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‘ I want justice for my son’s death’

By Odita Sunday
29 June 2016   |   3:58 am
Adebayo Oyenuga, a 40-year-old member of staff of Apapa local council, have raised the alarm over what he called ‘injustice’ allegedly perpetrated by policemen at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti Street, Yaba, Lagos.

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Adebayo Oyenuga, a 40-year-old member of staff of Apapa local council, have raised the alarm over what he called ‘injustice’ allegedly perpetrated by policemen at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti Street, Yaba, Lagos.
 
Oyenuga’s son, Ibrahim, was killed by a group of secondary school gangsters of the Stadium High School, Surulere, Lagos on May 20, 2016, at the lonely bush path of the Nigerian Brewery, Iganmu.
 
Following an inter-school squabble, some notorious students of Stadium school sighted the 16-year-old SS1 student of Randle Memorial Secondary School, Surulere, with his friend, one Mathew. Immediately, the duo of Ibrahim and Matthew were given a hot chase and were captured.

  
Oyenuga expressed shock over the action of the detectives, whom he accused of thwarting justice by releasing eight of the suspects, who were accomplice in the killing of his son. 
 
“I was at work when my wife called to tell me that my first son who is in SS1 at Randle Secondary school was stabbed somewhere around Nigeria Brewery area. I immediately rushed to the hospital where he was being treated. He was stabbed on his chest. I began to interview him while he was on his sick bed.
  
“The two schools have been having problems. Sometimes, they pelt stones at each other any time students of both schools met. My son could not run very well. He was caught by the students, who mobbed and stabbed him on the chest.

“When the stabbing was going on, his friend Mathew, hid himself and observed what transpired. It was Mathew who helped us to identify the culprits. It was when the police began to pick them in their houses that I was informed that my son had died.
 
“When I got the news of my son’s death, I was devastated. His mother fainted and was resuscitated. She was hospitalized for three weeks. My pain is that the police in State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) are not delivering justice. The police released seven of the suspects and kept only one.
 
“I am therefore calling on the Nigeria Police High command and Lagos State government to help me get justice because it is only justice that can give me consolation.”
 

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