The Inspector-General of Police Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun has ordered the Homicide section of the Force Headquarters to take over the investigation of 3 officers identified in the brutal killing of Kwara State Polytechnic student, Qoyum Abdulyekeen.
Force Spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi said in a statement on Monday that the officers involved in the incident were identified as Inspector Abiodun Kayode, Inspector James Emmanuel, and Sergeant Oni Philip, attached to the Department of Operations, Kwara State Command have been detained and the IGP has ordered through investigation.
The force headquarters taking over of the case, WikkiTimes understand may not be unconnected with the 48-hour ultimatum given to the police by the leadership of the Students Union of the Polytechnic.
The SUG, in a press conference led by its Saheed Olalekan Ishola on Monday, vowed to take peaceful and unrelenting action if the police failed to reveal the identity of its officers involved in the incident in the next 48 hours.
The students’ union expressed outrage over the brutal killing of the student by a police officer and demanded justice, including payment of restitution to the family and immediate stoppage of police brutality and extortion of students in the name of stop-and-search operations.
However, Adejobi said the IGP has ordered for the transfer of the case to the force headquarters, assuring that justice will be served.
“The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered the Homicide section of the FCID Abuja to embark on a detailed and comprehensive investigation into the alleged killing of Qoyum Abdulyekeen Ishola, a student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State, which occurred on the 4th of September 2024”.
“The officers involved in this incident have been identified as Inspector Abiodun Kayode, Inspector James Emmanuel, and Sergeant Oni Philip, attached to the Department of Operations, Kwara State Command and they have been consequently detained for investigation”, he said.
