The journalist,Toba Adedeji who was shot by men of the Osun State Police Command recently has accused the state Commissioner of Police,CP Olawale Olokode of fabricating lies.
Adedeji asked the Commissioner of Police to tender a public apology for lying against him that he ‘Adedeji’ to him ‘CP’ that I was not shot but sustained mere injury.
It was gathered that CP Olokode on Wednesday while featuring on Fresh FM, Osogbo Point Blank program debunked reports that his men shot Adedeji and one other last week Monday.
Adedeji who is working with The Nation Newspaper was hit by a bullet allegedly shot by policeman at the Olaiya bridge in Osogbo while covering protest.
Olokode claimed that medical report which he received from LAUTECH hospital, Osogbo stated that Adedeji did not sustain a gunshot rather was wounded by a sharp object.
Reacting to this development, Adedeji in a statement made available to Blaze Newz said narrative of the Osun police commissioner is false.
Adedeji’s statement titled “Police should never be trusted again” reads in part “This reaction becomes imperative following the non admittance of the police over the unfortunate incident and claims of the Commisioner of Police, Olawale Olokode during a radio programme in Osogbo on Wednesday that it was not a bullet but a mere metal scratch.
“I want to state it emphatically here that CP Olokode lied.
“He said when he came to pay me visit at home that I told him that I was not shot, this lie and it is so unfortunate, coming from a senior police officer because we never had such discussion but I told him that I was shot at the scene by policemen led by DPO Oyegade of Dugbe police station.
“In fact, he was trying to change the narrative as he told me that the police and hoodlums had shoot out at the scene but I refuted the claim saying there was no confrontation with the protesters that warranted shooting that day. He could not talk till he leave my house that day.
“The outburst of lies by the Osun State police further entrench that police should not be trusted for any reasons again because the people of the state are not safe again.
“Residents of Osun fear policemen more than they fear armed robbers.
“I want to state it clearly that, While I was been treated at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo the CP called some of my colleagues on phone at the hospital and started appealing that we should kill the story saying he was wrongly briefed over the matter.
“When he was summoned to Abuja headquarters of police, he visited the NUJ national chairman that he should direct his member to stop reports on the matter.
“As far as my treatment is concerned at UNIOSUNTH, I never told them at the hospital that it was not gunshot.
“If gunshots were not fired on that day, why will I be running from from the scene.
My demands
1. The police leadership must provide those officers who shot me that day as I identified the Divisional Police Officer of Dugbe, Oyegade as the leader of the squad.
2. The Commissioner of Police should tender a public apology for lying that I told him that I was not shot but sustained mere injury. He must retract the statement which are all lies against my personality.
3. The Police in Osun has lost its leadership and IGP must look for a way to address this before another wind of #EndSARS take over the state.
4. The strange faces that has been trailing me to hospital since the issue happened must also be checked by Directorate of State Services and other security agencies.
5. There should be independent investigation into the alleged medical report which the CP claimed was obtained from UNIOSUNTH with a view to finding out the author of the said report.
6 The consultant in charge of Accident and emergency unit of the Hospital, Dr Ogungbemi and the Doctor that treated me, apart from the questions asked me also interviewed my colleagues, who were eye witnesses to ascertain my story over the incident.
“It is important we unravel the mystery behind the said medical report because the integrity of the hospital is at stake.
“If an incident that happened less than a kilometer from UNIOSUNTH and some hospital personnel also confirmed to us that they heard gunshots and the purported report Olokode is parading indicated that I fell and injured myself, then the members of the public may become suspicious of goings on in the hospital.”
