Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has charged the Nigerian Police Force to adhere to strict professional conduct while investigating the rape and killing of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa.

HURIWA also express worry that “The Police may scuttle and muddle up the investigations of the circumstances and the persons responsible for the dastardly sexual violation and gruesome murder of the 100 level Microbiology Student of the University of Benin Miss. Vera Uwaila Omozuwa last week due to political pressure,” 

HURIWA said the Nigerian Police Force should be focused, comprehensive and organised so as to generate extensive and faultless body of evidence that will stand the test of time just as the Rights group said although it is good that many of the senior aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have shown some considerable zeal and interests in the matter, it however warned that the Police must not work under political pressure to justify.

The statement reads: “HURIWA is concerned that the Nigerian Police Force in a bid to dramatize that it is professionally competent may make the historical mistake of treating this atrocious act as a media showmanship and then fail to scientifically generate unassailable body of factual evidence to pin down the suspects to this notorious crime of rape and murder of a University student inside of a Church of God.  

“We have observed with consternation that it does not appear that the Police cordoned off the crime scene with a view to uncover the finger prints of the suspects just as the Rights group said if it is true that the Crime scene has been set ablaze by some aggrieved Students of the University of Benin then the Police has indeed failed in its primary duty of protecting crime scenes so as to preserve empirical evidence that will nail all the suspects without exceptions.

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” In foreign jurisdictions, when such a grave crime occurs the security services do not allow any other person to access the crime scene not until all the critical piece of forensic evidence to aid the investigation are gathered and secured. Let this case be a litmus test for the Nigerian Police to show their professionalism ij crime investigation. 

“The Nigerian Police Force  must not treat this case like a media spectacle to score a goal or make a point but the Police needs to be meticulous and down- to- earth to ensure that all the right suspects are rounded up and top notch evidence built up to sustain the successful prosecution of these murders who have hearts of stone. We urge the Chief Justice of Nigeria to draw up guidelines so criminal cases do not suffer undue delay or technicalities,”  

Speaking further, the Rights group said that it has watched as the celebrated case of the murder of this innocent University girl has become a topic of intensed debates on tweeter accounts of top government officials and we are worried that just like some cases that enjoyed similar celebrity status in the past that ended up controversially and quickly forgotten, Nigerians must be vigilant and ensure the case comes to a logical conclusion.
“Nigerians should never lose focus of this grave  crime that has jolted the National conscience. This must not be like other matters that were seen and discussed when they occured only for this national sense of forgetfulness to creep in and the matter would be forgotten by the citizens. We must be collectively resolved and determined to see to the logical end of this matter.”