“Keep Your Children At Home For First Degrees”– Shehu Sani Says, Condemns Death Of Nigerian Student In Northern Cyprus

Civil rights activist and former Senator of Kaduna central zone in the 8th National Assembly, Shehu Sani has condemned the shady circumstances behind the death of a 25 year old Nigerian citizen, Ibrahim Bello in Northern Cyprus.

Information on the student’s death was revealed when Chairman, CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa received a petition by a judge of the Kaduna State High Court, Justice Aminat Ahmad Bello, mother of the late Ibrahim Khaleel Bello.

Meanwhile, Sani described the alleged murder as condemnable, urging Nigerians to embrace home country based Education for the acquisition of first degrees.
“The World is becoming more dangerous,hateful and violent.Even though we are not safer,Keep your children at home for first degrees until sanity returns.May Allah grant him Aljanna.Amin.”

Expressing dismay over the incident, Minister Dabiri-Erewa said several similar happenings have been recorded, urging Nigerians to stay away from Northern Cyprus.

According to her Northern Cyprus is not recognised by the United Nations and any country which makes it difficult for them to do much when they get such reports.

In a statement by Gabriel Odu, of the Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of NIDCOM, he disclosed that Dabiri-Erewa made the plea while receiving a petition that was brought to the commision by a judge of the Kaduna State High Court, Justice Aminat Ahmad Bello, whose 25 years old son Ibrahim Khaleel Bello, was killed in the country.

Justice Bello was quoted to have said, “I don’t believe it was an accident or a suicide as I went to Cyprus barely 24 hours it happened and got to the mortuary where there was no scratch or wound on his body.

“I suspected foul play that my son was killed as the school was not bothered in breaking the news to me on my arrival there.”

According to her she had earlier received a WhatsApp message from her son which read thus, “Mama, Please I want to come back home. Wallahi if I stay here, I will just die here without anybody batting an eyelash. I just need to come back home Mama please try to understand that this isn’t a place for me.”

In her response Dabiri-Erewa said “The death of Khaleel, a third-year engineering student, had brought to a tipping point the incessant killing of Nigerian students in Northern Cyprus under baffling circumstances.

“It was difficult to employ international diplomacy in investigation as the country is only recognised by Turkey.

“The death of Ibrahim Khaleel should be the tipping point to a stop in the killing of our children anywhere in the world, particularly Northern Cyprus.

“It is not only Ibrahim. Kennedy Dede, 28; Augustine Ngok, Gabriel Sorewei, Osabanjo Owoyale, Augustine Wallace, Stanley Eteno, Hassan Babatunde, Temitayo Adigun, and Kubat Abraham are just a few of the ones that we even know.

“The problem is that most Nigerian parents do not know that Northern Cyprus is not recognised by any country in the world.

“It is not a UN-recognised country. It is only recognised by Turkey. That is why we have not been able to do much.

“Who do you report to? Thousands of Nigerian students are schooling there and I tell you that hundreds have been killed. Who do you take these cases to?

“And they are killed in similar circumstances. The school just tells you, ‘Well, they committed suicide,’ and nothing happens.

“We are going to list all these names of Nigerians that have been killed and we demand justice. There has been no prosecution and no compensation.

“No Nigerian parent should send their children to any university in Northern Cyprus – there is a collaboration which we do not understand that makes them kill blacks, particularly our Nigerian students.”

She assured Justice Bello that the commission will do everything possible and work with relevant agencies to ensure that Justices is served for all who have been killed in similar way.