So Ifeanyl Nwokoye, 29, who died while in custody in April 2011, was at last buried on May 2, 2013. The delay was due to the two official inquiries that were set up, one government appointed, headed by Martin Scicluna, and the other a magisterial inquiry conducted by Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona to investigate the circumstances of Nwokoye’s death as required by law.

The Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry for Home Affairs have all along declined to give information on the cause of death to the immediate relatives of the victim, to Scicluna, to the Emigrants’ Commission and to the press, a decision which the ministry is reported to have taken “not to prejudice the investigation”.

The magisterial inquiry was said by the Attorney General to have been concluded in September 2012. And still no official information on the cause of death, as revealed by the autopsy is out.

Why is the Ministry for Home Affairs hiding the findings of the judicial inquiry when it should be favouring justice and transparency, not denying it?

Does it serve the public interest to conceal the truth revealed by a magisterial inquiry?

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