Sunday Asefon, the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Student Engagement, has reacted to the k!lling of a Nigerian Student, Stephen Opaso by the Canadian police.
Opaso, a student at the University of Manitoba in Canada, was shot by the police during a mental breakdown. He d!ed after he was rushed to a hospital.
Reacting to the unfortunate incident via a statement on Saturday, Asefon described the youngster’s k!lling as barbaric, cruel and heartless.
He vowed to engage the High Commission of Canada in Nigeria, and further collaborate with Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairperson of NiDCOM to ensure that the unfortunate k!lling was not swept under the carpet.
The aide stated that the impression in the public, as gathered during an interaction with the official of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) earlier on the case, was that the k!lling was racially motivated.
He said this was because the demised student was not welding a gun at the time of the incident and that the police officers would have acted differently if he were to be white.
He, thus, appealed to NANS and the entire Nigerian students to remain calm and vowed to follow the case up diligently until the Canadian authorities gave a true account of the death of the Nigerian student.
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