The Lagos State Police Command has refuted claims of alleged torture and killing of Omolola Rotimi Ejioye, by policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti.
Ejioye, aka Eji, died in police custody on May 7, five days after he was allegedly arrested at Ladega area of Ikorodu.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, in a statement issued on Monday, May 10, said late Ejioye was not tortured to death but died at Falomo Police Hospital, Ikoyi, where he was admitted after falling sick.
He said “The Lagos State Police Command has deemed it necessary to refute and clear the air on the alleged torture and killing of one Omolola Rotimi Ejioye, aka Eji, by the operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba on Sunday 9th May 2021, contrary to the news making waves on the social media. The Command wishes to state in clear terms that a case of suspected murder was transferred from the Ikorodu Division of Lagos State to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba-Lagos on 4th May 2021 for discreet investigation. One Rotimi Omolola, the deceased, was equally brought along with the case file and other suspects. On 7th May 2021, at about 4 am, the attention of the officers on duty at the State CID, Panti, was drawn to the strange behaviour of the suspect, Omolola, suggesting an underlining illness and he was quickly rushed to Falomo Police Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos where he gave up the ghost while on admission. The corpse has been deposited at the mortuary for the performance of Autopsy to ascertain the probable cause of death. The Command, therefore, urges the general public to disregard the fake, unfounded and mischievous news which has been in circulation by certain individuals to distort the fact and escalate misinformation on the incident, for reasons best known to them”