Police Constable, Alonge Abdul, who allegedly killed a pregnant woman, Mrs Segi Olajiga, in Akure, Ondo State has been remanded in prison custody for murder by a Chief Magistrate court in Ondo State.
This came yesterday as the Association of Women Lawyers, petitioned the Ondo State Police Command, saying the dismissal of the killer cop will be grossly inadequate, calling for his prosecution, as they pleaded with the police authorities not to sweep the case under the carpet.
Abdul was arraigned before an Akure Chief Magistrate Court in the company of a detachment of policemen.
In the charge preferred against the dismissed policeman, Police Prosecutor Ayodele Atandeyi said, “that you, Alonge Abdul, 32 male, on April 2, 2013 at about 6.30pm at Plaza Hotel Akure in the Akure Magisterial did unlawfully kill one Madam Segi Olajiga with one AK47 rifle issued to you and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap 37 Vol 1 Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria.”
The Prosecutor however informed the court after the charge was read to the accused that the court lacked the jurisdiction to try a murder case.
The trial Magistrate Mrs Charity Adeyanju therefore fixed hearing of the case for June 18, 2013.
The women lawyers had in the petition against the policeman said that Abdul’s action had denied “Segi her right to life as enshrined in section 33(1) of the 1999 Constitution and should be so punished.”
In a letter signed by the association’s secretary, Mrs. Bunmi Niyi-Arajuwa, the women lawyers said “the Police officer who points loaded gun at an innocent civilian on the street is assumed to intend the killing of such civilian.”
