Varsity Don Demands Compensation Over Alleged Police ‘Killing’ Of Wife
By Victor Ofure Osehobo
A University of Benin lecturer is asking the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police brutality to order the Police to pay him and his family adequate compensation for the death of his wife.
Dr William Okotie of the Department of Institute of Public Administration, UNIBEN said he became a widower after a minibus with two policemen dragging the steering with the driver veered off the road and killed his wife.
He told the panel that his wife Dr. Mrs. Stella Okotie, who was also a lecturer in the Department of Institute of Education, UNIBEN, was standing at the entrance of the University when the incident happened.
Ever since he said life has been so difficult for him and his family since he lost his wife, due to the recklessness of the men of the Nigerian police at the gate of the university.
He said, “My son and I were standing alongside my wife, (now deceased) when it happened. We don’t know what happened between the driver and the policemen. We only saw the officers of the police dragging the steering with the driver until they hit my wife”.
He told the Panel that the family was done with the burial but needed adequate compensation to be able to take care of the family and settle debt incurred during since her transition.
