were keeping them in the dark over the entire investigation.
Urueye was attacked on Thursday, April 4, around 9pm, seeing off a female friend along the Canal area – a route near the College of Medicine campus said to be notorious for robbery attacks.
The attackers reportedly stabbed him in the thigh while trying to dispossess him of his phone and ATM card.
Although the police had said that one Gbadebo Jimoh and Malik Adeboye had been arrested in connection with the murder, an elder sister of the deceased, Mrs Amina Wahab, said they were not been briefed on the progress being made.
In an interview ‘City Round; she, “We have not heard anything from the police. They have not contacted the family at all. We don’t know what happened to the suspects they arrested. We don’t know whether they have been released or not.
“It is almost two months now, no information from the police; no justice. At least, we deserve to know what is happening. The bandits stabbed him near his private parts which aroused suspicions. A robber will probably stab somebody in the chest or hand to injure him.
“The most annoying part of it is that my mother called a policeman, one Officer Nurudeen, at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, over the case on Wednesday and he insulted her. Maybe they have concluded that we are weak and cannot do anything.”
Wahab stated further that attempts by the family to get first-hand information on the attack from the female friend Urueye was seeing off that evening had proved abortive. She said,
“One of Stephen’s (Urueye) friends gave us the phone number of the girl whom he was seeing when the attack happened. Her real name, according to Stephen’s friends, is Deborah and not the name the police gave out. Whenever we call her and introduce ourselves as Stephen’s relations, she would just end the call. All attempts to trace the girl have been abortive. Why is she running away if she has nothing to hide?
“She is not his girlfriend and we don’t know her. We all know his girlfriend. She (Deborah) is the only eyewitness to the incident yet she has not deemed it fit to contact the family to give us information about what actually happened. Somebody lost his life because he took the risk to see you off in a dangerous area; courtesy demands that you show up to tell the family exactly what happened.”
But the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Bala Elkana, was quoted as saying the command had been relating with LUTH authorities on the case.
“We have been engaging the hospital authorities in our investigation and the chief security officer of the hospital has been coming for updates,:” he said.
