Pan-Yoruba sociology-cultural organisation, Afenifere on Sunday faulted what it described “lackadaisical attitude of the police” over the assassination of Olufunke Olakunri, daughter its leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti.
The Yoruba group noted that for over two months after the killing of the victim by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ore, Ondo State, investigation by the police had been shoddy.
Afenifere in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, said the driver of the car in which the deceased was killed has not been asked a question by the police till date.
While asking about the whereabouts of the killers of Funke Olakunri, he said the police have not done any serious investigations into the murder.
Odumakin said, “It’s now over two months that Mrs. Olufunke Olakunri, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti was murdered around Ore in Ondo State and we are compelled to speak out over the lackadaisical attitude of the police over the gruesome assassination.
“Mr. 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 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.
“It was when we engaged the police high command that they came to pick the car six days later. The car has now been returned to the family with no report on the examination report. Indeed, there was no attempt to carry out any autopsy on the corpse until we also demanded one from the police before the burial.”
