Family members of the late principal of the Abuja Rehabilitation Centre, located in Kuchiko community, Bwari Area Council of the FCT, have accused the FCT Administration of neglecting them, 40 days after their breadwinner was killed at the centre.
City & Crime had reported that the principal, Bala Tsoho Musa, was killed in front of his home within the facility on October 18 last month, by yet to be identified assailants.
In an interview, the younger brother of the deceased, Ibrahim Tsoho Musa, said while investigation into the killing had not yielded any positive result, the FCT Administration, with which he had worked for over two decades, had abandoned the family the principal left behind, which include three wives and children.
“Can you imagine that no official assistance, monetary or food items, has so far been received by the family from the government since the incident?’’ he asked.
Ibrahim also alleged that the police prevented the family members from taking some items owned by the deceased instructor, who was also a welder, from the centre up till the time they left the centre after the 40 days’ fiddau prayers.
He said, “These items include three-wheel chairs donated to the deceased by some charitable organisations, as well as his scrap operation tools like iron, that he works with as a welder.
“The police on duty had denied the family from taking the items, while a director who was supposed to give them an order to that effect, promised to be there physically but did not up till the time his wife left for their respected parents’ homes,’’ Musa added.
An official of the FCT Social Development Secretariat, who craved anonymity because he was not permitted to speak to journalists, said no one would deny the family of the late principal from removing his belongings.
He was, however, silent on the allegations that his family was abandoned by the FCT Administration.
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