Yoruba Nation Rally: Lagos Police Charge Agitator For Murder Of 14-year-old Street Trader Hit By Stray Bullet
Tajudeen Bakare, one of the 48 Yoruba Nation demonstrators detained by police on July 3, has been charged with the murder of a street merchant, Jumoke Oyeleke.
On that date, fourteen-year-old Oyeleke was killed by a stray bullet during a Yoruba self-determination protest in Ojota, Lagos.
The 48 protesters who were arrested on the same day were charged before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.
This is according to a statement signed by the Communications Manager, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Maxwell Adeleye.
The statement read, “The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, has charged the 48 Yoruba Nation Protesters arrested on Saturday 3rd July 2021 in Ojota, Lagos before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba.
“They were charged for Unlawful Assembly, unlawful society and conducts likely to cause breach of public peace.
“However, one of the arrested protesters, Tajudeen Bakare (the popular Ogboni Chief) was charged by the police for the murder of a sachet water hawker, Jumoke Oyeleke, killed by a stray bullet during the protest.
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“The bail granted to all the protesters was upheld by the Court but that of Bakare was revoked. The Court refers Bakare’s case to the Director of Public Prosecutor (DPP) for further advice.”
