Nigeria Union of Journalists , Oyo State Council has demanded justice for late Kehinde Omotosho who died in police custody recently.in Ibadan, the state capital after spending five days in custody.
NUJ in a statement by its Chairman, Comrade Ademola Babalola and Secretary, Comrade Sola Oladapo decried the ill treatment and flagrant violation of the rights of the affected citizens. The union argued that prior to his unlawful arrest, detention and death, the deceased had no underlying medical ailment.
“At the point of arrest, both Mr. Omotosho and Mr. Jelili Razaq requested to know the crime for which they were being arrested but instead, the police officers gun-whipped them with their weapons several times. Thereafter, the police officers from the Agugu Police Division returned to the Agugu Station while officers from the Anti-Cultism Unit proceeded with both the deceased and Mr. Jelili Razaq to the State CID. They were thereafter locked in the cell, alongside about 130 inmates.
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