President Jonathan is culpable and has a hand in the death of my child, Damilola's father reacts.

Damilola with Dad and Mum, during her Call-to Bar
According to her parents, who spoke with journalists in their Oke-Aro home in Akure, Ondo State yesterday, they described the incident as terrible injustice to humanity as the Federal Government initially awarded the pipeline contract to the OPC for selfish interests, which gave them the impunity to engage in an orgy of cannibalism and barbaric display of power in their operations.


Her father said:    “I will miss her coolness, the advice, and the way she would talk to you and appreciate you. If you give her a penny, the way she would say ‘thank you daddy.’ That thank you daddy has been moving me to tears. In hard times in the family, whenever she came around and talked, everybody listened to her. She has been the moderator and pillar of this family.”


     “To me, President Jonathan is culpable and has a hand in the death of my child because he shouldn’t have taken the constitutional duties of the security agencies and given it to an ordinary organisation made of touts and miscreants, who are not trained in the handling of arms and ammunition,” he lamented.

“We want justice. We want those who killed our daughter to be arraigned and prosecuted. We want them to face the wrath of the law; those who killed her at her prime and prevented her from achieving her dreams,” both parents pleaded.

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