…lawyer requires probe
The intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Assistant Inspector General of Police in command of Zone 2, Adegoke Fayoade, has thwarted an alleged try by the Legal professional Normal and Commissioner for Justice, Ogun State, to discontinue the investigations into homicide allegations towards Elijah Adeogun and 4 different individuals.
The Ogun State Legal professional Normal had earlier in January 2025 in a Nolle Prosequi directed an Ogun State Excessive Courtroom in Ilaro to discontinue one other homicide case and different prison proceedings involving Elijah and different individuals.
The suspects have been some days in the past arrested in reference to the killing of Saheed Shoboyejo within the Osuke space of Ado- Odo/ Ota Native Authorities Space of Ogun State ,the place different individuals have been reportedly injured.
AIG Fayoade confirmed that the suspects had been transferred to the Nigeria Police Pressure Headquarters in Abuja on the order of the Inspector General of Police for additional investigation.
Elijah Adeogun and 4 different individuals have been nonetheless underneath investigation, when the Ogun AG allegedly requested to take over the case from the police.
A human rights lawyer, Olayinka Sanni, has subsequently known as on the Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to “urgently arrange a Fee of Enquiry to research all the highest officers of the State Ministry of Justice, who’re concerned in sabotaging justice in homicide and different prison circumstances within the state.
The lawyer questioned the curiosity of the state Legal professional Normal that warranted him to provoke a Noile Prosecui circumstances for the suspect on the homicide allegation, even when one of many circumstances was nonetheless underneath investigations and but to be correctly charged by the police.
The Legal professional Normal of Ogun State had on the 19 of March, 2025, directed the Ota Justice of the Peace Courtroom to permit his workplace to take over the continuing of Elijah and different circumstances on behalf of the state authorities.
The AG who’s an SAN, within the letter to the Ota Justice of the Peace Courtroom dated March 19, 2025, wrote “Exercising powers conferred on the Legal professional Normal of Ogun State, underneath part 311(1)(c),243(1)of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended ) (SAN) Legal professional Normal and Commissioner for Justice hereby take continuing on behalf of Ogun State.”
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