Recently, a Nigerian, Godwin Ayogu, was brutally murdered at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
Channels Television’s correspondent, Amarachi Ubani, visited the parents of the late student said to have been killed, disemboweled, and the body dumped in front of his hostel at school.
Godwin’s murder was the fourth recorded in one year in Ghana.
As much as the death has been left for the authorities to determine, Godwin’s father feels his son’s murder was planned by his Ghanaian roommate, Abotsi Gweus, known to his friends as Enay.
This happened over a month ago, and involved some leg work, provided by the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana, said to be working closely with the family.
Understandably, the whole family is still grieving, they have not received the body, neither has it been buried.
His mother described him as the ‘strength of her youth.’
She never imagined she would be saying good bye this way, to a son she last saw in December last year, and one, who had said I love you, on valentine’s day, five days before his death.
Ghana Must Go Revenge
The father of the murdered student, Mr Fred Ayogu, said that some other Nigerians had escaped murder attempts in Ghana.
“Someone living close to us here that graduated from the same university escaped death. He was lucky. They collected his school fees and wanted to kill him. They collected one million Naira from him and when he went for the money, they wanted to kill him.
“When I went to Ghana, they told me that they have vowed to punish Nigerians because of the ‘Ghana Must Go’ issue. They are still harbouring the anger that they were sent out of Nigeria” he said.
Mr Ayogu said that the Ghanaian authority was delaying investigations because “the suspected roommate is a Ghanaian”.
Mr Ayogu speaks in his own words, how he learnt of his son’s death, and the many unanswered questions, like why his son did not pay his school fees, as directed by his father, or why his roommate, had the said fees in his possession, and why the said roommates has not been arrested as prime suspect in the murder.
