On the 2oth of Oct, 2011, a police officer killed Miss Tayo Abe, a native
of Orin in Ido/Osi LGA of Ekiti State and this police officer took to his
heels as soon as he shot this young lady to death. This dastardly act
aroused the anger of the youth in the town by a mass protest to the police
station in Ido Ekiti, the headquarter of the Local Government
On the 2oth of Oct, 2011, a police officer killed Miss Tayo Abe, a native
of Orin in Ido/Osi LGA of Ekiti State and this police officer took to his
heels as soon as he shot this young lady to death. This dastardly act
aroused the anger of the youth in the town by a mass protest to the police
station in Ido Ekiti, the headquarter of the Local Government
Unfortunately, this led to another rounds of shooting by the police, thus
injuring innocent people and armless protesters. The Olojudo of Ido
Ekiti, HRM, Oba Ayorinde Faboro employed all means to pacify these trigger
happy policemen but his pleas fell on deaf ears to the extent that a bullet from the police riffle penetrated the leg of monarch’s aide that accompanied him.
The Inspector General of police, Mr Hafiz Ringim, is hereby called upon to
constitute a panel of serious minded officers to properly investigate and to critically look into this issue and bring the erring officers to book.
This killing must not be swept under the carpet as history has taught us
that such act might be waived aside as it involves an
innocent lady without a bigwigs in Abuja who can pressurize the authority
to take action. This message is to remind our dear Inspector General of
Police that this particular dastardly act would be challenged until
something is done.
We implore the Inspector General of Police to make the investigation
transparent and involve the community members without any prejudice as
this is a serious case of culpable homicide. While the investigation is in
progress, effort must be made to offer treatment to the
the wounded ones during the protest as matter of urgency and priority.
This barbaric act of our Nigerian POLICE must be condemned in a strong terms.
***Yemi Ayodele Ayeni is a concerned citizen from Ekiti state, a co-founder
of Federation of Ekiti State Students in Nigeria, former General Secretary
to the Student Union Government, University of Ilorin. .
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