Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has informed the Senate Joint Committees on Diaspora and Inter-Governmental Affairs and Foreign Affairs that Ikem’s employer, a Nigerian student who was fatally beaten in the Philippines, and five other individuals have been charged with murder.
Dabiri-Erewa added that a man’s recent social media video, which went viral and claimed that 250 Nigerians were planned for execution in Ethiopia, was completely untrue.
This was the high point of the Joint Senate Committees’ investigative hearing, which was chaired by Senator Victor Umeh.
According to Dabiri-Erewa, the employer in the case of Ikem, who was brutally murdered, has been declared wanted by the Philippine police. The employer has since escaped.
She claimed that the Nigerian Embassy has reported the case to the Inspector General of the Philippines National Police as well as the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Philippines.
She claimed that the Embassy had been in constant communication with the local line police station and had given them clear instructions to proceed with the inquiry.
After completing the evidence collection, she added, the investigative police team took the case to the Mandaue City Prosecution Department, which reviewed it and decided to file a murder case.
“They are charged with murder, human trafficking, and operating an illegal business in the Philippines; they have filed the case and issued a warrant of arrest for the boy’s employee and five other suspects,” Dabiri-Erewa stated.
She informed the Committees that although they had been granted amnesty to help clear the jails, most of them had returned and continued to perpetrate the same crimes.
