Father of slain Nigerian student wants justice

President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to intervene in the shoddy handling of the death of a Nigerian student in Cyprus, Gabriel Peremiyentei Soriwei.
The father of the deceased, Comrade Soriwei Patrick Dubamini, said his 20- year old son, a student of Electrical/Electronic Engineering at the Cyprus International University, (CIU), Nikosia in the Republic of Cyprus died following the injury he sustained when he was knocked down by a car driven by an unnamed Turkish woman.
In an open letter to the President, Comrade Soriwei, said instead of prosecuting the driver who was allegedly drunk when the accident happened, the Turkish police has shielded her and insisted that she lost control of the car.
“On July 13, 2013, I received a call from the agent who facilitated his admission processes at 9:30pm that my son was knocked down by a vehicle and was in a coma in Cyprus. Immediately I arranged a trip to Nikosia, North Cyprus the following week and met my son on admission in the intensive care unit of the Nikosia General Hospital. By their rules, I was given a five minutes access to the unconscious boy on Mondays and Thursdays.
“I went with The President of the Foreign Students in Nikosia to the police station to know how the matter was handled and see the lady who drove the vehicle that knocked him down. But from all indications, the police built a web of protection around the Turkish Woman,” Soriwei added.
The father of the deceased said it was unfortunate that the university flew the body of his son to the country on September, 12 in a most traumatic manner “as a cargo” without his belongings.
“The Leadership of the CIU did not find it expedient to send representatives from the school neither did they write any condolence letter to my agonizing family. Almost a month after his death, the lady who killed my son has not found it weighty enough to call the grieving Soriwei family to commiserate with us,” he said.
Comrade Soriwei urged President Jonathan to intervene in the matter to prevent a reoccurrence of “such injustice in the future.”