Olaitan Oyerinde
Executive
Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, Rev.
David Ugolor, on Thursday accused the Inspector- General of Police,
Mohammed Abubakar, of shielding those who killed Olaitan Oyerinde.
Oyerinde was the Principal Private
Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, before
he was killed a year ago.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Ugolor,
who had earlier been detained by the police in connection with the
murder, urged President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene and order the IG
to reopen the case.
He said, “The only way we can end
impunity in Nigeria is to bring people to justice. The earlier the
president intervenes, the better for this country.”
Blaming insurgency in the country on
“high-level of impunity”, Ugolor, accused the police of implicating him
in the murder by torturing suspects to confess that he was the one that
killed Oyerinde.
According to him, the police under the
Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Peter Gana and the Deputy
Commissioner of Police, DC Ezekiel, “used torture to extract statement
from those they connived with to implicate me.”
He added, “To end the culture of impunity in this country, Peter Gana and his co-investigators should be brought to justice.”
Ugolor, however, described the ruling of
the Court of Appeal, Benin which ordered the Police to pay him N5m for
illegal detention as “a victory for the people”.
Commending Oshiomhole for the successful
conduct of the April 20 council poll in the state, Ugolor appealed to
aggrieved parties to go to tribunal instead of resorting to violence.
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