Edo
State Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Thursday in Abuja called for the
dismissal of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Peter Gana, who
supervised the investigation into the murder of his private secretary,
Olaitan Oyerinde.
Oshiomhole alleged that the DIG was
shielding the real killers and urged President Goodluck Jonathan to
intervene in the matter.
He said the State Security Service
apprehended Oyerinde’s suspected killers while the police arrested and
detained an innocent civil rights activist, Rev. David Ugolor, for two
months without trial in disobedience of a court order.
The governor, who canvassed for the
scraping of the Police Affairs ministry on the grounds that it
politicises the Force, noted that with a functional Police Service
Commission, the country would not need a ministry in charge of police
affairs.
The governor said this while delivering a
key note address at the inauguration of a Code of Conduct for officers
and men of the Nigeria Police, Vice-President, Namadi Sambo represented
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Oshiomhole said, “I am aggrieved; I am
aggrieved over the murder of my private secretary and the way in which
it was trivialised.
“I am saying it knowing that the Vice
President is here. My secretary was murdered in cold blood and you
dispatched a DIG to supervise that investigation; a DIG is a
sufficiently senior officer. They came to Benin and they did what Fela
(Ransome-Kuti) would have called police magic.
“At the end, they went for a civil rights activist and charged him for the offence of murder.”
Oshiomhole alleged that the DIG
conspired with other officers involved in the investigation to shield
the killers of Oyerinde, saying they were no longer fit to wear police
uniform.
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