Segun James
Following the killing of her husband during the EndSARS protest, a widow, Mrs. Olamide Erinfolami, has pleaded for justice over her husband’s killing.
Mrs. Erinfolami who said that her husband, Inspector Ayodeji Erinfolami, was shot on the stomach on October 12 in the Surulere area of Lagos during the #EndSARS protest, told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of rights abuses by the police, that she believed that her husband was shot by one of his fellow policemen.
Led in evidence by her lawyer, Mr. Gbemiga Ogunleye, Olamide told the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel that though the Lagos State Government gave the family N10m compensation, “money cannot buy our joy.”
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Mrs Olamide Erinfolami, widow of the late Inspector Ayodeji Erinfolami, who was shot on the stomach on October 12 in the Surulere area of Lagos during the #EndSARS protest, has pleaded for justice over her husband’s killing.
The widow, who appeared on Friday before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of rights abuses by the police, said she believed that her husband was shot by one of his fellow policemen.
Led in evidence by her lawyer, Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, Olamide told the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel that though the Lagos State Government gave the family N10m compensation, “money cannot buy our joy.”
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Olamide Erinfolami, the wife of a police officer who was killed during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos has accused the Nigerian Police Force of killing her husband.
In her petition before the judicial panel set up in Lagos to investigate excesses of the disbanded SARS unit and other arms of the police, Mrs Erinfolami said her husband was killed while the police were trying to quell the #EndSARS protest at Surulere area of Lagos on October 12.
Gbemiga Ogunleye, the counsel to the victim, told the panel that the inspector was shot when the police tried to stop the protest aggressively.
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Hamzat Haruna, a police sergeant, has told the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry that Ndukwe Ekekwe, a suspect, jumped from a building and was not pushed.
Mr Haruna led police officers who allegedly pushed Mr Ekekwe from a two-storey building, leading to a major injury.
Mr Haruna is a police sergeant attached to the Inspector General of Police’s Special Tactical Squad in Lagos.
He was brought to the panel by the police counsel, Cyril Ejiafor, in a matter where SARS officials allegedly pushed a victim down a two-storey building and left him with a damaged spinal cord.