Fasoranti’s Daughter: Police not serious with investigation, says Afenifere -

The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has accused the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) of not being serious about finding the killers of Olufunke Olakurin, the daughter of its leader, Reuben Fasoranti.

Olakurinwasmurderedinjuly at Ore in Ondo State by persons suspected to be herdsmen, who also took captive other passengers in the vehicle in which she was travelling during the attack.

But the group in a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin, said it was compelled to speak out over the continuous unserious manner the Nigerian Police was handling the investigation of the murder.

The group expressed its dismay that the Police authorities in Ondo State failed to carry out a forensic investigation after picking up the vehicle in which she was killed and calming to be carrying out such for weeks.

According to the group, “The police had shown signs that it had no plans to launch any serious investigation into the matter”.

“Kehinde Fasoranti, the junior brother of the deceased had stated openly a day after the incident that the police in Ore told him the sister was killed by Fulani herdsmen when he went to collect her body the day she was killed and challenged the police to bring out the statement he wrote at their station. They have not contradicted him till date,” the statement read.

“The first sign we got that there was no attempt to launch any serious investigation into the murder was when the car in which she was killed was released to the family from Ore police station the day after the murder without any forensic investigation into the most prized evidence at the scene of the crime.

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