Over two months after the gruesome murder of daughter Afenifere leader, Reuben Fasoranti ,the socio political group has drawn the retention if the public to the shoddy manner in which police command have handles the investigation saying it may go in the way of under unresolved murders in the country.
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In a press statement issued today and signed by Yinka Odumakin,its national publicity secretary, the group express displeasure with the police over its investigation into Funke Olakunrins(Née Fasoranti) death.
In the statement,the group said it is compelled to speak out over what it described as the lackadaisical attitude’ of the police over its investigation of the assassination.
s now over two months that Mrs Olufunke Olakunnrin,the daughter of Afenifere Leader ,Chief Reuben Fasoranti was murdered around Ore in Ondo State and we are compelled to speak out over the lackadaisical attitude of the police into the death.
The statement recalled that, Mr Kehinde Fasoranti,the junior brother of the deceased had stated openly a day after the incident that the police in Ore told him the sister was killed by Fulani herdsmen when he went to collect her body the day she was killed and challenged the police to bring out the statement he wrote at their station .
It expressed its displeasure that up till today, “the police have not contradicted him” .
Odumakin stated that the first sign it got that there was no attempt to launch any serious investigation into the murder was when the car in which she was killed was released to the family from Ore police station the day after the murder without any forensic investigation into the most prized evidence at the scene of the crime .
Said he,”It was when we engaged the police high command that they came to pick the car six days later .The car has now been returned to the family with no report on the examination report ” adding that till date,” there was no attempt to carry out any autopsy on the corpse until we also demanded one from the police before the burial .One was carried out and only that report was given to the family when they went to collect the car.”
The Afenifere spokesman added that behind this, “the police has not made any briefing to the family on their investigations into this dastardly act.”adding that,” there are other bizarre developments that worry us on police investigations into this murder “.
He disclosed further that till date,” the driver of the car in which Mrs Olakunrin was killed has not been asked a question by the police .Furthermore ,a few days after the killing ,a staff of the deceased’ husband ,Bankole Olatunbosun was arrested as he was said to be in touch with Mr Olakunrin’s driver,Femi Ajayi who drove the Sienna bus in the deceased convoy.”
He stated further that,”A week after the killing ,Femi was brought into the family house in Akure by police officers in the anti-kidnap unit .
“The story from the crime scene was that Femi got down from the Sienna bus and followed the gunmen who killed Mrs Olakunrin .He claimed he was kidnapped but there is no evidence of ransom requested from him or his family.He and Bankole Olatunbosun are now free men.Femi even sauntered into the Fasoranti family house three days ago.”
Odumakin stated further that,”all the above put together suggest to us clearly that the police have not done any serious investigations into this murder .And it worries us that we are seeing all the signs of lethargy that usually attend high profile murders with powerful masterminds in our country.”
As a result of the police attitude,the socio -political group, calls on all those who respect human lives in Nigeria and across the world to join it in asking the police and by extension the authorities to ask questions on where the killers were.
