A petitioner, Mr. Teslim Ibitoye, has narrated how he and his younger brother were shot by police over an offence they knew nothing about.
This is even as the wife of the deceased, Kafayat Ibitoye, urged the panel to “order the police authorities to release the corpse of her spouse” that had been withheld and kept in the morgue since 2017. He added, “On this fateful day, my younger brother and I went to see our cousin, one Mr. Nureni at Erin-Osun. Though we didn’t meet him at home, when we called him, he asked us to wait for him. But immediately he joined us, all I heard were gunshots. I couldn’t phantom were the gunshots were coming from. All I could remember was that I suddenly became unconscious.
“But to my surprise, after few weeks, some officers sneaked us out of the Command and I was taken to Abuja where I spent few days. “We took the matter to the High Court, Osogbo, after my release but I was not satisfied with the judgement as the matter was struck out unjustly. Though the interpretation of the judgement was that our arrest at that material time was because of the proliferation of kidnapping.
The petitioners further appealed to the panel to award them reasonable compensation to cuushion the effect of all that had happened to them.
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