The Nation’s correspondent in Osun State who was shot by overzealous police officers last week, Toba Adedeji has described the statement made by Osun commissioner of police, Olawale Olokode that he fell while running as a lie.
Olokode during a live programme on a radio station in Osogbo on Wednesday said it wasn’t bullet that hit Adedeji, that it was just a mere metal scratch.
Adedeji while addressing a press statement said the police boss lied to the public.
“This reaction becomes imperative following the non admittance of the police over the unfortunate incident and claims of the Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode during a radio programme in Osogbo on Wednesday that it was not a bullet but a mere metal scratch.
“I want to state it emphatically here that CP Olokode lied.
He said when he (Olokode) came to pay him a visit at home that he told him that he was not shot, this lie and “it is so unfortunate coming from a senior police officer because we never had such discussion but I told him that I was shot at the scene by policemen led by DPO Oyegade of Dugbe police station.
“In fact, he was trying to change the narrative as he told me that the police and hoodlums had shoot out at the scene but I refuted the claim saying there was no confrontation with the protesters that warranted shooting that day. He could not talk till he leave my house that day.
‘The outburst of lies by the Osun State police further entrench that police should not be trusted for any reasons again because the people of the state are not safe again.
“I want to state it clearly that, While I was been treated at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, the CP called some of my colleagues on phone at the hospital and started appealing that we should kill the story saying he was wrongly briefed over the matter.
“When he was summoned to Abuja headquarters of police, he visited the NUJ national chairman that he should direct his member to stop reports on the matter.
“As far as my treatment is concerned at UNIOSUNTH, I never told them at the hospital that it was not gunshot.
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Adedeji therefore demands that the police leadership must provide those officers who shot him on that day as he identified the Divisional Police Officer of Dugbe, Oyegade as the leader of the squad.
“The Commissioner of Police should tender a public apology for lying that I told him that I was not shot but sustained mere injury. He must retract the statement which are all lies against my personality.
“The Police in Osun has lost its leadership and IGP must look for a way to address this before another wind of #EndSARS take over the state.
“The strange faces that has been trailing me to hospital since the issue happened must also be checked by Directorate of State Services and other security agencies.
“There should be independent investigation into the alleged medical report which the CP claimed was obtained from UNIOSUNTH with a view to finding out the author of the said report.”
