Family Of Slain Kogi PDP Chieftain,Police Trade Words On Killing

The Kogi State Police Command and the family of the slain PDP chieftain, Prince Aliu Raphael Olorunpomi, have disagreed over the assassination of the party chief.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Kogi State command, Mr. Ile Simon, had averred that the late Olorunpomi was kidnapped for allegedly defiling the Oro Festival in Kabba and murdered because he recognized one of his abductors.
But the son of the murdered Police chief, Segun Olorunpomi, in a sharp reaction yesterday described the Police statement as a "hasty lie."
Segun, who was a victim of the attack on his father's Happy Hour Parks & Garden in Kabba, Kogi State, where the late Olorunpomi was abducted and later assassinated, said; "the entire incident had nothing to do with the Oro Festival .
"We are leaving all the leads open to the Police in order for them to get to the roots of this dastardly murder. But we take exception to any hasty and un-investigated conclusions that will further inflict pains on the family.
"It is shocking that the Police, rather than conducting investigations, have resorted to naked lies, fabrications and diversionary tactics by accusing a man who was gruesomely murdered of defiling the Oro festival. This is a callous spit on my father's grave.
"My father did not defile any festival in Kabba or anywhere else. Is the Police also saying that the robbery that took place in another part of the town before my father was abducted on the same day a defilement of the Oro festival?," he asked.
He urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mr. MD Abubakar, to order an investigation into the abduction and assassination of his late father whom he described as "our breadwinner."