IGP: Probe Muri’s extra-judicial killing
This is a clarion call on the Inspector General of Police to reopen cases of extra-judicial killings and ensure that justice is served adequately. On ýSunday, 29 September, 2013, One Moses Murtala Aminu was allegedly killed in the hands of Corporal Alex Okpe, a police officer attached to the Kakuri division of Kaduna State. Aminu […]
This is a clarion call on the Inspector General of Police to reopen cases of extra-judicial killings and ensure that justice is served adequately. On ýSunday, 29 September, 2013, One Moses Murtala Aminu was allegedly killed in the hands of Corporal Alex Okpe, a police officer attached to the Kakuri division of Kaduna State. Aminu had interfered in a quarrel involving Corporal Okpe who responded in the typical and notorious nature of the men in black uniform, he brought out his gun and fired a shot pointedly at Muri on the chest. He fired another shot into the sky, and escaped from the scene; leaving Muri to writhe in pain and bleed to death.
The blood of Moses Murtala Aminu cries for justice. There ýis no better way to serve this justice and to placate him, than to bring his killer to account for sending him to the great beyond and the young age of 30, according to prescribed law of the land. We demand that Corporal Alex Okpe be prosecuted and the full weight of the law be imposed. The blood of Muri will continue to cry until this is done, and anybody who is in a position to do this but refuses to do so, will have Muri’s blood on his hands.
It is worrying to note that from that unfortunate day to date, countless number of people have fallen to bullets from the guns of trigger happy police officers.
Despite the increasing number of extra-judicial killings by the police, no police officer has been successfully prosecuted and sentenced adequately for wrongfully taking human life. Are we surprised that this has not happened? No. The police is expected to prosecute such cases; will they be diligent and see their colleagues go to jail?
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