By Family Seeks Justice Over WAEC Student Killed By NSCDC; Debunks Ajimobi’s Visit
The family of 18-year-old Lateefat Kofoworola Abubakar, who was shot in the head by an official of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) last weekend in Oyo state, southwest, Nigeria, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, the state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to assist in ensuring that justice prevails in the gruesome murder of their daughter.
The deceased was killed by the NSCDC personnel at Idi-Oro, Dugbe area of Ibadan while on her way to get drugs at the pharmacy store.
It was gathered that the late Kofoworola who wrote her last WAEC papers three days before her sudden death, had earlier complained of headache at about 12noon on the fateful Saturday.
It was further gathered that a fracas had ensued between two factions of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area, during the conduct of the May 13th local government elections in the state and NSCDC men who were supposed to control the situation started shooting sporadically from the vehicle on getting to the scene.
Her elder sibling, Gbemisola, who address newsmen in Ibadan today, said what they want is justice since the NSCDC personnel lied he lost his foothold while he was coming down from their vehicle and his gun triggered off by itself “we pray to Allah to grant my sister Aljanah Firdaus. But all we seek for is justice,” Gbemisola noted.
Gbemisola rues the NSCDC personnel’s statement when her family visited him in police custody. According to her, ‘’what he (the suspect) told us is pure lie, how can a security person who have common sense said gun triggered itself while he was coming down from the vehicle.
In his reaction, father of the victim, Kolawole Abubakar, debunked reports making the rounds that the governor has visited to commiserate with the family.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State Police Command spokesperson, Adekunle Ajisebutu in his reply to journalists over the weekend said the suspect, an NSCDC personnel, is in police custody.
According to Ajisebutu the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Odude, has directed the State Investigation and Intelligence Department, Iyaganku to carry out diligent investigation into the incident.
