BREAKING NEWS, Judiciary
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THE Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, CHRSJ, has petitioned the inspector general of Police, Police Service Commission, PSC, Nigeria Police Council, NPC, Police Affairs Commission, PAC, and host of others over an alleged torturing of Ganiyu Akinyemi, 21-year-old carpenter, to death by Kazeem Salawu, an assistant superintendent of police, ASP, and four others at Aboru area of Lagos State.
The CHRSJ also forwarded the copies of the petition to the President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State, leadership of the National Assembly, National Human Rights Commission, HNRC, International Community and others, calling on the Nigeria Police authority to properly follow the section 316 to 324 of the criminal code cap, with case and materials extras, laws of the federation 2004/2010 including questions and answers for police colleges act in this matter of Salawu and his cohorts.
The rights group, however, demanded justice for the family of deceased, urging the Police authority to ensure that justice would prevail in the matter no matter what. It also enjoined the Police authority to ensure that the other two suspects on the run were apprehended by the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department of the Police.
According to the petition titled: ‘Report of Mr. kazeem Salawu, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to Ogun State Police Command, Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Akeem Olatunbosun, Fuadh Omifioye, Yusuff (aka lemmy) and one other person that were arrested for illegal and unlawful torturing of a 21-year-old carpenter, Ganiyu Akinyemi to death at Omifioye avenue, Ago Estate, Aboru, Lagos State. Why the CHRSJ wants thorough investigation and your office proper intervention and true justice for the family of Ganiyu Akinyemi.’
Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, executive chairman of the CHRSJ, who signed the petition, urged the Police authority to warn the deputy commissioner of Police in charge of Lagos State CID not to do anything that would pervert cause of justice on the matter.
The petition reads in part: “The CHRSJ as a law abiding human rights group will not to allow the matter to be swept under the carpet until the perpetrators of the dastard act was brought to justice and we would not do anything to jeopardize the ongoing cosmetically investigation of the HOMICIDE “D4” OF the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Adekunle bus stop, Panti, Yaba over the subject matter of alleged murder of Ganiyu Akinyemi.
“As a reputable human rights body which is absolutely committed to the human rights campaign in our society, we will do the needful by approaching a court of competent jurisdiction to seek redress if the Police failed to bring justice to the family of Ganiyu Akinyemi for violating his fundamental human rights to life as stipulated by the Section 33 & 34 of the amended 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Sulaiman, therefore, urged the inspector general of Police to use his good office to ensure that justice prevailed on the matter, and described the alleged act of Salawu and his cohorts as “callous, barbaric, ungodly, evil, heartless, abomination, aberration, anathema, disheartening and criminality which against the natural justice.”
— Jan 4, 2016 @ 18:40 GMT
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