Osun Monarch Accuses Police of Cover-up Over Killing of Relative; Asks Buhari, Police Council to Call AIG to Order

A prominent traditional ruler in Osun, Oba Abdulrasheed Olabomi, on Wednesday cried out over allegation of cover up against the police hierarchy over the killing of a member of his family, the late Saheed Ajibola Olabomi.
The younger Olabomi was killed at the Oke Onitii area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital allegedly by police team led by Sgt. Adamu Garuba, Sgt. Ajibola Dupe, Sgt. Atighir Lawrence, and Sgt. John Yilkur.
The monarch in statement read at a press conference on Wednesday alleged that Sgt. Adamu Garuba was said to have pulled the trigger that killed his nephew.
Oba Olabomi said, “Since the incidence, the Nigeria Police Osun State Command led by Mr. Olawale Olokode the Commandant Mopol 39 Mr. Sebastian Moorkwap whose Aids are the personnel 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.”
He said the family had insisted that the late Saheed Olabomi be taken to the hospital and a autopsy was conducted by the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo which established the fact that Mr. Saheed Olabomi was killed as a result of the injuries he received from the shot fired by Garuba Adamu.
He said, “All efforts at ensuring that Adamu Garuba and others were tried by the police (orderly Room Trial) failed even though our family and members of the public were made to believe that the Police Officer had been dismissed and that he would be prosecuted.
“For more than six months, the suspects were not arraigned. Our family had to seek the take-over of the matter by the state. Yet, it took several months before the file could be released to the Ministry.
“Even after the release of the file, we have been in court twice, the police personnel were not brought to court despite the service of court order to produce the suspects on the Commissioner of Police.”
The monarch said on inquiry, it was discovered that Aig Mr. Mukan, Joseph Gobum was said to have been pressured by the Commandant Mopol 39 Mr. Moorkwap to subvert justice and exonerate a murder suspect.
Calling on the Nigerian President, to intervene, the monarch said there is an attempt to bury clear case of murder all because the perpetrator is a police personnel.
“I also call on the Inspector General of Police Mr. Usman Alkali Baba to direct the AIG Zone XI and his other Co-travellers to revisit the matter and allow justice to take its full course on the culprits.
“I solicit the support of all media, Civil Society organizations, the Political Class and all Nigerians so that the blood of Saheed Olabomi who sadly left his aged parents, wife and children untimely will not be in vein.
“I call on all Nigerians to save us from the pains of losing our son and not finding justice.
“I like to conclude by calling on the President Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Inspector General of police, the Committee on Police Affairs at the Senate and the House of Representatives, Civil Society Organisations, the media and all Nigerians to call on the AIG Zone XI Osogbo the commissioner of Police Osun State and MOPOL 39 Commander Osogbo to stop covering up Murder charges against Mr. Adamu Garuba and others who carried out the killing of our son Saheed Olabomi on July 27, 2022.”