The family of 23-year-old Asher Christopher has called for a thorough investigation into circumstances surrounding his death inside the Nigerian National Petroleum Company office building located along Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, on Tuesday, August 20, 2024.
Father of the deceased, Dan Christopher, said he was shocked that up till now, he had not seen the corpse of his son, who he said was a cleaner and casual worker with the company.
Christopher while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Thursday, said his younger son put a call across to him at about 4:15 pm on Tuesday that a colleague of Asher called him that he should come to the police station at Old GRA, that they needed him.
The father stated, “I asked what happened. My son said he didn’t know. When I got there, I asked Asher where they had searched, but they did not see my son’s name on the list at the police station. I had to ask my son, who called me to his brother’s (Asher’s) colleague again. He now called the person to find out if it was the Old GRA Police Station, and he said we should come or go elsewhere.
“The person said I should come to the surveillance office upstairs at the Old GRA Police Station. I waited till 7 pm, and one of the policewomen told me to come back on Wednesday.
“On Wednesday, the police told me my son was dead. So, they took my wife and me along with other people to the company (NNPC) on Moscow Road where he was working as a cleaner. So, I asked where my son fell from. They said nobody really knew if he fell from the second, third, fourth, seventh or last floor.
“I asked them what the boy looked like. They said he wasn’t wearing a shirt. So, I asked them to show me the place. They showed me the place, and I took pictures. I looked at the place, and there was no sign that somebody had fallen from there.”
