Post by Barr Iniebehe Effiong
This is the photograph of the late Abasifreke John Jeremiah (Ab Jerry Jerry), a rising Nigerian wrestler from Akwa Ibom State. He went to Bayelsa State on 10th December, 2023 for training preparatory to a wrestling competition.
His family was informed on 28th December, 2023 that he drowned on 27th December, 2023 after a boat he was traveling with capsized.
Curiously, the people who reported his death to his family and claimed to have recovered his corpse refused to send a photograph of his body to his family for identification despite repeated demands.
The family eventually obtained a photograph of the corpse through an anonymous source which has raised fundamental questions on the claims that he drowned and raises reasonable suspicion that he may have been murdered.
The gory photograph of the corpse shows visible signs of deep cut in the neck and a bloodied body.
We have petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State Command on behalf of the father of the deceased who is a retired Superintendent of the Nigeria Police Force to demand a thorough investigation and a coroner’s inquest.