\nThe Chairman House Committee on Diaspora Affairs Hon Abike Dabiri Erewa has assured the family of the late Gabriel Soriwei, a 20-year-old student of Electrical\/Electronic Engineering, who died in Cyprus, that the circumstances surrounding his death would be investigated and made known to Nigerians.<\/p>\n
Gabriel, a student of Cyprus International University in the north of Cyprus, under the control of Turkey, was said to have died on the 7th of September 2013, after a woman, knocked him down with a car.<\/p>\n
Presenting his case before the House committee on Diaspora, the deceased father Patrick Soriwei, said Police authority in Turkey is shielding the identity of the woman and has also concealed the information on investigation into the incident from his family.<\/p>\n
In an emotion-laden voice, the father of the deceased told the committee how his late son\u2019s school also treated his death with disdain.<\/p>\n
He informed the committee, chaired by Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, that the Turkish Embassy in Nigeria too did not show any interest in the death of his son.<\/p>\n
According to him, Gabriel went into coma after he was knocked down on July 13, 2013. adding that he traveled to Cyprus, where he found his son on a life-support machine in a hospital.<\/p>\n
After spending two weeks with him, Patrick told the committee that he returned to Nigeria when there was evidence that Gabriel was improving.<\/p>\n
However, he said he received a shocking telephone call from the President of International Students in Cyprus, who informed him on September 7 that his son had died of a heart attack and was called by officials of a Turkish airline that they were sending him a cargo which turned out to be the body of his son<\/p>\n
The bereaved father said he sought the committee\u2019s intervention because all efforts he made so far through other Federal Government agencies to get to the root of the matter had not yielded any results.<\/p>\n
He also said none of Gabriel\u2019s personal belongings was sent to Nigeria with his corpse.<\/p>\n
Responding, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa assured him that the committee would liaise with the Nigerian Embassy in Cyprus to find out what actually led to the death of Gabriel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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