For its failure to undertake proper investigation and give a detailed report of how a 15 year old Nigerian student, Ogukwe Obioma died in Ghana, the ECOWAS Court yesterday in Abuja ordered the government of Ghana to pay $250, 000 to the family of the deceased.
In a suit filed by Oguekwe’s father, claiming $10,000,000, Hon. Justice Micah Wrights handed down the $250, 000 fine.
The presiding Judge held that the court cannot hold the government of Ghana responsible for the boy’s death but said that since the government of Ghana failed to provide adequate investigation as well as detailed report on how the boy died, the court had no other choice than to indict the Ghanaian government.
Lawyer, representing the Ghanaian government, declined to commit on the judgment when approached by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The family of the deceased were absent at the court.
Recall that Oguekwe died in 2013 when the Ghanian Police called his dad to tell him that his son got drown in river. But the boy’s father later revealed that it was a case of premeditated murder. He said then: “At the morgue I discovered that he was stabbed in the rib and there were other various wounds with blood on his forehead and left and right sides”.
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