A human rights organisation, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), has demanded for justice for late Oluwabamise Ayanwola, who was killed by a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, the late musician, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, and victims of the 2020 #EndSARS unrest.

CDHR Lagos State branch made the demand in collaboration with Movement for Justice.

Recall that Miss Ayanwola, 22, was declared missing on February 26, 2022, after boarding a BRT bus from the Ajah area of Lagos to Oshodi. Her body was found nine days later by the police.

Ayanwola was allegedly sexually abused and murdered, according to an autopsy report, inside a BRT bus on Saturday, February 26, 2022, around 7:30 p.m. between Chevron bus stop, Ajah and Lagos Island, while on board BRT No. 240257.

Lagos State Chairman for CDHR, Kehinde Adeoye, in a joint statement, said Ayanwole’s case has been in court since March 2022, and has suffered a series of unnecessary adjournments till date.

He commended the Lagos State House of Assembly for reacting to the outcry of the protest in March to the assembly on Tuesday, July 11.
The group therefore demanded for justice, stressing that the murderer of the deceased and four other persons in the BRT, at the time of the incident, should be identified and brought to justice as well.

CDHR also demanded that the deceased’s phone should be produced as it has great evidence and vital information about her death.
Also, legal consultant to Ayanwole’s family, Ayo Ademiluyi, said there are delays in persecuting the driver of the BRT and arrest of others involved in the murder of Miss Ayanwola.

Speaking about Mohbad’s death, Ademiluyi said: “We are worried that Mohbad’s persecutors and bullies have links to the Nigerian State going by videos and pictures on social media, which show Sam Larry and Naira Marley in the company of the Lagos State Governor, (Babajide) Sanwo-Olu and even President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“We are also not optimistic that the Nigeria Police can be trusted in investigating Mohbad’s death. In fact, the dispersal of mourners at the Lekki Toll Gate of #JusticeforMohbad by officers of the Nigeria Police is condemnable.”

He urged the coroner panel established to look at the issue to allow independent experts to conduct their own autopsy, as the one conducted by the police cannot be trusted.

Ademiluyi also called for the arrest and prosecution of military officers involved in the #EndSARS Lekki Toll gate massacre.

He added that the dead bodies of the #EndSARS victims should be brought out for examination by the pathologists for identification and have a proper befitting burial.

Bamise’s elder sister, Ayanwola Oluwadamilola, asked the Lagos State government not to abandon Mohbad’s case as it had allegedly done in Bamise’s case.

She noted that her sister’s case was getting to two years and though the case was in court, the Lagos State government had abandoned the case, noting that there was supposed to be court sitting on September 21, 2023, but the defence counsel was not in court, hence, the case was stalled, stressing that had remained the nature of the case since 2022.

“Justice must be served. The Lagos State government has really failed. They failed all the ladies, they failed all the mothers, they failed all the fathers because all those that have a hand in my sister’s death have not been brought to book yet,” she added.