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The governor of Edo
State, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, who spoke at the launching of the code
called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Deputy Inspector
General of Police, ‘D’ Department for his alleged compromise in the
death of his (Oshiomole’s) Principal Private secretary, Olaitan
Oyerinde.
Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was killed by unknown gunmen on 4th May 2012.
After Oyerinde’s
death, there were two different investigations that led to the Police
and the State Security Service presenting different report and parading
different suspects.
But Oshiomole
speaking yesterday emotionally on the muddled investigation by the
police, therefore, called for the immediate dismissal of the Deputy
Inspector General of Police (DIG), who supervised the investigation and
other officers involved in the exercise.
He said, “IG, I am
aggrieved; I am aggrieved over the murder of my private secretary and
the way in which it was trivialised. I am saying it knowing that the
Vice President is here.
“My secretary was
murdered in cool blood and you dispatch a DIG to supervise that
investigation, a DIG is a sufficiently senior officer, they came to
Benin and they did what Fela (Ransome-Kuti) would have called police
magic.
“In the end, they went for a civil rights activist and charged him for the offence of murder’’.
According to him,
the DIG allegedly conspired with other officers involved in the
investigation to shield the killers of Oyerinde, saying that they were
no longer fit to wear the uniform.
“The DIG Force CID
has a case to answer, it is either he is guilty of conspiracy to murder
or is guilty of conspiracy to shield murderers or both in which case he
cannot wear his police uniform, he must be dismissed.
“The Deputy
Commissioner of Police that he used, who claimed that they have done a
thorough job, he has no business wearing police uniform because by my
judgment, in his own narrative, he is a criminal,’’ he said.
He said that the
police claimed in their report the man who killed Oyerinde as well as
the gun used to murder him were already in police custody at the time of
the incident.
“They wrote a report
which is their own report that the man, who was involved in the murder
including the entry made by a DPO in a police station, was already under
police detention.
“The weapon that was
used for the murder was used for armed robbery earlier, recovered by
the police and under police custody at the time my secretary was
murdered.
“So, the man who
murdered my secretary was in police custody, the gun used was in police
custody and this is the findings of the police”, he said.
According to him, “the only conclusion that can be reached was the police ordered the murder of my private secretary.”
He said, “The
officer went and this is in black and white, I ask you to read it that
he has done a thorough job under a very skillful DIG in charge of Force
CID and the sky is their limit.
“And I ask the Vice
President to report to the President that if they do not find the
killers of Olaitan, he can’t expect the people of Edo state and all
those who know Olaitan, to have confidence in the security agencies.
“I feel terrible
that as a Governor, I can’t get justice. If I can’t get justice then an
average Nigerian cannot expect justice and we can’t have justice if we
can’t tell the truth”.
Oshiomhole also
lamented that one of the problems of the Nigeria-state including the
police and even in the civil service was the culture of impunity where
people do things wrongly and got away with it.
“This country cannot
be reduced to banana republic,’’ he said, adding “When the stick and
carrot were appropriately applied, the message of discipline would be
clear to all.
“I think one of the
problems of the Nigeria-state including the police and even in the civil
service is the culture of impunity that people do things and get away
it.”
Speaking further
Oshiomole narrated another incident against the police in Edo state. His
words, “I want to be specific, a policeman manned an illegal road block
contrary to the orders of the IG, members of the public complained and
the fact of the illegal block is established.
“It was discovered
that a soldier was recruited illegally by an ASP to man this illegal
road block and extorting money. In my view that borders on armed robbery
because the man carries arm, without the arm he cannot subdue the road
user to part with his money.
“If you take money
with the aid of arm, you an armed robber. Having arrested them, the army
proceeded to do what a responsible force should do, dismissed the
soldier.
“IG, you will be
shocked to know and this is not ten years ago, that your men in Benin,
decided to shield this officer and recently, I learnt that one of them
was even promoted.
“While the military
dismissed the soldier, the police promoted their own. How can you have
discipline in such an environment, I will plead that your ordered the
dismissal of those policemen today.
“When we begin to apply the stick and carrot appropriately, the message of discipline will be clear.”
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