JUSTICE: Mother of killed student seeks help from IGP

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The family of Mr. and  Mrs. Joseph Fasere, a native of Ilupeju Ekiti, in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State, have called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar to investigate the alleged extra-judicial killing of their son, Seyi Fasere by the police, last week.

Seyi, before he met his untimely death, was a 400-level student of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), but the police shot him dead after an armed robbery operation at a new generation bank in Oye Ekiti

while on his way to school from Ilupeju  Ekiti to Ado-Ekiti,  the state Capital.

But, the Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Ekiti State Command, Mr.  Victor Obayemi denied that the police killed the young boy, saying the young man may had died during exchange of gun fire by his men and the armed robbers.

The mother of the boy, Mrs. Fasere alleged that Seyi was killed by the police just to score a cheap point that they were performing their constitutional functions effectively after the robbers had escaped from the scene.

Addressing newsmen in Ado Ekiti yesterday, Mrs. Fasere, 60 and the husband, 65, Mr. Joseph Fasere, explained that Seyi, a Business Administration student of the state university, was travelling  in a commercial vehicle with some people, when they ran into a gang of armed robbers at the neighbouring  Oye  Ekiti town .

Narrating further, she said that a police officer known as ‘Akobi-Esu’, who is serving  at the Ilupeju Police Station, identified himself that he was the one that killed Seyi, having been apprehended as a member of the robbery gang that robbed the bank on that day.

According to her, her late son was not only caught, he was tortured, beaten and had his hands tied to the back by the police before been killed and a sum of  N100,000 that was given to him as school fees and two  mobile phones were stolen from him by the police.

In his reaction, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ekiti State Police Command, Mr. Victor Babayemi said, “One of the robbers who was shot and arrested said he could not identify Seyi because he was not among the team that attacked the station.