The police in Lagos State, on Thursday, prevented activists and other concerned individuals from protesting the killing of a teenage girl, Tina Ezekwe, in the metropolis.
The teenager, last Tuesday, was reportedly hit by a bullet from the gun of a policeman trying to enforce the curfew put in place to curb the spread of Coronavirus at the Iyana Oworo end of the city.
Though she was promptly rushed to a hospital for medical attention, the 17-year-old did not make it at the end of the day.
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A protest slated for 11:00a.m, on Thursday, to demand justice over her killing was forced to be postponed after the Divisional Police Officer of Bariga Police Station refused to allow organisers to express their go ahead with the protest.
Though the officers involved in the killing, ASP Theophilus Otobo and Inspector Oguntoba Olamigoke, have been indicted by the police authorities for the murder of the girl, young people around the area the teenager was killed, under the platform of Oworo Youth Forum, have demanded compensation for family of the victim.
The group had said, “We at Oworo Youth Forum are not only calling for the perpetrators to be arrested, paraded and prosecuted publicly but also demanding that the family of Tina must be adequately compensated for their loss.
“We want to make it categorically clear that this will not be one of those cases that will be swept under the carpet under the disguise of orderly room trial and prosecution.
“We will engage and resist with everything we have within the ambit of the law to make sure justice is not beheaded.”