The Lagos State Council of
Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has decried attempts by some police officers
to “pervert justice, distort facts and stand the truth on its head” in the
ongoing matter of battered
the State Criminal Investigations
Department, SCID, Panti. The said officer was the IPO in the matter Badagry-based
journalist, Otunba Yomi Olomofe reports Vanguard.
In a statement in Ikeja yesterday
by its Chairman, Deji Elumoye, Lagos NUJ drew the attention of the
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, “to the unwholesome and grossly
unethical conduct of one
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| IGP, Arase |
Elumoye said: “The inspector, who
in spite of being availed of every fact in the matter, willfully
under-investigated the crime committed against Olomofe, chose to cooperate with
the perpetrators of the criminal assault and their sponsors.”
The union, therefore, called on
the Inspector General to probe the activities of the inspector over the said
matter. According to the release, NUJ was aware of efforts to twist the facts
by the customs through attempts to compromise the police investigating
Olomofe’s complaint. He added: “We will explore every constitutional means to
fight this particular grave injustice. We will, as we have consistently done
since the murderous attempt on the life of Olomofe, avail the Nigerian Public
of the facts in this matter till justice is served.”
Olomofe, it will be recalled, was beaten to coma
at the behest and in the presence of senior Seme Customs officials, including
Comptroller Ndalati, Deputy Comptroller Emmanuel Nkemdirim, armed junior
officers of the customs, and scores of onlookers on June 25, 2015, by well
known border hoodlums led by Suleimon Momoh.
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