Mystery Trails Death Of Student In Delta Hotel

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Students of Delta State University (DELSU), Oleh Campus, have demanded a probe into the death of a final year Law student, Jeffery Omatseyi, at a swimming pool in Graceland Hotel, Irri community in Isoko South Local Government Area of the state.

The incident reportedly happened over the weekend.

The students who protested in black and armed with placards with various inscriptions, such as “Itsekiri and Ijaw boy no fit let go for shallow part of swimming pool,”  “Your pool is not Sambisa forest”, “Fish no dey die for water;” “Give us Jeffery, where your CCTV”?  “We have questions, give us answers” among others, demanded to know the cause of his death.

President of the Students’ Union Government at DELSU, Comrade O. Innocent, maintained that the statement from the hotel management and the police were conflicting, noting that an Ijaw boy could not have died in a swimming pool.

“It is not true that an Ijaw boy would die in a swimming pool of two feet. Never, and so, we would not accept the conflicting reports from the hotel management. They should tell us what happened to him. The incident happened on Friday and the body was deposited at the mortuary on Saturday.

“Justice must prevail, we want to know how our colleague died. Omatseyi was to graduate in a few weeks, suddenly he lost his life.”

A 500-level law student, Emeni Fidel, said: “ Omatseyi was a friend and popular among his colleagues. The circumstances surrounding his death are not known, which is why justice must be done. We want to know the truth about his death.”

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