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Extra-judicial
killing of Delta governorship aspirant: Keyamo petitions
IG
Newsdiaryonline Mon Nov
28,2011
Keyamo
Barrister Festus Keyamo has written a petition to the
Inspector General of Police urging him to use his
"good offices to unravel and bring to book the officers and men
of the Nigeria Police Force involved in this illegal killing of
Chief Ogbe Onokpite who, like any other citizen of Nigeria is
presumed innocent until proved guilty."
"The
Onokpite family is prepared and are urgently requesting for a
Coroners’ Inquest to be made in order to obtain the autopsy
report and a full Criminal Investigation Report of the murder of
an innocent citizen. The lifeless body of Ogbe Onokpite has been
dumped at the morgue in the Central Hospital Warri, Delta State, he said.
Explaining what he believes happened
Keyamo said
"It is our brief that
Chief Ogbe Onokpite (born 38 years ago)
WHO WAS A
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE OF THE CITIZENS POPULAR PARTY IN APRIL
26TH GENERAL ELECTIONS HELD IN DELTA STATE
was lodging at a hotel called Beeland Hotel situated at
Orhuwhorun in Udu Local Government Area, Delta State when men of
the Nigeria Police attached to the Police Area Command, Warri
(in the company of other plain cloth unidentified persons)
stormed the hotel to arrest Chief Ogbe Onokpite.
"On
arrival at the said Hotel, the police ordered the receptionist
on duty at the hotel to show them the room where Chief Ogbe
Onokpite was lodging. Out of extreme fear, the receptionist
obeyed and took the policemen to Ogbe’s room and he was
immediately arrested and brought out (to the open still within
the hotel premises) and shot in the leg.
"Chief
Ogbe was then carried out of the Hotel premises (still alive) in
a vehicle bearing the inscription of the Nigeria Police, Area
Command Warri to the Police Station at Warri where he was again
shot in other more delicate parts of his body and left thereat
to bleed to death.
"The
attached photographs speak volume as to the barbaric and dastard
murder without trial of Chief Ogbe Onokpite in the hands of men
of the Nigeria Police under the watchful eyes of the Area
Commander in Charge of the Policemen serving the Delta Central
District of Delta State
Picture of the victim
Read Keyomo's petition below:
Monday, November 28, 2011.
The Inspector-General of
Police,
Force
Headquarters,
Louis
Edet House,
Abuja.
Dear Sir,
IN THE MATTER OF THE
EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING OF CHIEF OGBE ONOKPITE (WHO WAS A
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE OF THE CITIZENS POPULAR PARTY IN APRIL
26TH GENERAL ELECTIONS HELD IN
DELTA
STATE)
We act
on behalf of the members of the
ONOKPITE and IGHOMRORE
families of Okpe and Uvwie Local Governments in Delta State
respectively represented by Chief V. E. Onokpite who is the
elder brother to Chief Ogbe Onokpite.
It is
our brief that Chief Ogbe Onokpite (born 38 years ago)
WHO WAS A
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE OF THE CITIZENS POPULAR PARTY IN APRIL
26TH GENERAL ELECTIONS HELD IN DELTA STATE
was lodging at a hotel called Beeland Hotel situated at
Orhuwhorun in Udu Local Government Area, Delta State when men of
the Nigeria Police attached to the Police Area Command, Warri
(in the company of other plain cloth unidentified persons)
stormed the hotel to arrest Chief Ogbe Onokpite.
On
arrival at the said Hotel, the police ordered the receptionist
on duty at the hotel to show them the room where Chief Ogbe
Onokpite was lodging. Out of extreme fear, the receptionist
obeyed and took the policemen to Ogbe’s room and he was
immediately arrested and brought out (to the open still within
the hotel premises) and shot in the leg.
Chief
Ogbe was then carried out of the Hotel premises (still alive) in
a vehicle bearing the inscription of the Nigeria Police, Area
Command Warri to the Police Station at Warri where he was again
shot in other more delicate parts of his body and left thereat
to bleed to death.
The
attached photographs speak volume as to the barbaric and dastard
murder without trial of Chief Ogbe Onokpite in the hands of men
of the Nigeria Police under the watchful eyes of the Area
Commander in Charge of the Policemen serving the Delta Central
District of Delta State.
Need we
say that Chief Ogbe Onokpite has a right to life guaranteed by
the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and
nothing in this Constitution justifies extra-judicial killing of
any person no matter the offence he may have committed.
It is
in the light of the foregoing, we are calling on you to employ
your good offices to unravel and bring to book the officers and
men of the Nigeria Police Force involved in this illegal killing
of Chief Ogbe Onokpite who, like any other citizen of Nigeria is
presumed innocent until proved guilty.
The
Onokpite family is prepared and are urgently requesting for a
Coroners’ Inquest to be made in order to obtain the autopsy
report and a full Criminal Investigation Report of the murder of
an innocent citizen. The lifeless body of Ogbe Onokpite has been
dumped at the morgue in the Central Hospital Warri, Delta State.
We look
forward to an expeditious treatment of this petition in the
interest of justice and for the benefit of the bereaved family
members.
Yours
sincerely,
FESTUS KEYAMO, ESQ.
HEAD OF CHAMBERS
CC:
1.
Dr. Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan (GCFR)
President and
Commander-In-Chief,
Armed Forces
of the
Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
Aso Villa, Abuja.
2.
The Chairman,
National Human
Rights Commission,
Abuja.
3.
Chairman,
Committee on
Public Petitions
(SENATE),
National
Assembly, Abuja.
4.
Chairman,
Committee on
Public Petitions
(House of
Representatives),
National
Assembly, Abuja.
Th
This is the document referred to in the Witness
Statement on Oath of Clifford O. Kokogho as
“Exhibit
COK.2”
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