Ekiti student killing: NANS gives police commissioner 72-hour ultimatum to produce “killer cop” (PICTURED)

by Rachel Ogbu

Seyi-Fasere (Photo: Punch)
Seyi-Fasere (Photo: Punch)

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has demanded the Commissioner of Police in the state, Sotonye Wakama, to produce the ‘killer cop’ that allegedly killed Seyi Fasere, a 400 level Ekiti State University student at Oye Divisional Police Station after a robbery incident.

The group gave the police authorities a 72-hour ultimatum on Tuesday during a press conference addressed by the Joint Campus Committee saying they should prepare for war if they failed to persecute the policeman.

The chairman of NANS, Ekiti chapter, Damilare Bewaji, read out the petition written to President Goodluck Jonathan, with copies to the National Security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police, described the murder of the Business Administration student as “senseless and provocative.”

Excerpts of the petition read:

“We demand that the Commissioner of Police in Ekiti State should within 72 hours produce the trigger happy and uncivilized police officer that opened fire on Seyi Fasere, dismiss him and pave the way for his prosecution.

“We demand that the National Headquarters of Nigeria Police Force should immediately set up a panel to investigate the remote and immediate cause of the death of Seyi Fasere.

“We wish to state in clear terms that if the commissioner fails to produce the errant police officer, we shall stage a mass action and mobilised all students across the campuses to occupy the police headquarters until our demands are met.”

The Punch reports:

The Chairman, Transition Committee, Students’ Union of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Adeoye Aribasoye, also recommended psychiatric test for all policemen and women in the country.

Aribasoye alleged that the summary execution of Fasere made the psychiatric test for the nation’s policemen very imperative.

According to him, no sane person will pull a trigger to terminate the life of a person who has not been convicted by any court of law.

Aribasoye said, “Psychiatric test should be conducted on the men and women of the police force and even on those seeking to be recruited into the force so that arms will not be given to those who are not fit to carry them.”

The NANS chairman said it was unbelievable that a trained policeman could summarily execute a student who was running away from the shooting between the police and a gang of robbers.

The parents of the deceased had told PUNCH Metro that Fasere, with other passengers and the driver of a commercial bus, ran out of the vehicle and hid in the bush in order not to be cut down by flying bullets during a shoot out between the police and a gang of armed robbers.

They said Fasere was found by policemen where he was hiding and killed a day later after he had been tortured at the police station.

 

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  2. Oh! That is unfortumate if investigatn reveals his innocent.But u see,dat is calld OPERATIONAL ERROR and not BLUNDER

  3. 9ija police na wa o,u ar treating us like rat dat can be killed @ any tim,robbers dey no fit arest but perfect in killi

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