Oyerinde’s Murder: Oshiomhole storms Reps today

By Evelyn - Posted on 27 February 2013

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Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole will today, meet members of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition over public outcry on the alleged complicity and improper investigation of the murder of Comrade Oyerinde Olaitan by the Nigeria Police.
Governor Oshiomhole in collaboration with civil society organisations in Edo State will be attending a public hearing of the House of Representatives in furtherance to the February l3, 2Ol3 first meeting of the Committee on Public Petition against the Nigeria police on alleged improper investigation and complicity made by Edo State Civil Society organisations on the death of Comrade Oyerinde Olaitan.
Human rights fighter, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana is expected to stand for the Edo State Civil Society, while Comrade Peter Esele will lead the TUC to the public hearing.
Meanwhile, the unfounded charges and framing up of Comrade David Ugolor, on the cruel assassination of the Private Secretary to the Edo State Governor, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde was unanimously condemned by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) during its NEC meeting held in Benin City on Thursday last week.
In a communique signed and issued by the President General and Secretary General, Comrade Peter Esele and (Barr.) Musa Lawal respectively TUC called for justice on the dastardly assassination of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde.
The NEC-in session, while praising the endurance of Comrade David Ugolor, called on the National Assembly to ensure justice as demanded by the acquitted freedom fighter, particularly in relation to the role played by the police authorities.
Comrade Peter Esele and Barr. Musa Lawal in the NEC Session maintained that the TUC also throws its weight behind the position of the Edo State Governor in calling for justice especially on the unedifying role played by the police on this matter. Besides, the NEC in session in its resolution at the end of the meeting joined well- meaning Nigerians in condemning the misappropriation of N4bn for the proposed First Lady’s Mission Home.
While lending its voice to Prof. Wole Soyinka’s view that the project is a mind-boggling fiscal misappropriation, the NEC in session maintained that such project is another drain pipe on the nation’s economy.
The executive body of the union therefore called on the Federal Government to stop forthwith the project, stressing that all monies proposed for the mission home should be applied to create jobs for the unemployed youths in Nigeria.