Lawmaker petitions House of Reps over killing of youth corps member by police

A subordinate of the House of Representatives, Ayodeji Alao-Akala, has presented a petition earlier the House connected the alleged sidesplitting of Damilola Iyanda, a serving Corps member, by the constabulary during the caller convocation ceremonial of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State.

Mr Alao-Akala presented the petition connected Tuesday during plenary session.

Mr Iyanda was reportedly changeable connected 23 April allegedly by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Oyo State Police Command.

The lawmaker, portion laying the petition, explained that helium was presenting it connected behalf of Israel Iyanda, a member to the deceased.

Mr Alao-Akala, who represents Ogbomoso North/South/Oriire Federal Constituency of Oyo State, said the deceased was not a cultist arsenic alleged by the constabulary but lone attended the convocation ceremonial of his brother.

In the petition, Mr Iyanda narrated the events that led to the decease of the corps member.

“After the convocation ceremonial astatine noon, we went to a lounge called Reeplay. We were wrong the lounge erstwhile we heard radical warring outside. While this was ongoing, trigger-happy policemen of the Nigeria Police Force started shooting sporadically into the air, In an effort to debar being shot, we tried to unreserved to the car, but unfortunately, my member got deed by a stray slug successful his caput and helium instantly died,” helium said.

“I was besides deed by a stray slug connected my near arm, which I americium presently astatine the infirmary for,” helium added.

The petition was referred to the House Committee connected Public Petition by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen for probe and further legislative action.

The House Committee connected Public Petition is simply a quasi-judicial assemblage that investigates cases of quality rights abuse.

Many cases of extra-judicial killings

Nigerian information agencies are notorious for carrying retired extra-judicial killings crossed the country.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), successful 2021, released a study detailing however information operatives had killed implicit 13,000 radical extra-judicially successful the state from 2011 to 2021, a play of 10 years.

The 2020 EndSARS protests was sparked by cases of brutality by the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The SWAT was established successful 2020 arsenic a replacement for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

However, brutality by information agencies persists crossed the country.