The senate has directed its committees on police, Judiciary, human rights and legal matters to look into the circumstances surrounding the death of 28 year-old Ifeoma Abugu in the hands the police special anti robbery squad in Abuja.
The Senator representing Enugu north Senatorial district, Chukwuka Utazi, raised the issue in a motion during plenary on Tuesday asking for justice to be served.
According to him, the arrest, rape and killing of Miss Ifeoma Abugu, a graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology, goes against section 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2015, which provides that “a person shall not be arrested in place of a suspect.
A minute silence was held in honour of the deceased
