Kunle ADELABU
Lagos Police Command on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, released the three boys arrested on Monday following the mayhem that greeted the death of 17 year old Adijat Sikiru who was killed by a stray bullet shot by Police Raiders at Adamo in Ikorodu on March 18,2019.
They were released this evening from Panti police station where they were transferred to earlier today from Imota police station.
The boys were allegedly arrested by the police officers at the Imota police station where they had assisted Adijat’s mother to convey her corpse to demand justice.
The bereaved mother, Mrs Janeth Anifowoshe, had on Wednesday informed our reporter at her house located at 11, Akaun Street, Adamo, Ikorodu, that Hammed Yekinni, Alliu Animashaun and Daniel Ini helped her in carrying the remains of her daughter to the Imota police station to demand justice.
Our sources within the police informed THE IMPACT that the boys were arrested after residents of Adamo mobilized themselves and stormed the police station to protest the killing of Adijat and the subsequent attack on the community by police officers.
We gathered that while the police attack on the community was going on, the three boys were with the bereaved mother and Adijat’s corpse at the police station.
Our source also disclosed that a police inspector was attacked and severely injured by the mob on his way to Imota.
Meanwhile, when Hon Sanai Agunbiade, Majority Leader of Lagos State House of Assembly and Ikorodu Constituency I representative paid a condolence visit to the family of the slain girl, her mother, Mrs Anifowoshe, and other residents of Akaun community appealed to the government and general public to help in prevailing on the police to release the detained boys and the remains of Adijat for proper burial.
Hon Agunbiade, in an interview with reporters at the house of the bereaved family, assured them of his intervention in that regard and also promised them justice.
We also gathered that the corpse of late Adijat was deposited at the Ikorodu General Hospital and that the police would conduct a post-mortem examination to ascertain the cause of her death.
