Slain Matthew Akioyamen's Family Cries Out For Justice

By Simeon OSAJIE

Wife of  late Matthew Akioyamen, whose was assassinated by unknown persons, Mrs. Osaiyobomwen Akioyamen has called on President Buhari, the Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Adamu and the Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki to wade in and bring the killers of her husband to book.

The deceased, Matthew, 38, until his death, was a Supervisor of Okomu Oil Plc in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State and was employed as a staff in 2015.

Briefing newsmen in Benin, wife of the deceased, Mrs. Akioyamen alleged that her husband who worked at the Okomu Oil Plc supervisor left the house on that fateful day to his place of work and never returned.

"On 1st December, 2020, my r called me to wish me happy new month and he told me that he was already in the place to supervise the people he was using to work.

"So, he told me that if he leaves that place, network will disappear from his phone and that he was already closed to the place.

"So, on the 2nd December, 2020, my brother-in-law called me that he received a call from my husband place of work, (Okomu Oil Plc) that my husband went to work but he did not return to the estate, that they should ask me if he came to Benin.

"I told him that anytime my husband is coming to Benin, he usually call me first that he is coming even if it was weekend. 

"And asked besides, he just left today and why will he come back today again because he doesn't have anything to do in Benin and that they should ask them there.

"When he called them again, they were still saying the same thing.

"As about 9am on the 2nd December, 2020, they called me again  from Okomu that they have found his dead body in the bush where he went to work inside the Okomu yard that he was brutally murdered.  I told them that it was already late", she narrated.

The young widow who is now left with three little children and the eldest, aged 5 and the least, 4 months, told newsmen further that compounding her woes, was that the remains of her husband were not even shown to the family before he was allegedly deposited at the morgue by the management of Okomu Oil Plc. 

"When my brother-in-law and l made several efforts to see the remains of my husband at the morgue, l was told by the mortuary attendants that they won't be able to control my emotion if l see the wound on the body of my husband."

She further called on the Inspector General of Police and the Edo State government to swing into action and bring the perpetrators of the killers of her late husband to book noting that, before his death, he was the breadwinner of the family.

However, efforts to get the reaction of the management of Okomu on the alleged death of one of their staff, Mr. Matthew Akioyamen proved abortive as several phone calls put across to Mr. Fidelis Olise the image maker of Okomu, were left unanswered.