They’re shielding my husband’s killers —Oyerinde’s wife
MAY 17, 2013
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and Late Olaitan Oyerinde
Wife of Olaitan Oyerinde, the slain Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Funke, has alleged that the government knows her husband’s killers and is shielding them from justice.
She stated this in an interview with our correspondent on the sidelines of the one-year remembrance lecture organised by Labour leaders in honour of her husband in Lagos on Thursday.
The lecture was entitled, ‘Sanctity of Life and Democracy in Nigeria’.
Gunmen killed her husband on May 4, 2012, in Benin.
Funke, who expressed dissatisfaction with the way the police were handling the case, however, noted that justice would catch up with her husband’s killers.
She said, “I cannot say they are trying with the way they have been going about the case and muddling up things.
“The killers obviously know themselves and they know what they are doing, and I know the government knows the killers and they are hiding them. But I believe with the help of the good citizens of this country, God will fish the persons out. I know that justice will prevail.”
Meanwhile, the National President of the Textile Workers Union, Mr. Dele Hunsu, who chaired the lecture, frowned on the level of unresolved murders in the country.
He said, “The kind of carnage we have experienced in this administration, we have never had it in the history of this country even during the military days.
“There is no security of human lives and property and it was this insecurity that consumed Oyerinde”.
Secretary of the Joint Action Front, Mr. Abiodun Aremu, also decried the long list of union leaders reportedly murdered in the struggle for emancipation of the masses.
He noted, “With all the deaths in the union, the climax was the assassination of Oyerinde, which for me, was very devastating.
“It is an irony of life, when those who are not supposed to die 40 years from now, and those who are supposed to bury you are dead, then as a leader, you wonder what you are living for.”
He described the late Oyerinde as an epitome of “humility, intelligence and eloquence”.
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu, blamed union leaders for their inability to present a common front against oppression and assassination, which he said had increased “impunity and corruption” in the country.
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