The sitting resumed on Monday but there were no meaningful progress since the salient respondents/witnesses were absent especially the Divisional Police Officer DPO, of Dugbe Police station, Osogbo and the Officer in charge of Homicide. It should be remembered that the Coroner, Magistrate Ayilara had on 10th, May 2017 ordered for the summon of the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fimihan Adeoye to come and testify before the inquest before the case was adjourned to 15th May 2017.
What was the Reaction of the Coroner when he found that his orders were disobeyed?
He was furious with the Divisional Police Officer DPO, of Dugbe Police station, Osogbo and the Officer in charge of Homicide; and threatened arresting them if they fail to appear in the next sitting (today). According to him, “By the virtue of the coroner’s law, everyone involves in this exercise must appear to give testimony. And as such, I need the police officer and others to be able to explain to the court that they identified the corpse, that is what we need. “For this reason, failure to appear before this coroner inquest panel would be interpreted otherwise because if they don’t come, I will assume that they are deliberately frustrating our efforts.
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