{"id":16547,"date":"2019-04-03T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T14:55:18","slug":"killer-policemen-will-be-prosecuted-says-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16547","title":{"rendered":"Killer policemen will be prosecuted, says Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two policemen who allegedly pulled the trigger that felled a football fan are really in trouble. Even President Muhammadu Buhari has weighed in on te needless killing insisting on the prosecution of the trigger-happy men.<br \/>\nThe police said on Twitter, \u201cThe men suspected to have carried out the shooting of Kolade Johnson have been apprehended and subjected to internal disciplinary procedures. The CP has revealed their names as (1) Insp Ogunyemi Olalekan and (2) Sgt Godwin Orji attached to Anti Cultism Squad.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16548\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16548\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kolade-Johnsons-killers-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The policemen<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWednesday, a statement by the President&#8217;s office said he regrets the recent unfortunate action of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives from the Lagos State Police Command, which led to the avoidable death of Mr. Kolade Johnson, and commiserates deeply with the family of the deceased.<br \/>\nHe acknowledges the genuine outrage regarding the activities of SARS and reassures the public that swift actions have already been taken. Suspects are in custody and an orderly room trial is set to commence immediately, following which indicted officers will be prosecuted in court.<br \/>\nAccording to President Buhari, \u201cGovernment will not tolerate in any way the brutalization of Nigerians or the violation of their rights. Any officer of the law enforcement agencies or any other government functionary caught in this act will certainly be visited with the full weight of the law.\u201d<br \/>\nRecall that following directives from the Presidency in 2018 to overhaul the management and activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, steps were taken by the Police leadership to restructure and reform SARS. The President recognizes that a lot more remains to be done and this effort must be sustained.<br \/>\nHe reassures that this administration will continue to ensure that all officers in the Police and other law enforcement agencies conduct their operations in strict adherence to the rule of law and with due regard to International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two policemen who allegedly pulled the trigger that felled a football fan are really in trouble. Even President Muhammadu Buhari has weighed in on te needless killing insisting on the prosecution of the trigger-happy men. The police said on Twitter, \u201cThe men suspected to have carried out the shooting of Kolade Johnson have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}