The coroner’s inquest into the death of Ademola Aderinto, killed
during January anti-fuel subsidy removal protests in Lagos, continued on
Wednesday, with a police officer testifying that he received a distress
call about hoodlums terrorising residents.
Steven Onwe, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), who was
attached to the Radio Control Room of the State Police Command, said the
anonymous caller did not say that the group were protesters.
“I received an anonymous call that hoodlums had taken over at Yaya Abatan (area),” he said.
On January 9, 2012, while street protests against the removal of fuel
subsidy were ongoing across the state, Segun Fabunmi, a Chief
Superintendent of Police, allegedly shot and killed the deceased, at
Yaya Abatan area in Ogba.
Fabunmi was, at the time, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Penn Cinema Police Station.
In his deposition, Onwe stated that “the voice call repeatedly call
(sic) the police hotline that the situation was getting out of hand.”
“That I also directed the DPO Penn Cinema about the distress call
receive (sic) by anonymous voice. That how the DPO carried out this
operation is not known to me, as my job does not include operation.”
However, Onwe said there was no recording of the voice conversation
with the anonymous caller, when asked by C.R. Chiwenze of the Access to
Justice, a Lagos-based human rights organisation, acting as a party
interested.
“No, I don’t have recording of the phone call received,” he said.
Onwe also said that there was no recording of the message passed across to the police officers.
Previously,
the Investigating Police Officer, Olumide Alagbe, while giving evidence
at the hearing police, insisted that Fabunmi had accidentally killed
the deceased when his team was attacked by hoodlums.
The coroner, Tajudeen Elias, adjourned the case to July 25, 2012, for further hearing.
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