FLASH: Sales Girl Shot Dead By The Police During Yoruba Nation Rally Buried
Jumoke Oyeleke, the soft drinks and sachet water seller who was shot dead by the police during the Yoruba Nation rally in Ojota, Lagos, has been laid to rest.
She was buried at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos.
GIOTV had reported that Oyeleke’s body was found during the rally held at the Gani Fawehinmi Park on July 3.
This was after security operatives stormed the venue firing teargas canisters and shooting to disperse a crowd of agitators who had gathered to demand the establishment of a Yoruba Nation.
Oyeleke was believed to have been hit by a stray bullet while security operatives shot to disperse the agitators.
However, the Lagos State Government charged a Yoruba Nation protester, Tajudeen Bakare, popularly referred to as Ogboni Chief, for the sachet water seller’s death.
The charge against Bakare was later withdrawn for lack of evidence.
An autopsy conducted on the remains of the 25-year-old had revealed that she died from a missile injury.
The report contradicted the claim by the Lagos State Police Commissioner Hakeem Odumosu that Jumoke was abandoned after she was stabbed.
The autopsy report was signed by one Dr. S.S. Soyomi of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
It attributed her death to “haemopericardium, disruption of the heart and lungs and missile injury to the chest.”
Reacting to the autopsy report, a lawyer with the Femi Falana Chambers, Taiwo Olawale, urged the police to identify the officer that shot the victim.
He also urged the state government to compensate the family.
Olawale said, “The autopsy result implied that she was shot; the third cause of her death was a missile, which means bullet. If you look at the protest that day, nobody shot except the security agencies, so the police should find out whoever shot that lady; whoever did that must face the punishment. The person must be brought out and recommended for prosecution.
“During the autopsy, the bullet was not found in her body and the police had been the one in possession of her corpse since the day of the incident. So, we want them to also produce the bullet so we can ascertain whose bullet it is. They should tell us where the bullet is.
“We also want the government to compensate the family; the deceased was the first child of the family and the breadwinner, and it was the work she was using to feed her mum and three siblings she left behind, so we want the government to compensate the family he added.
