By Isaac Olamikan - Edo
Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr. Victor Sabor Edoror, has condemned the way and manner the security agencies in the state extra judicially kill people in the state.
He made this condemnation when the Conference of Non-Governmental Organisations (CONGO’s Edo State), staged a protest to Edo State House of Assembly over the death (in the custody of the Nigeria Police) of Mr. Benson Obode, a 26 years old man who hails from Ubierumu Oke, Uromi in Esan North East local government area of Edo State.
The Speaker, who berated the high rate of Police extra judicial killings by the police also frowned at the rate at which people commit crimes in the state that it was also wrong for the police to take the laws into their hands without following the due process.
The President of CONGO’s Edo State said that they were at the House of Assembly “to bring to your notice, the extra judicial killing by the Police, of Mr. Benson Obode, a native of Ubierumu Oke Uromi, in Esan North East local government area of Edo state,” noting that “police extra judicial killings is today, becoming too rampant as such, urgent and pragmatic measures need be taken to check the ugly trend.”
One of the deceased brothers, Mr. Obode Solomon said that his late brother was arrested by men and officers of SARS from Ikeja Lagos in collaboration with SARS attached to the office of the Commissioner of Police, Edo State Police Command, Benin City, on 21st May, from his home at Ohovba Quarters, Ikpoba Hill, Benin city, on allegation that he bought a stolen vehicle.
He said that all attempts to reach his brother failed and that they later discovered that he had died in custody of the Police.
In a protest letter entitled; ‘Extra Judicial Killings Of People In Edo State By Men Of The Nigeria Police: Request For Justice for Prosecution’, a copy of which was obtained by Daily Independent, CONGOs demanded answers to why the Police denied the family of the deceased access to him even as they also demanded that policemen involved in the gruesome murder of the “young man, should be brought to book and that an independent autopsy be conducted to reveal the remote cause of the death of Mr. Benson.”
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