The Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings on Friday ordered a subpoena compelling two officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps to appear before it for being allegedly involved in the killing of one *Master Idris Ajibola* on September 15, 2020.
The panel also ordered the State Ministry of Justice to provide relevant files in respect of the petition filed through one *Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetona* whose children had been allegedly murdered by using Police officers in Ilesa, Osun State, in 2016.
Recall that the parents of the late Idris Ajibola had approached the panel to are searching for justice within the gruesome homicide in their son who become allegedly chased to demise via the members of the Joint Task Force comprising infantrymen, police, DSS and NSCDC officers.
The deceased along two other occupants who had been inside the vehicle on the day of the incident have been allegedly chased alongside East-bypass Dual Carriage Circular Road, Osogbo, by way of the JTF personel.
It turned into pronounced that the automobile of the chased sufferers swerved off the road and rammed into a ditch and crashed leading to the immediate killing of the deceased.
When the case was returned for similarly listening to on Friday, the counsel for the petitioner, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola, filed an software and prayed the panel to reserve the appearance of the 2 diagnosed NSCDC officials who had been a few of the JTF personel that had been concerned within the incident.
He stated the appearance of the two erring officers might aid the investigation and provide guide to the prosecution of the case because the petitioner became capable of become aware of them by using call.
In his ruling, the Chairman of the Panel, Justice Akin Oladimeji (rtd.) granted the software and ordered the 2 erring officials -Inspector Jimi Awoniyi and Togun Babatunde -to appear earlier than the panel on March fifth, 2021, the adjourned date.
Justice Oladimeji ordered the immediate issuance of subphoana to the two officials for them to seem earlier than it for defence on the adjourned date.
He stated the advent of the two officials would supply extra credence to the defence of the case and similarly reinforce the principle of fair hearing and equity that has been the hallmarks of the panel.
Justice Oladimeji however adjourned the case to March 5th, 2020 for in addition hearing.
Similarly, the panel ordered the Ministry of Justice to provide all the important files concerning the prosecution of the case filed with the aid of one *Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetona* against the Police.
Mrs. Adetona approached the panel to are looking for redress within the homicide of her two children by way of Police officers in Ilesa.
Adetona had in her petition alleged that two of her children have been killed by law enforcement officials who drove recklessly at her house in Ilesa.
She defined that the deceased who were gambling within the the front of their residence have been killed via the electrical pole hit by the Police Patrol Vehicle.
The mother of the deceased, who had prayed the panel to be triumphant at the police to fish out the killers of her kids, said she became now not convinced that the erring officers have been brought to justice as claimed by using the police authority.
Ruling in the case, Justice Oladimeji ordered the Ministry of Justice to provide all the essential files in recognize of the case to decorate easy prosecution simply as he ordered the Police authority to provide relevant files to confirm the repute of the alleged officials if certainly they were brushed off by way of the police.
The panel disclosed that it had concluded 21 instances out of the 34 instances earlier than it.
According to the panel, 10 instances out of the finalised 21 cases are expecting final advice to the government while the ultimate 11 were struck out on the foundation of different irregularities.
The panel similarly discovered that thirteen cases had reached specific prosecution degrees just because it reiterated its commitment to allotting justice earlier than the stipulated time allocated to it.
The instances heard by using the panel on Friday were: OS/JPIPB/08/2020 *Chief Adegboyega Agbaje* & 1OR as opposed to Osun State Commissioner of Police; OS/JPIPB/12/2020 *Alhaji Dele Nafiu* versus Osun State Commissioner of Police; OS/JPIPB/27/2020 *Mr. Ibrahim Olagoke* as opposed to Osun State Commissioner of Police; OS/JPIPB/01/2020 *Alhaji Ayo Dauda Adigun* & 1OR versus Osun State Commissioner of Police; OS/JPIPB/eleven/2020 *Mr. Kehinde Ajibola* as opposed to Osun State Commissioner of Police.
Others have been: OS/JPIPB/28/2020 *Mrs. Oluwatoyin Adetona* as opposed to Osun State Commissioner of Police; OS/JPIPB/31/2020 Good Governance and Leadership Assessment Initiative versus Osun State Commissioner of Police; to and OS/JPIPB/32/2020 *Dr. Muyiwa Oladimeji* versus Osun State Commissioner of Police.
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