The family of 16-year-old Abdul Qudus Agbolade, who died on October 20, 2020, during the #EndSARS protest as a result of bullets fired by the police at Ojoo area of Ibadan, on Wednesday testified before the Oyo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Police Brutality about the circumstances that led to the death of their teenage son.
Late Agbolade’s family told the panel which held its 44th sitting at the House of Chiefs building, Secretariat, Ibadan in its petition against the Nigeria police, Ojo division, that their son was going to Moniya and was about to board a bus at Ojoo when he was hit by a bullet from a gun fired by policemen from the division.
One of those that testified for the family, Mr Babatunde Olaniyi, who was an eyewitness to the incident and a family friend to the deceased said they were both going to board a bus going to Moniya along with Ojoo police station when police gunshot hit the deceased on the leg and while he was trying to assist the victim to his feet, another bullet was shot at the deceased by a policeman identified as Sunday, and it hit him on the chest
He said the incident happened on October 20, 2020, during the End SARS protest, adding that he ran for safety after this, leaving Abdul Qudus in the pool of his blood till he died.
He explained that after this, he went to inform the parents of the deceased who came to pick the corpse which they took to a radio station in the state, where it was reported and aired.
According to him, the body of the late Abdul Qudus Agbolade was thereafter deposited at the Adeoyo State hospital morgue at Yemetu.
He told the panel that the late Abdul Qudus Agbolade was 16 years old when he met his untimely death and was a student of Mount Olivet Grammar School Bodija Estate, Ibadan and was also learning welding at Moniya area.
In his testimony, the father of the deceased, Mr Agbolade Hammed appealed to the panel to compel the respondent to compensate the family adequately for the untimely death of their promising child.
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