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Police report on Okija may be delayed, says Olakpe
FINAL police reports on the Okija shrine may not be out soon, it was disclosed yesterday.
Speaking with The Guardian yesterday in Lagos, the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Chris Olakpe, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), said investigations of the issue were still going.
His words: "We are about getting there. Analysis on the skeletons and bodies found in the shrine is going on now.
"The investigating police officers (IPOs) are now undertaking analysis with forensic experts."
According to Olakpe, the Police would need to know the "causes or death of those bodies we found. We want to know if those people were killed by the shrine or they died because of human neglect, or they died because of they were murdered. These are the issues, and that is what forensic experts are doing now. So we should be a little bit patient."
Citing the "Boy Adam" case in London, he said: "It took over four years. British people were patient. They even had to fly down to Nigeria and worked with Nigerian forensic experts to be able to narrow the killing to South-West axis for which one Kingsley Ojo was finally arrested and prosecuted."
He, therefore, urged Nigerians to help the police do a thorough investigation: "Timeframe is not the issue, doing a holistic job is the issue here," he said.
Olakpe declared that police would raid any shrine in Nigeria "which is run in a way that is repugnant to national justice provided the public provides us with information."
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