The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions has indicted Inspector Dikko Usman of the Nigeria Police Drive and others within the homicide of Chief Fatai Jubril, the Baale of Lotu neighborhood in Ibeju-Lekki Native Authorities Space of the state.
PUNCH Metro additionally learnt on Monday that the officer had been dismissed from the pressure and charged in courtroom.
The indictment of the inspector was detailed within the DPP’s advisory addressed to the Assistant Inspector Basic of Police, Zone 2 Command Headquarters, and sighted by our correspondent on Saturday.
The advisory, signed by the DPP Deputy Director, Sunmonu Tunde, on behalf of the state Legal professional Basic and Commissioner for Justice, additional acknowledged that Dikko, together with Omotola Adeboyejo and Wasiu Agbaraojo, could be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit homicide and homicide.
The deceased chief was reportedly shot to loss of life within the presence of his spouse, Ejiro Jubril, and teenage daughter within the Ibeju-Lekki space of Lagos State on July 15, 2023, over a land dispute.
The widow advised our correspondent, who visited the neighborhood in 2023, that she was assaulted whereas making an attempt to avoid wasting her husband from being killed by about 50 hoodlums, together with two Cellular Law enforcement officials.
“I begged them to spare my husband. They began beating me after I held on to my husband. They stated my husband and I had been going to die collectively. I used to be slapped by completely different individuals after I was making an attempt to guard my husband as a result of the beating was an excessive amount of,” she stated.
The deceased’s elder brother, Moshood, additionally stated, “They killed my brother proper in entrance of his daughter and his spouse. They took the physique to Akodo Police Station, the place we met with the DPO, IPO, and others.”
In the meantime, the DPP, in its advisory, famous that the medical explanation for the chief’s loss of life certificates and the accounts supplied by different eyewitnesses supported the reason for loss of life of the deceased which attributed the loss of life of the deceased to sporadic gunshots by one of many Cellular Policemen procured by Omotola Adeboyejo to the scene on July 15, 2023.”
Regardless of a number of eyewitness claims that the 2 Cellular Law enforcement officials employed by Adeboyejo fired the photographs that killed the deceased, the DPP acknowledged that the ballistic report linked Jubril’s loss of life to photographs fired from Usman’s rifle.
The report learn partially, “Info within the duplicate case file reveal that one Chief Fatai Jubril Asalu was shot at on July 15, 2023, at Museyo neighborhood, Ajah, and died because of the gunshot accidents to the top as indicated within the Medical Explanation for Demise Certificates dated August 23, 2023, issued by one Dr. O.O. Onayemi, Lagos State College Instructing Hospital, Ikeja.
“As to which of the 2 Cellular Policemen fired the photographs that killed the deceased, whereas conflicting eyewitness accounts point out that each Dikko Usman and Nura Sanni, who had been Cellular Policemen on the scene, fired gunshots, nonetheless, the ballistic report with Reference Quantity AR:4100/X/FSL/B.14/2023 dated October 5, 2023, on forensic examination of 1 expended casing (shell), two TO6 assorted riffles with Breach Nos. 07022939 and 07004676 with three magazines containing 78 lives of ammunition and extracted bullet fragments, each riffles reveal residue of burnt propellant, indicating they had been fired someday and their working mechanisms are full.
“However Riffle No. 07022939, held by Sanni, displayed a malfunction of the extractor and ejector.”
When requested why the second Cellular Police officer, Inspector Sanni, was not charged in courtroom for a similar offence, Ayuba Umma, the spokesperson for Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan, stated in an interview with PUNCH Metro on Monday that Sanni had been demoted.
“They weren’t on unlawful obligation. The one improper factor was using firearms. The 2 of them had been on obligation on the day of the incident, however one in every of them was accused of capturing.
“That is much like a state of affairs the place two officers are on obligation and one commits an offence. It doesn’t imply the opposite officer ought to be held liable for an offence they didn’t commit.
“Nonetheless, this doesn’t imply he wasn’t punished. He was demoted in rank. It’s one thing we do internally,” Umma acknowledged.
