Activist Backs Aragbiji Over Cousin’s Murder, Wants Justice For Police Officer, Killed By DSS

A Rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has thrown his weight behind the position of Osun monarch, the Aragbiji of Irabiji, Oba Abdur-Rasheed Ayotunde Olabomi, Odundun IV over the killing of his cousin, Prince Saheed Olabomi, by trigger happy Police Officer, one
Sergeant Adamu Garuba, on 27th July, 2021, during the gridlock at the Oke-Oniti area of Osogbo, the State capital.

Penultimate week, the monarch during a press conference held at his Palace in Iragbiji, alleged the authority of Nigeria Police Force in the land of shielding Sergeant Garuba from facing the law for
killing the younger Olabomi despite the report of the autopsy claiming that Olabomi died as a result of gunshot fire on his head by Garuba, insisting that the Police have refused to make the Garuba and his cohorts available in Court for their trial.

According to Oba Olabomi, “Since the incidence, the Nigeria Police Force Osun State Command led by Mr. Olawale Olokode, the Commandant Mopol 39, Mr Sebastian Moorkwap, whose Aides are the person who committed the act and especially the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone XI Mr. Mukan Joseph Gobum have conspired to sweep the ignoble act of criminality of the personnel under the carpet”.

Speaking on the issue on Monday through a press statement, Comrade Sulaiman, who called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC) and Minister of Police Affairs, to take immediate necessary actions on the officer and his cohorts alleged of committing dastard act by ensuring that they made them available in Court to face their prosecution of killing innocent young Olabomi at the prime age.

He urged the Police authorities in the country, particularly, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Baba Usman Alkali to fish out the trigger happy Sergeant Garuba and his co-travellers to face the
music of the crime being committed in the Court of law by bringing them to justice in order to serve as deterrent to others, stating that it is Saheed Olabomi today, it might be another Nigeria citizen
tomorrow.

Saluting the courage of Oba Olabomi to take the matter up with the authority of the Nigeria Police Force in the press, Sulaiman, who is the Executive Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), maintained that his organization (CHRSJ) would not allow the young Olabomi to die in vain by getting justice for the family of the deceased.

The CHRSJ Chief added that the rights group would soon petition the appropriate quarters including President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo and host of others for their necessary action on the subject matter.

Further speaking, Sulaiman who doubles as a Convener, Save Lagos Group (SLG), urged the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olawale Olokode not to allow 35-year old Police Officer attached to Dada Estate Police Station, Rauf Fawale, to die in vain, commending the State Government
under the leadership of Governor Gboyega Oyetola for approving the Coroner inquest to unravel the alleged killing of the late Police operative by men of State Security Service believing that the Corona Panel headed by Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara would do justice to the sensitive issue.

It would be recalled that late Fawale, was said to have attended a birthday party organized by his colleague identified as Inspector Modinat Badmus on 21st January, 2021, when a fight broke out at the party held at Riverside Club in Osogbo, informing that the fight ensued between three DSS officials, who were also attending the party, and some guests. Fawale was said to have intervened before he was beaten mercilessly and brutalized and later died after at the hospital as a result of injuries sustained.