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THE Chairman, Committee on Peaceful Coexistence between Fulani/Bororo and the Crop Farmers in Osun State, Mr Mudasiru Toogun, said Fulani herdsmen, especially the Bororo among them, on different occasions shot at and asked their cows to attack him and members of his committee.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, Toogun, who is also a Special Adviser to Osun State Governor on Peaceful Coexistence between Fulani/Bororo and the Crop Farmers, said Bororo herders always attacked Fulani herdsmen.
According to him, even though criminality has no ethnic colouration, Nigerians are linking Fulani/Bororo to more criminal activities because the group is problematic.
Panel summons ex-CP, three others over Osun killing
Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo
Retired Commissioner of Police, who served in Osun State, Mr John Moronike, and Area Commander of Ilesha Command, Mr Joshua Atunise, have been summoned over alleged killing of a former student of Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, Taiwo Daniel, in 2008.
Two other police officers, simply identified as Omoyele and Muyiwa, were also asked by the state panel on police brutality to appear before it for unlawful arrest and maiming of a community leader, Chief Adanku Oyinlola in Osogbo in 2016.
At the Thursday’s sitting, the chairman of the panel, Justice Akin Oladimeji (retd.), said Moronike and Atunise were being asked to appear following non-compliance with the judgement of the court that ordered that the corpse of late Taiwo, who reportedly died in the cell of Nigeria Police Force in November 29, 2008 after he was shot at Ilo-Ijesa.
Osun panel summons ex-commissioner, three police officers over extortion, violation of human rights Osun panel summons ex-commissioner, three police officers over extortion, violation of human rights
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Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry sitting in Osogbo, on Thursday, summoned the former Osun State Commissioner of Police, John Omoronike, and three police officers for refusing to release the corpse of Babatunde Daniel, a final year Mechanical Engineering Students of Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, that was killed by the then Area Commander of Ilesa, Osun State, Mr Joshua Atunise, after tagging him an armed robber.
The Chairman of the panel, Retired Justice Akin Oladimeji, who gave the order that the police officers must appear before the panel at its next sitting fixed for February 18, 2021, and that their appearances are mandatory.