HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS CONDEMNS THE KILLING OF A NIGERIAN IN IRELAND, CALLS ON THE MINISTRY TO ENSURE COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION
Daily Rendezvous The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives has strongly condemned the shooting and subsequent death of a 27-year-old Nigerian ,George Nkencho, in Ireland over circumstances that have at best sounded absurd. In the incident which took place on Wednesday last week, Nkencho was alleged to have threatened a Policeman with a knife, which prompted the application of maximum force to snuff dear life out of the young Nigerian,whose family insists had a history of long depression. While sympathising with the family of the deceased, especially Nkencho's siblings before whom their brother was shot over five times by a trigger- happy law- enforcement officer, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Yusuf Buba Yakub, also condoles with members of the Nigerian community in Ireland,who have since risen in condemnation and protest against the senseless murder of one of their own. Buba calls on the Hon. Minister of ...