The Lagos Shape Directorate of Population Prosecutions has indicted Inspector Dikko Usman of the Nigeria Police Drive and others within the homicide of Prominent Fatai Jubril, the Baale of Lotu crowd in Ibeju-Lekki Native Executive Branch of the order.
PUNCH Metro additionally learnt on Monday that the officer have been pushed aside from the pressure and charged in court docket.
The indictment of the inspector was once clear within the DPP’s advisory addressed to the Worker Inspector Normal of Police, Zone 2 Command Headquarters, and sighted by way of our correspondent on Saturday.
The advisory, signed by way of the DPP Deputy Director, Sunmonu Tunde, by and for the order Lawyer Normal and Commissioner for Justice, additional mentioned that Dikko, at the side of Omotola Adeboyejo and Wasiu Agbaraojo, could be prosecuted for conspiracy to devote homicide and homicide.
A dead body was once reportedly shot to loss of life within the presence of his spouse, Ejiro Jubril, and teen daughter within the Ibeju-Lekki branch of Lagos Shape on July 15, 2023, over a land dispute.
The widow instructed our correspondent, who visited the crowd in 2023, that she was once assaulted age looking to save her husband from being killed by way of about 50 hoodlums, together with two Cell Law enforcement officials.
“I begged them to spare my husband. They started beating me when I held on to my husband. They said my husband and I were going to die together. I was slapped by different people when I was trying to protect my husband because the beating was too much,” she mentioned.
A dead body’s elder brother, Moshood, additionally mentioned, “They killed my brother right in front of his daughter and his wife. They took the body to Akodo Police Station, where we met with the DPO, IPO, and others.”
In the meantime, the DPP, in its advisory, famous that the scientific reason behind the ’s loss of life certificates and the accounts supplied by way of alternative witnesses supported the reason for loss of life of a dead body which attributed the loss of life of a dead body to sporadic gunshots by way of some of the Cell Policemen procured by way of Omotola Adeboyejo to the scene on July 15, 2023.”
Regardless of more than one witness claims that the 2 Cell Law enforcement officials rented by way of Adeboyejo fired the photographs that killed a dead body, the DPP mentioned that the ballistic file connected Jubril’s loss of life to photographs fired from Usman’s rifle.
The file learn partly, “Info within the reproduction case report expose that one Prominent Fatai Jubril Asalu was once shot at on July 15, 2023, at Museyo crowd, Ajah, and died on account of the gunshot accidents to the top as indicated within the Clinical Explanation for Loss of life Certificates dated August 23, 2023, issued by way of one Dr. O.O. Onayemi, Lagos Shape College Instructing Medical institution, Ikeja.
“As to which of the 2 Cell Policemen fired the photographs that killed a dead body, age conflicting witness accounts point out that each Dikko Usman and Nura Sanni, who have been Cell Policemen on the scene, fired gunshots, on the other hand, the ballistic file with Reference Quantity AR:4100/X/FSL/B.14/2023 dated October 5, 2023, on forensic exam of 1 expended casing (shell), two TO6 diversified riffles with Breach Nos. 07022939 and 07004676 with 3 magazines containing 78 lives of ammunition and extracted bullet fragments, each riffles expose excess of burnt propellant, indicating they have been fired someday and their running mechanisms are entire.
“But Riffle No. 07022939, held by Sanni, displayed a malfunction of the extractor and ejector.”
When requested why the second one Cell Police officer, Inspector Sanni, was once no longer charged in court docket for a similar offence, Ayuba Umma, the spokesperson for Zone 2 Command Headquarters, Onikan, mentioned in an interview with PUNCH Metro on Monday that Sanni have been demoted.
“They weren’t on unlawful accountability. The one unsuitable factor was once the usefulness of firearms. The 2 of them have been on accountability at the week of the incident, however considered one of them was once accused of capturing.
“That is homogeneous to a condition the place two officials are on accountability and one commits an offence. It doesn’t ruthless the alternative officer must be held chargeable for an offence they didn’t devote.
“However, this doesn’t mean he wasn’t punished. He was demoted in rank. It is something we do internally,” Umma mentioned.