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Group demands urgent police investigation into Sheriff Salami’s death

Centre for Human and Socio-economic Rights (CHSR) in collaboration with other with other Civil Society Organizations have petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command requesting for a thorough investigation into circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder of Mr. Sheriff Ishola Salami at MOBA town adjacent AJIRAN on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

 

In a petition signed by Comrade Alex Omotehinse, President CHSR on behalf of Civil Society Stakeholders, the group also call on Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of Lagos State, and the National Human Rights Commission demanding for urgent action leading to thorough investigation into the questionable circumstances surrounding the  death of the deceased without further delay.

 

According to the statement issued on Thursday, December 7, 2023 at a mini procession on the “State of Insecurity and Unresolved Murders in Lagos State”, Omotehinse revealed that; “The Group decided to embark on advocacy and submission of petitions to draw the attention to the failure of the police in Ogombo, Eti-Osa, Lekk and Area ‘J’ Police Command  of Lagos State to investigate the gruesome murder of Mr. Sheriff Ishola Salami at MOBA town adjacent AJIRAN on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

“The deceased was a leader of the youth in Ojomu Community in Ajiran Land. Following the ugly incident, we have had made representations to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zonal Command Headquarters, Zone II, Onikan, Lagos via a petition to draw the attention to the indifference of the police and apparent lack of commitment to investigate the incident which was duly reported at Ogombo Police Station.

CHSR and other Civil Society Stakeholders during a press briefing in Lagos

 

“We are by this advocacy joined by Mrs. Mariam Ishola Salami, the widow of the deceased submitting separate petitions to the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) through the Lagos Office of the agency.

 

“As civil society groups, we are deeply touched by the pain of the immediate family of the deceased. The police authority in Lekki axis of Lagos State appears uninterested in investigating the murder which was perpetrated in broad day light. The immediate family members of the deceased are worried and frustrated by the delay that is increasingly assuming a deliberate ploy to shield the perpetrators of the heinous crime from justice.

“The deceased who is the breadwinner of the family left behind his critically ill aged mother (who unfortunately died in her inconsolable state in the last week of October, 2023), his wife Mrs. Mariam Ishola Salami and three young daughters, Sinata (5years), Ayisha (4 years), and Arafat (2 years).

“We are now convinced that 8 months after the cold-blooded murder of Mr. Sheriff Ishola Salami, the police authority in Lagos State has failed in its statutory duty of investigation in spite of the fact that the incident was duly reported at the Ogombo Police Station, Lekki. It is indeed sad that the family members of the deceased have, in the last 8 months, been left to mourn their beloved son, husband and father without any glimmer of hope of getting justice” the statement concluded.

 

Centre for Human and Socio-economic Rights (CHSR) is a public good oriented non-governmental organization (NGO) registered as a corporate body to defend, sustain and promote the fundamental human and socio-economic rights of citizens and residents in any part of Nigeria as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

By Ajibola Adedoye

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