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Father Of Sylvester Oromoni Accuses Police, Public Prosecutors Of Covering Up Cause Of Death

Father Of Sylvester Oromoni Accuses Police, Public Prosecuto

Sylvester Oromoni Senior, father of the late Dowen College student, has made allegations of a cover-up between the Nigeria Police Force and Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) over the circumstances surrounding his son’s death.

Oromoni Senior made the allegations on Tuesday at an Ikeja Coroner’s Court while being cross-examined by Akin George, Counsel to Lagos State Government.

He raised questions about why the five senior students of Dowen College, who allegedly bullied his son, were exonerated and released by the DPP’s advice 14 days into the 21-day remand order given by a Yaba Magistrates’ Court.

He noted that the Magistrate Court had given the 21-day remand order to give the police time to carry out investigations into the matter.

The witness, who was very emotional and often broke down in tears during his testimony, questioned the timing of the release of the five students by the DPP.

Oromomi said: “There is a massive cover-up and it is here (in the police report).

”A Magistrates’ Court in Yaba requested 21days and after the 14 days, the boys were granted bail when the police were not done with their investigations.

“When I saw the Lagos State Commissioner of Police (Hakeem Odumosu) and told him about it, he told me that, that was not true that they were not done with their investigations.

“He even said that on the day it was said that they had released those boys, the courts were not sitting.

”I then called the Deputy Commissioner of Police, he told me the same thing and told me to give him some time.

“After about two to four minutes, he called me back and he confirmed that they were given 21days for their investigations and the boys had just spent 14 days in detention.

“They (police) said they were going to write a protest letter. They were already interrogating two of the students and revelations were coming out so they were taken by surprise.

“The same Commissioner of Police, after some days now publicly declared that at the instance of the Governor, the Attorney-General and the DPP said there was nothing wrong with the boys, therefore, they’ve released them.”

Oromoni continued that Odumosu had addressed the public during the 2021 Christmas public holidays and that there were only three working days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) that week.

“At what point did they complete their investigation, give all the case files to the DPP to go through and the DPP to come up with their report?," he asked.

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