An inquest into the death of Jumoke Oyeleke, a lady killed during a 'Yoruba Nation' rally in Lagos, has ruled that she died of a bullet shot from a police weapon.
, ‘Yoruba Nation’ agitators converged on the Ojota area of Lagos to demand an independent state for the south-west zone.Afterwards, Jumoke, a 25-year-old, was found dead at a location near the venue of the rally.The police, however, said it did not use live bullets, and denied involvement in Jumoke’s death.from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital showed that Jumoke died from “hemopericardium, disruption to the heart and lungs and missile injury to the chest”.
“To shoot at the protesters was unlawful and ultra vires to the 1999 constitution. In answering the question of how the deceased died, the only logical conclusion that one can reach is that the deceased died through a bullet shot from the weapon of [the] Nigerian police,” Fadeyi said.
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