COMMUNITY PETITIONS OYO POLICE COMMISSIONER OVER ALLEGED EXTRA- JUDICIAL KILLING OF INDIGENE

The Counsel giving the details of the incident that led to the death of Lateef, stated that the 32 year old victim was killed on his way to his place of work at a Gari processing factory in Obatule Akoto area, of Sepeteri.

“Lateef who was riding on his motorcycle was shot and taken away by members of Nigeria Police Force, with his father, Mr Jimoh Adio, rushed to the scene and find his son in a pool of blood wriggling in pain on the ground’,the petition emphasised.

“The Divisional Police Officer in Ago- Amodu was immediately contacted who deny that the officers were not from his division. The matter was also reported to the leadership of Sepeteri community. The search party eventually got wind that the police that shot Lateef are from Igbeti”,the lawyers stated

The petition added that the leaders of the community in their quest to get to the root of the matter discovered that the victim was taken to a local herbalist to extract bullet from him, but died in the process while his remains “were deposited at the General hospital Igbeti,  but were not allowed to see the corpse.”

Penpushing further reports that the incident threw the entire Sepeteri community into mourning mood as youths of the community were prevailed upon by the elders not to take laws into their hands in their bid to protest the killing.

The lawyer who described Lateef, “as a responsible, law abiding and gainfully employed person with no criminal record whose life was cut short by trigger happy policemen has left his family in great pain, his wife widowed and his children orphaned.”

Penpushing also reports that ,the elders through the letter called on the Commissioner of Police, “as a matter of urgency direct through investigations of this case with a view to identify the policemen responsible for the extra judicial killing and prosecute them for murder while they pursue civil remedy against the Nigeria Police Force.

The Police Public Relation Officer in the State, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, when contacted on phone said that the Commissioner,  Shina Olukolu has ordered investigation on the matter to unravel the circumstances behind the issue, adding that journalists will be informed as soon as the investigation is concluded.

“I cannot say anything on the matter right now until the investigation is concluded to know the true state of the matter, the police is currently working g on it, and people will be informed as soon as we conclude our findings”, he declared.