Fuel Subsidy Killing: Lawmaker Mourns Slain Ademola

Following the removal of the subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government which led to the nationwide protests and the shooting of Abiodun Ademola and four others at Yaya Abatan, Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, by the Divisional Police Officer of Pen Cinema, Segun Fabunmi, the lawmaker representing Ifako-Ijaiye Federal Constituency, Lagos State, Otunba Abayomi Ogunnusi and Chairman of Ojokoro Local Council Development Area, Chief Benjamin Olabinjo have paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Ademola.

Ogunnusi said: “It is a crime against humanity for peaceful protesters to be executed extra-judicially, and the perpetrator must face the full weight of the law as a deterrent to others”.

Kunle Fadipe, former Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission, a legal practitioner in the community said that they heard rumours that the family members are being harassed by policemen in the order not to give evidence in the ongoing investigation into the murder.

The lawmaker, on behalf of his family and as well as the people of Ifako Ijaiye Federal Constituency, Lagos State donated N500,000 to the family.

Chairman of Ojokoro Local Council Development, LCDA, Ikeja, Lagos, Chief Benjamin Olabinjo, having donated N200,000 to the family also described the killing as a breach of the right of Nigerians to life, adding that the policeman responsible should be prosecuted.

—Ekene Obidike