Mother Wants Lagos Judicial Panel To Help Retrieve Late Husband’s Corpse From Police.

The Lagos State judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters sitting in Lagos heard a mother of three children, appeal to the panel to order the release of her husband who was alledgedly killed by officers of the Nigeria Police Olosan division, Mushin Lagos on 8th August, 2020.

Led in evidence by her counsel, the petitioner Mrs Femi Abdul-Kareem told the panel that on the 8th of August 2020, the husband Yemi Abdul-Kareem who is a commercial motorcyclist left home to celebrate his birthday with friends and never returned, until the following day when someone called in the morning to inform her that he saw the corpse of her husband lying in a police patrol vehicle belonging to the Olosan police station, Mushin.

She said she was accompanied by family members, a human right organisation and a cable television crew to the station after all efforts to locate his corpse proved abortive as the police at Olosan police station were not forthcoming on the whereabout of her late husband corpse.

During cross examination by the respondent, Mrs Femi Abdul-Kareem said on one of her visit to the Olosan police station, the divisional police officer told her that her husband was killed during an armed robbery attack contrary to eye witness account that her husband was killed by the police.

She said when questioned about the whereabout of the corpse, the police were not forthcoming on where the deceased was.

The mother of three children for the deceased aged 8 years, 4 years and 4 months old, appealed to the panel to order the police to release the corpse and compensate the family for the gruesome killing of it’s breadwinner.

The panel then issued a witness warrant on the DPO Olosan police station and the Commissioner of Police Lagos State at the instance of the respondent, just as it adjourned the matter to September eleventh for further hearing.

The panel also heard two other cases out of the six cases on the causelist and adjourned them to further dates for continuation of hearing.

The panel sitting continues.