Judiciary

Be Factual- Oyo Judicial Panel Tells Police Witness

By Web News 623

A Police witness, Inspector Adeyera Ayodele has been urged to be factual while testifying before the Oyo State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality.
Panel chairman, Retired Justice Badejoko Adeniji gave the charge during hearing on petition OYJPPB/065 against Waheed Olarenwaju who defiled a 13 year old Ifeoluwa Akintunde.
During cross examination, the victim’s counsel, Mr Akeem Adekola had sought to confirm from Inspector Adeyera if it was true that it was victim that shouted ‘thief, thief’ when the suspect was trying to escape on the fateful day the Ode Oolo boys beat him to death, as contained by Mrs Funmilayo Ojo, the victim’s mother.
In response, police inspector affirmed the content of the victim’s mother statement.
The panel queried the way the victim and the suspect boarded the same bike as contained in the statement of the victim’s mother presented to the panel by Police.
The late Waheed Olarenwaju was alleged to have defiled a 13 year old girl Akintunde Ifeoluwa at Galaxy Oke Are Ibadan around 6.30 in the evening on January 10, 2021.
His corpse was allegedly taken to a private mortuary before it was later referred to Adeoyo hospital.
The Panel therefore ordered the counsel to the Police, Mr Matthew Ojeh to produce the two police men who recorded the statement on the 10th of June 2021 around 9:30pm, and that Funmilayo Ojo the mother of the girl that was defiled should appear before the panel.
The panel then adjourned the petition till 22 June 2021 for further hearing.

Funmilola Obagbayegun

Judiciary

Oyo Judicial Panel: Family Requests Corpse of slain member

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The family of a deceased, Waheed Olarenwaju has made an application before Oyo State Judicial Panel on Police Brutality that his corpse be released for burial.

Counsel to the family, Mr Adekola Kareem made the appeal at today’s sitting of retired Justice Badejoko Adeniji-led panel in a petition with OYJPPB/065.

The late Waheed Olarenwaju was alleged to have defiled a 13 year old girl Akintunde Ifeoluwa at Galaxy Oke Are Ibadan around 6.30 in the evening on January 10th, 2021.

Ifeoluwa was said to have been defiled by the deceased, who had sent her on an errand.

On hearing about the sexual assault, the teen’s mother who happen to be a member of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, called her colleague who then arrested Waheed Olanrewaju.

Olanrewaju was said to have tried to escape while being taken to the police station on a bike, which led to his being beaten to death by the OPC members and IfeOluwa’s mother.

Thereafter, they allegedly carried Olanrewaju’s corpse to the police station where it was later deposited at the Adeoyo Hospital mortuary.

During a cross examination, the defense counsel to the police Mr Matthew Ojeh said investigation was still going on the matter.

The Panel therefore ordered the counsel to the Police to produce the mother of the girl defiled by Olanrewaju, Mrs Funmilayo Ojo along with Mr Oore-Ofe Temitope, the okada rider that carried the deceased on the day he was beaten to death.

The panel then adjourned the petition till 15th June 2021 for further hearing.

Funmilola Obagbayegun

Judiciary

ENDSARS: Oyo Judicial Panel Inspects Damaged Properties at Kannike Ode-ye

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Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality on Thursday visited Kannike Ode-ye Community Ibadan where residents alleged that some unknown hoodlums vandalised their houses and shops during the last year’s EndSARS protest.

The visit of the panel was sequel to a petition written by the residents of the community who were appealing to the state government to compensate them for their loss.

According to the residents, more than fifty houses and shops were either  burnt or burgled.

Among the shops owners was Mr. Adeoye Adejare who said the protesters burnt thirty caskets he was selling.

During the visit, aimed  at assessing the level of damage done to the community, members of the Panel discovered that the degree of the damage were up to what some of the residents claimed.

The residents, who were not aware of the visit, were shocked when they were asked to show the property burnt or burgled but some of them failed to defend their claim. 

For example, one of them was claiming five million for sewing machine, and some clothes, including workshop.

A woman claimed to be selling Italian shoes, but her shop only contained used shoes and bags.

However, the visit almost turned violent when some residents claimed that they were not carried along when others were writing petitions.

Sunday Ogunyemi

Judiciary

Missing Car: Oyo Judicial Panel Summons DPO, Two Others

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Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality has summoned a one-time Divisional Police Officer of Bodija Police Station, Mr.  Morufu Odunayo, a police officer at the state Criminal Investigative Department CID Iyaganku, Tunde Ajibade known as Otanna and a guard at Le-Chateau Event Center, Bodija to appear before the panel over missing a missing car at the event Center. 

The owner of the car, Kunle Ajayi, had approached the Judicial Panel to complain about the poor treatment he received from the police. 

He said his car was parked at the event centre but after his business at the Center, the car went missing.

He told the Panel that a guard at the center directed him to park where he parked his car, expressing surprise that the car got missing. 

Ajayi said he approached the Police station at Bodija but nobody attended to him. 

The petitioner said he went to state CID, where he met an officer Tunde Ajibade known as Otanna, who collected fifteen thousand naira from from him before allowed him to write a petition.

He said when went back to follow up the petition, the officer threatened that he should not come back. 

When the Panel asked him for his prayer,  Ajayi requested the panel to order full investigation into the missing car, and to retrieve the fifteen thousand naira Otanna collected from him. 

Members of the Panel blamed the Police for their failure to make attempt to find the car. 

The Chairman of the panel, Emeritus Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Badejoko Adeniji told Counsel to Police Mr.  Mathew Ojeah to produce the two Police officers and also instructed the Panel’s Secretary to write the Management of the event center to appear before the panel with the guard that directed the petitioner to park. 

The petition was adjourned till April 14, 2020.

Sunday Ogunyemi