How policemen sold corpse of UNICAL student to his school

Facts surrounding the whereabouts of a 300-level student of the Department of Accounting, 

University of Calabar, Derek Maurice-Enang, have emerged. His cadaver was allegedly sold to the 

Anatomy Department of the same institution by a team of four policemen led by a sergeant, Anthony 

Idoko, attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Cross River State Police Command 

headquarters in Calabar at the cost of N11,000.

A 59-year-old widow, who is the mother of the deceased, Mrs. Enoh Maurice-Enang, had recently 

petitioned the former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, to take over the 

investigation of the missing Derek from the headquarters of the Zone 6 Command of the Nigeria 

Police in Calabar, alleging that Idoko abducted her 22-year-old son since April 16, 2014.

She also sent the same petition to Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke and the National Human 

Rights Commission, among others, for necessary action.

Maurice-Enang said in the petition, “My son was not of questionable character and had never been 

detained in any police station or had any previous matter with the police anywhere,according to 

vanguard.

“Sgt. Anthony Idoko of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad plotted and arrested my son on April 16, 

2014, and took him to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Office at Diamond Hill, Calabar, where he 

murdered him.”

The day after he was arrested, Derek and five others were allegedly executed and their remains were 

traced to the Anatomy Department of the University of Calabar, where each of the body was said to 

have been sold for N11, 000.

“I searched for my son everywhere including the SARS office where we reported for days. The search 

came as a result of a statement made by one Ekpenyong Akom, a policeman and friend to Idoko, who 

said that my son ‘had an encounter with the police,’” she alleged.

“It was at Zone 6 that the truth came out through an eyewitness who was among those arrested that 

night but was lucky to have escaped being killed. The eyewitness said after they were arrested and 

kept in SARS office, Idoko later brought a young man who was identified as Derek.”

She said her source told her a SARS official came later with a flashlight and separated the suspects 

into two groups and that at about 12am on April 17, 2014, one of the group of six, which included 

Derek, was taken out with their hands tied to their back.

“According to the eyewitness who was later brought before the AIG to testify, when the SARS officials 

came back that night, one of them approached the detainees in their office, pointed his flashlight to 

his blood-stained clothe and told them ‘when you go back (released), do thanksgiving to God because 

others who were taken out have been sent on a long journey,” she said.