17 Year-old Boy Brutally Killed By Enugu State Waste Management Agency Officials

A 17 year-old boy named Callistus Chidiebere Ede was on Monday brutally killed by members of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA for throwing away refuse with an unauthorized bag.
The mother of the boy, Mrs Ede David confirmed this to reporters that she sent the boy to throw the waste away as she got ready to go to the market.
She said: “I was preparing to go to market to sell my food that morning, so he left with the waste in our wheel‑barrow for disposal. While I was going out, I heard noise from the area where my son went to dispose refuse, I then asked my sister to take my stuff to the market while I proceeded to the dump site to know why my son had not returned. When I got to the dump site five hefty men were beating him. I approached them and asked why they were beating him but none of them uttered a word.”
The woman continued amidst tears and revealed that when she asked her son what he did, he said that he did nothing wrong and the men demanded that he gets into their car and follow them but he insisted he did no wrong. While one of the officials told her they were beating the boy because he refused arrest for with a bag not the ESWAMA bag.
She said: I pleaded with them to allow him to go because he was writing his Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, SSSCE, instead they should arrest me since he was underaged and I was the one that sent him on the mission, but they refused.”
She then started to narrate that she later told her boy to follow the men and went home to get money to bail her boy but by the way back to the ESWAMA office she saw her son laying on the road not moving.
Mrs Ede said: “I went back to the house and got some money and while going to ESWAMA office, I saw somebody lying on the road along Abakpa timber market but on getting closer I saw that the person was my son. When I stopped I raised alarm and people came out in their numbers and rushed him to a nearby private hospital, where he was confirmed dead at about 3:30pm Monday.”