“We did not arrest anyone because as it is, we are applying diplomacy to avoid escalating issues.”
Also, yesterday, Youth and Sports Minister, Sunday Dare and the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed joined Nigerians in commiserating with the family of Kazeem, who was allegedly pushed out of a moving vehicle by the SARS operative at the weekend. Angered by Kazeem’s death, Sagamu youths, who felt the police were attempting to exonerate their operatives of complicity, took to the streets demanding the scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad .
“They were the ones who tried to burn down the police station but we dispersed them. We did not fire any shot despite the provocation from them. We know some people were trying to push the police to the wall so that they will say see what has happened. That was why there was strict instruction on the men not to use force.
“Those paid to protect the citizens should not be the ones snuffing lives out of them.”Dare insists that though probing the incident will not restore the dead to life, a clear message must be sent by making the perpetrators account for their evil deeds.
It also refuted the preliminary reports on the killing released by the Nigeria Police Force , maintaining that he was killed last Saturday by a policeman attached to the Ogun Command.Speaking through their Lawyers and the family spokesman, Adegbesan Adenola, Ogunsanmi Abisoye, and Ganiyu Tiyamiyu respectively in a statement, the family said the denial by the Police was only meant to exonerate the policeman alleged to have committed the offence.
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