A coalition of Civil Society
Organisations (CSOs) has asked the Nigeria police force to produce Michael
Adikwu, one of the arrested suspects in the Offa robbery incident.
Adikwu, who reportedly led the
gang in the incident which occurred on April 5, 2018, is said to be missing.
Thirty-three people, including
pregnant women and 12 police officers, were killed in the attack.
Recall that we had reported that
the fate of Adikwu — who confessed to have killed several policemen as a
revenge for his “unfair” dismissal from the force — has become a subject of
speculation.
At some point, he was not paraded
alongside the other arrested suspects, and his name was also removed from the
list of suspects in a statement from the police.
Rumours have it that he was shot
dead while in custody in order to coerce confessions from other suspects.
In a petition on Monday, the CSOs
asked the police to immediately produce Adikwu, or be “dragged” to the
International Criminal Court.
“If he (Adikwu) has been killed,
the police should come clean and name his executors, this is in keeping with
the Freedom of Information Act (FOI),” the petition signed by Collins Abu on
behalf of the coalition read.
“We demand an immediate
investigation into the disappearance of this suspect, and we ask respected
international human rights organisations to call on the Nigerian government and
the police to produce him.”
The CSOs also demanded an
independent probe of the Offa robbery “because the police appear compromised”.
“Failure to produce him, we will
petition the International Criminal Court and also petition all embassies with
evidence so as to revoke visas of the IGP and other human rights violators,”
they said.
Jimoh Moshood, police spokesman,
had denied that the suspect was killed in custody.
“Who killed him?” he had asked in
response to inquiries by newsmen, adding: “We will parade him soon, once they
recover all the weapons.”
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