Human rights activist and lawyer , Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, has called on the Assistant Inspector General, AIG , of Police , Zone 5, Benin , Edo State , to order an independent and impartialninquest into an alleged extra -judicial killing of Mr. Ejovi Edaferiemu, a mechanic , by police in Delta State and the disappearance of his corpse.
He also complained about the unlawful arrest and continuous detention of Mr. Abdullahi Shaibu , a commercial tricycle driver , since June 15.
Ikimi said police officers from "B " Division, Warri , on June 15, arrested Edaferiemu and Shaibu for
allegedly abandoning a stolen vehicle near the former ' s workshop in Warri and subjected them to inhuman treatment. He said his clients , Frank Okodu, Yakubu Shaibu and Yunusa Salifu , searched in vain for the suspects at "B " Division, Warri , and various police stations in the oil city and environs until June 25 , when one of them located Shaibu at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID ,
Asaba .
allegedly abandoning a stolen vehicle near the former ' s workshop in Warri and subjected them to inhuman treatment. He said his clients , Frank Okodu, Yakubu Shaibu and Yunusa Salifu , searched in vain for the suspects at "B " Division, Warri , and various police stations in the oil city and environs until June 25 , when one of them located Shaibu at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID ,
Asaba .
He said : "One of our clients was granted access , on June 25 , to see and speak with one of the suspects , who informed our said client that Mr. Ejovi Edaferiemu and himself were arrested at the same time by the men of "B " Division, Warri ,
"Shaibu revealed that that Edaferiemu was tortured to death in his presence on June 18, by
men of the State Criminal InvestigationNDepartment, SCID , Asaba , after both of them were transferred to Asaba .
"Shaibu revealed that that Edaferiemu was tortured to death in his presence on June 18, by
men of the State Criminal InvestigationNDepartment, SCID , Asaba , after both of them were transferred to Asaba .
"It is our brief that the surviving suspect furtherninformed our client that it was just by God's grace he survived the various prolonged tortures, both at "B" Division, Warri , and at SCID , Asaba .
"He said it was after the death of Edaferiemu that he was rushed to the hospital for treatment by the said policemen at Asaba , after he
collapsed from the tortures meted out on him. "
collapsed from the tortures meted out on him. "
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