The House of Representatives has demanded investigation into the killing of Kenneth Gyang and ensuring that justice is given with compensation to his family and proper medical care for the injured.

Rep. Dachung Bagos (PDP-Plateau) said this following the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance at yesterday’s plenary in Abuja.

In his motion, he noted that there was unrest on June 5, at a security checkpoint in Maraban Jama’a near Kuru, Jos, between the security and some of his constituents who were on their way to a funeral event.

He said they were stopped by the security personnel of the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, stationed at the popular Vwei Mararaban Jama’a Kuru, Jos South LGA of Plateau.

He said the people pleaded with the security personnel to allow them go to the mortuary to pick the body of their deceased for burial, and were only allowed access after an intense plea. He said on their way coming back from the mortuary, heading to church for the funeral service, the same security personnel stopped them at the checkpoint and denied them right of access.

He said some youths on bike came down to plead with the security personnel, but one amongst the security personnel shot two of the youths, thereby, killing an 18-year-old Gyang.

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He said the security personnel also injured one Emmanuel Pam, adding that the victims were among the mourners conveying the dead body from Zawan to Kuru for burial.

Bagos said the security personnel started shooting sporadically, scaring everybody in the community, thereby making people abandon their businesses and vehicles in search of safety.

He said funeral processions had never had such confrontation or prohibition either by order or convention from the security agents at this or any other checkpoint in Jos and its environs.

He said Kenneth, a promising young man, had his precious and sacred life untimely terminated by an officer who ought to have guaranteed his safety. The House, however, observed a one minute silence in solemn respect to the victim who lost his life during the incident.

The House also mandated the commandant of the special task force to investigate the killing of Gyang and ensure justice is given with compensation to his family and proper medical care for the injured.