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IJAW YOUTHS TO ACTION AS POLICE ALLEGEDLY KILLS 6 IJAWS IN EDO ...URGE IGP, EDO STATE GOVERNMENT TO BRING KILLER POLICE TO JUSTICE.

IJAW YOUTHS TO ACTION AS POLICE ALLEGEDLY KILLS  6 IJAWS IN EDO

...URGE IGP, EDO STATE GOVERNMENT TO BRING KILLER POLICE TO JUSTICE.

Ijaw youths the Niger Delta, under the auspices of the Ijaw  People's Development Initiative, IPDI, vowed to mobilise Egbesu fighters to storm Edo state if the Edo state government, and the Inspector general of police, Mohammed Adamu. to Fitch out Police officers responsible for the killing of 6 Ijaw youths in Edo State.

The president of the Ijaw Peoples development initiative IPDI said that police officers responsible for the extra-judicial killings of 6 Ijaw youths in State CID, Edo state force headquarters should be made to face the law.

The activist stressed, every accused person was presumed innocent pending proven guilty by a competent court and that the police lack power to summarily execute suspects under detention.

Ozobo said the police were used by some gullible Benin people to cowed and intimidate Ijaws in the state and that every acts of intimidation must be resisted by well meaning Ijaw people in the state.

The group reiterated that the suspects were arrested in their homes with no any form of resistance as nothing incriminating was found in them.

He added that there were twin incidents in the state and that the one police alleged to had undergone confrontation with some suspects was different from this very one were 6persons under police detention were shot death by police officers led by Mr Balogun, O/c anti-kidnapping squad, state CID Edo state.

Group urged IGP to exposed the erring police officers for Egbesu firing squad as to helped eradicates police battard image in the country.

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