● Says Senator Oyewumi Saves Police from Reprisal Attacks Families of those killed and injured at Ikire have warned the Osun sta...
● Says Senator Oyewumi Saves Police from Reprisal Attacks
Families of those killed and injured at Ikire have warned the Osun state All Progressives Congress, APC against politicizing the killing of their kinsmen by police operatives, asserting that the incident has nothing to do with politics but mainly about extra judicial killings by the police led by the Divisional Police Officer of Ikire.
Reacting to accusations and allegations by the Ikire/Osun APC, the families rebuked any attempt to lessen the severity of the Ikire killings by mixing it with politics and declare that “the sad incident is neither about Accord or APC but about criminal conduct of a team of police officers who killed innocent citizens, our bread winners.
According to the representative of the families of the victims, Mr Teslim Shittu while lamenting on Saturday, “We know those who killed our men. We know the policemen who shot and killed for no reason. It was not a political issue because there was no political event at the park as at the time of the cold blooded murder. The park was not playing host to APC or Accord before the DPO led his men of six to launch sporadic gun attacks on the park.
“Attempt to drag Senator Akogun Lere Oyewumi into the matter is a diversionary tactic to cover up the criminal conduct of the fingered policemen. We reject this orchestrated cover up and we reiterate that the Senator was the helper who calmed down the near mob reaction after the killings.
“The Senator intervened to diffuse the situation which could have snowballed into community wide retaliatory actions by distrustful residents. We task the higher police authorities and members of the public to ignore the fake news about alleged involvement of Senator Oyewumi. The allegation was a conspiracy plot to shield the policemen who aether culprits in the dastardly killings.
“We reject attempts by Osun APC to silence us through monetary inducement. We abhor blood money. We will not sacrifice justice on the altar of evil money. Those who killed innocent citizens must face the full weight of the law.
“We reiterate our demands for justice. We have identified the policemen who shot and killed our loved ones. They must face the law. No amount of propaganda can wash away the implicating facts which many apart from us witnessed in broad daylight”’, the families representative declared.
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