The National Association of Nigerian Students has given the
police authorities a 72-hour ultimatum to produce the policeman that killed
Seyi Fasere, a 400 level student of Business Administration and Management
Department of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti at Oye Divisional Police
Station after a robbery incident.
NANS demanded this in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday at a press
conference addressed by the Joint Campus Committee over the killing of Fasere.
The chairman of NANS, Ekiti chapter, Damilare Bewaji, who
read a petition written to President Goodluck Jonathan, and copied the National
Security Adviser and the Inspector General of Police, described it as
“senseless and provocative.”
The student said if the Commissioner of Police in the state,
Mr. Sotonye Wakama, failed to produce the killer cop, identified as Akobi Esu
(Devil’s first child), dismiss and
prosecute him for murder, he should be ready for a war with the students in the state.
The petition read in part, “We demand that the Commissioner
of Police in Ekiti State should within 72 hours produce the trigger happy and
uncivilized police officer that opened fire on Seyi Fasere, dismiss him and
pave the way for his prosecution.
“We demand that the National Headquarters of Nigeria Police
Force should immediately set up a panel to investigate the remote and immediate
cause of the death of Seyi Fasere.
“We wish to state in clear terms that if the commissioner
fails to produce the errant police officer, we shall stage a mass action and
mobilised all students across the campuses to occupy the police headquarters
until our demands are met.”
The Chairman, Transition Committee, Students’ Union of Ekiti
State University, Ado Ekiti, Adeoye Aribasoye, also recommended psychiatric
test for all policemen and women in the country.
Aribasoye alleged that the summary execution of Fasere made
the psychiatric test for the nation’s policemen very imperative.
According to him, no sane person will pull a trigger to
terminate the life of a person who has not been convicted by any court of law.
Aribasoye said, “Psychiatric test should be conducted on the
men and women of the police force and even on those seeking to be recruited
into the force so that arms will not be given to those who are not fit to carry
them.”
The NANS chairman said it was unbelievable that a trained
policeman could summarily execute a student who was running away from the
shooting between the police and a gang of robbers.
The parents of the deceased had said that Fasere, with other
passengers and the driver of a commercial bus, ran out of the vehicle and hid
in the bush in order not to be cut down by flying bullets during a shoot out
between the police and a gang of armed robbers.
They said Fasere was found by policemen where he was hiding
and killed a day later after he had been tortured at the police station.
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