Owode Onirin killings: Lagos Govt denies shielding suspects

The Lagos State Government has denied allegations that it is protecting suspects linked to the sidesplitting of six traders astatine Owode Onirin, stating that its determination not to prosecute was based solely connected insufficient evidence.

In a elaborate effect issued connected Friday, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro, SAN, faulted a work titled “Is Lagos State Shielding Killers?”, which criticised the government’s handling of the August 27, 2025 incidental involving Inspector Manu Bala and 4 different constabulary officers.

Pedro described the study arsenic “false, misleading and unsupported by facts,” insisting that nary prima facie lawsuit was established against the suspects based connected materials submitted by the Lagos State Police Command.

He explained that the police, successful enactment with Section 74 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, forwarded the lawsuit record to the Ministry of Justice for ineligible proposal aft preliminary investigations.

However, upon reviewing witnesser statements, fishy accounts and different documentary evidence, the ministry recovered nary nonstop transportation betwixt the suspects and the deaths of the six traders.

“For instance, determination was nary eyewitness relationship successful the lawsuit record confirming that the policemen changeable the deceased, contempt the incidental allegedly occurring successful a engaged market,” the rejoinder stated.

Instead, Pedro said disposable grounds i...