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| Photo: Bose Bajulaye (inset: Joseph) |
At last, information emerged early this
week that the son of a widow, Mrs. Bose Bajulaye, Joseph, whom the State
Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command,
had earlier denied was ever in...
their custody, had been killed by men of
the squad as early as November 2013.
A report published in a national daily
stated that Joseph was shot and killed by SARS men when he was trying to
escape from custody. He was described as a fake soldier.
This new development comes as a tragic
climax to the case which has brought reactions from various sections of
the society on what the duty of the police should be in a society.
The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar
Association, Ikeja Branch, Mr. Onyekachi Ubani, challenged the police to
produce the suspect’s body.
He said the command’s explanation on how Joseph died was an afterthought. The human rights community must rise up and demand justice in this
case. There is a problem of extra-judicial killing daily in most of
Nigeria’s police formations. These things are done while authorities
that are supposed to correct this anomaly have done nothing. It is an
anomaly. Lives are being wasted because nobody has ever being punished
for this crime.
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...another soul gone just like that.
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