The Edo State Judicial Panel of Enquiry for victims of SARS and
related abuses has ordered the arrest of a retired Chief Superintended of
Police (CSP) Carol Afegbai for failing to appear before it to explain her
alleged complicity in the murder of a 500 Level student of University of Benin,Ibrahim Momodu in 2015.
At the resumed sitting of the panel on Tuesday, a member of
the panel, named A. B. Thomas said that Afegbai who was then Divisional Police
Officer of Ogida police station when Momodu was killed has no right not to have
appeared before the panel to explain her roles in the killing if she has
nothing to hide from the public.
Thomas argued that if the court had not tried her then when
the case was first instituted, it was because she was not included in the suit
but added that as it is now; she is a party to the case.
He said: “That we ordered her arrest and that she should be
brought to this court here. If she was not arrested in the high court, if she
was not arrested in the court of Appeal, it is because she was not a party. It
was state versus the man who pulled the trigger, but before us here, she is a
member to the party and if we just go ahead to conclude my Lord, it will seem
she is above the law.
“Therefore, we summon the Commissioner of Police to produce
Mrs. Carol Afegbai before this panel”, he said.
In her ruling, Chairman of the panel, Justice Ada
Ehigiamusoe (rtd) ordered the immediate arrest of Carol Afegbai.
She said: “Earlier, the panel had summoned the respondent to
appear before this panel in today’s proceedings and it is on record that she
has failed to do so.
“It is of the view, therefore, of this panel that the
respondent having failed to appear before the said panel, a warrant of arrest
should be issued against her to appear before the said panel.
“Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that a warrant of arrest
be issued forthwith on the said respondent who is named Carol Afegbai who shall
appear before this panel following the order of this panel on the 9th day of
December 2020”, she said.
The late Ibrahim Momodu was a 500 Level student of Faculty
of Laboratory Science, University of Benin at the time he was killed, close to
his family house at No 1, Igbobaewaye Street, off Siluko road by Textile Mill
junction.
Recall that in October during the #EndSARS protest, an old
video of Nollywood actress, Lilian Afegba’s mum Carol , surfaced online where
she recounted the killing of Ibrahim Momodu, a student, in 2013
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