Murdered guard: Rights groups want monarch’s nephew arrested

Human rights groups have called on the police to fish out the nephew of a monarch in Lagos, Enibalomo, who led a gang that murdered a security guard, Odion Aimeyekagbon.Aimeyekagbon was attached to the Bello Folawiyo Government Reserve Area in the Ketu-Ikosi area of the state before his death.PUNCH Metro had reported on Friday, October 3 that the deceased and his colleague, Zaka Ajeh, had told the kingpin, said to be returning from a hotel in the estate, to tender a gate pass before he could be granted exit.



Angered by the request of the security officials, Enibalomo reportedly ordered some hoodlums loyal to him to unleash terror on the unarmed guards.

Aimeyekagbon died in a pool of blood as the assailants, who are still at large, stabbed him and smashed his head against an iron pillar while Ajeh sustained some injuries.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the coordinator Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, Mr. Okechukwu Nwaguma, said Enibalomo had abused his status in the community.

Nwaguma enjoined the police in Lagos to hasten the arrest of the culprits and arraign them before a law court.

He said, “This is a clear case of premeditated murder by someone possessed of an exaggerated sense of his own importance. He thinks, therefore, that he is too big to subject himself to rules, in this case, a standing rule to strengthen security in the neighbourhood.

“The Lagos State Police Command must, as a matter of duty and urgency, arrest the culprit, charge him to court and ensure that the law takes its full course so that the man is made to bear the full legal consequences of his deluded and irrational action and create deterrence to others like him.”

In her reaction, the President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, said the police must ensure that the deceased and his family get justice.

She added that an attempt to sweep the matter under the carpet would breed more of the crime in the state and Nigeria at large.

“First and foremost, we strongly condemn this unspeakable, terrible and inhuman act. Enibalomo did not conduct himself properly. It is not only intolerable but also despicable to take life just like that; it is brutish. The police ought to have arrested him and his cohorts and take them to court to serve as deterrent to others.

“We want the assailants to be prosecuted according to the law of land. Odion died as a defenceless Nigerian. We must all make sure that Aimeyekagbon gets justice even in his death,” she said.