Why Police must re-open Ige, Olagbaju murder cases --- CSCEOS

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*Late Chief Bola Ige

(Nigeria) Following the recent reported directive of President Muhammadu Buhari and the calls by the well meaning Nigerians that the brutal killing of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, SAN, be revisited, a civil society group, Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State, CSCEOS, has also called for the re-opening of the murder of late Misty Odunayo Olagbaju by the current authority of the police.
The group also disclosed that the opening of the two brutal murders would go in right direction by bringing the uncommon credibility to the force under the present Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris.
The group in a letter by its Chairman, Mr Adeniyi Alimi, made available to newsmen on Thursday in commemoration of 15 years remembrance of late Bola Ige, writing the authority of the force to re-open the brutal murder of Olagbaju alongside of late Chief Ige as being planned.
The Letter reads, “Sir, Odunayo Olagbaju, who was a serving member of the Osun State House of Assembly, was brutally murdered on December 19, 2001 in front of Moore Police Station, Ile-Ife, in which Chief Bola Ige was brutally killed four days later, precisely, December 23, 2001 at his Bodija residence in Ibadan.
“We wish to inform your good office that the two highly unresolved murder cases are seriously affecting the psycho-analysis of the people of Osun State till this present moment and we believe that the two unresolved murder case as affecting our dear state, should be thoroughly re-investigated by bringing it to close once and for all.
“While urging you to exhibit uncommon courage and honesty to ensure in bringing of the perpetrators of the dastard act to justice and this will be the litmus test for the Force in order to retain the confidence of the good people of the country in the Nigeria Police Force as the right to life is universal and guaranteed by the
amended 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
It will be recalled both Ige and Olagbaju were brutally killed as a result of political crisis that engulfed the atmosphere of the State in 2001, when Chief Bisi Akande was battling his erstwhile Deputy, Senator Iyiola Omisore over power supremacy in the State.
In a related development, in July this year, President Muhammad Buhari directed the acting Inspector-General of Police, Idris, to reopen investigation into the unresolved murder of the former minister, Chief Ige.
Similarly, Chief Bola Ige, a national leader of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, was a serving senior minister in the cabinet of Chief Obasanjo’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, controlled Federal Government and Odunayo Olagbaju was a serving state legislator under the same political party, AD, which was generally believed then, was fighting for the downtrodden masses of the state.‎

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