Outrage as Owode Onirin market traders protest killing of seven

By Providence Ayanfeoluwa

Traders astatine Owode-Onirin Motor Spare Parts Market person called connected the Lagos State House of Assembly to represent an autarkic investigative sheet to probe the August 27, 2025, killings, which claimed 7 lives.

Recall that aboriginal this year, implicit 500 shops were demolished astatine the marketplace by a fashionable onshore grabber (names withheld) who unleashed thugs with the assistance of constabulary officers to intimidate and dislodge morganatic traders.
The traders made the telephone during a protestation jointly organised by Centre for Human and Socio-economic Rights, CHSR, seeking the summoning of Police officers, the onshore grabber and Ministry of Justice officials.
They further demanded that the Attorney General, Mr Lawal Pedro, SAN, beryllium summoned for questioning implicit his nationalist misrepresentation of facts; called for compensation and alleviation for families of the deceased and survivors of the massacre.
They called connected the Inspector General of Police to re-arrest the released officers and onshore grabber for prosecution successful Lagos state, wherever the offence occurred.
Their cry: “Legislate instrumentality against onshore grabbing and constabulary complicity, ensuring stiffer penalities for individuals and authorities actors who alteration specified crimes”.
The deceased include: Mr. Seyi Akinboye, 39; Adeoye Taiwo, 29; Dare Mufutau, 32; Aderemi Hakeem, 27; Abraham Temilola, 33; and Wale Adebayo, 29 years old.
Speaking, President of CHSR, Comr. Alex Omotehinse explained that contempt pending tribunal actions and petitions, the marketplace witnessed an unprecedented bloodbath erstwhile 4 policemen from Nasarawa State, arsenic acclaimed by the Lagos State Police Command, allegedly hired and brought to Lagos by the onshore grabber, stormed the marketplace with guns, firing indiscriminately astatine traders.
Omotehinse said: “By the extremity of that achromatic Wednesday, six traders laic dead, galore others were grievously injured, and astir 50 vehicles and countless goods were destroyed.
“The behaviour of the Nigeria Police Force successful this substance has been shameful. After killings, alternatively of being tried successful Lagos, the officers were secretly transferred to Abuja, subjected to questionable “orderly country trial”, and released connected the mendacious pretext of self-defence.
“The Owode-Onirin massacre represents a nationalist shame and a motivation nonaccomplishment of governance successful Lagos state, it is simply a calamity that would person been avoided had the House of Assembly acted upon CHSR’s petitions”.

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