Nigeria: Extra-Judicial Killing in Edo?

22 December 2013

Edo State Police Command and the family of one Samuel Imaikop have been engaged in war of words after the family claimed that Imaikop, who was among the five suspected armed robbers killed by the police, penultimate Sunday, at Benin Bypass, was a farmer. The family, led by Pastor Ime Imaikop Browson, protested in Benin-City on Monday, calling on the police to release the corpse of their brother whom they insisted took some farmers to his farm at Ute when he was shot dead.

But Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Adebanjo, debunked their claim, saying the statement of the family was an attempt to ridicule the Command and distort facts. He insisted that the police had not committed any form of extra judicial killing.

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