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| The late Lateef |
The Oyo
State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sina Olukolu, have been urged to launch
investigation into the extra judicial killing Mr Jimoh Abdul Lateef.
Members of Sepeteri
community in the Saki-East Local Government of Oyo State, who petitioned
Olukolu, said that the late Lateef was an indigene of the town from Agoro
Compound.
In the
petitioned signed by their counsel, AY Aderogba and co. dated October 17, 2019,
Sina was urged to fish out officers responsible for the murder of the deceased.
According to
the petition, Lateef, who was on his motorcycle, was killed on his way to his
place of work at Gari processing factory, Obatule Akoto area of Sepeteri.
It is believed
that body of the deceased was taken away by his killers.
The petition
states: "The Divisional Police officer in Ago-Amodu was immediately
contacted, but he denied that the officers were 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 were from Igbeti."
According to
the letter, 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 he died in the process while his remains were
deposited at the General Hospital Igbeti, but his family members were not
allowed to see his corpse.
The lawyer opined
that Lateef’s life was cut short by trigger-happy policemen, leaving his family
in pains. Lateef also left a widow and children.
The elders
thereafter called on the commissioner of Police, "as a matter of urgency
to direct thorough 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.”
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