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Published 13 March 2021
Published 13 March 2021
A resident of Erin-Osun in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, Teslim Ibitoye, has narrated how some policemen allegedly shot his brother dead in 2017 and refused to release his corpse since then.
Teslim, who spoke on Friday before the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality, human rights violations and extrajudicial killings, said the cops also inflicted an injury on his spinal cord.
The petitioner explained that the killing of his brother, Akeem Ibitoye, who he described as the breadwinner of the family, had impacted negatively on the family’s wellbeing.
A petitioner, Olusegun Olaosebikan told the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings at its resumed sitting on Friday that the killing of his father made him to become a school dropout.
Olaosebikan, who approached the panel to seek justice for the murder of his father, said the killing also rendered the family wretched as tangible and intangible properties of the deceased were disposed of to take care of his hospital and other bills following the gunshots he received from a police officer.
Narrating his ordeal, Olaosebikan said his late father was shot by the police on January 1st, 2001 when he and the deceased were returning from crossover prayer night to herald the New Year.
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The Osun State Government has threatened to shut down the operation of Prism Steel Mills, Ikirun, if it does not comply with the health and safety recommendations.
The state gave the warning on Friday during an inspection tour of officials of the State’s Ministry of Environment and Sanitation to the industry.
The officials of the state Government had, last year, conducted an Environmental Audit on the facilities of Prism Steel Mills, Ikirun, and Ife Iron and Steel Company.
The state government recommended that the Steel Mills should, among other things, install a Pollution Abatement Plant (PAP) to considerably reduce the effect of steel production from metal scraps on the atmosphere, environment, and human life.
By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo
The Chairman, Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Extra Judicial Killings, Justice Akin Oladimeji (rtd.), on Friday disclosed that it reserved its recommendations as part of efforts to ensure adequate compensations for everyone.
He said the panel reserved its recommendations in some of the cases already concluded in line with judicial procedure.
Justice Oladimeji who reaffirmed the commitment of the panel to ensure fairness and equity in all the petitions brought before it, said the panel cannot compel government to specific amount as compensation but can recommend to it.
Addressing journalists shortly after the proceedings on Friday, Justice Oladimeji held that it was procedural for the panel to conclude all the cases, put its recommendations on paper and present same to government for adequate implementation and compensations.