Oyerinde: Oshiomole threatens to publish police report as IG denies complicity

Inspector General of police, Muhammed Abubakar

The last is yet to be heard on the killing of the private secretary of Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole as the saga is beginning to take a new dimension following Oshiomhole’s threat to publish police report should the IG continue to deny the allegation levelled against the DIG, Force CID.

The Governor’s private Secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde, who was actively involved in Labour struggle in his lifetime, was shot dead at his residence on the 4th of May, 2012 in Benin City by suspected assassins.

Sources say the former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to publish the report submitted to him by the police, to back up his statement that the police knows so much about the murder of Oyerinde.

However, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has described the Governor’s accusation as “unfounded”, adding that police authority will “respond to the claim appropriately”.

He said this on Friday in Abuja at a meeting with senior officers to discuss the new Code of Conduct for the Nigeria Police.

The Edo State Governor had at a launch of the police code of conduct held in Abuja, called for the dismissal of the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of criminal investigation department for his alleged role in the death of his aide.

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