Agbeyegbe: Police Await Autopsy Report
By Eugene Agha
There are strong indications that the Police authorities in Lagos may want to make public the medical report of late Jerry Agbeyegbe upon the receipt of the report.
Late Agbeyegbe was assassinated at Alapere, Ketu by yet to be identified gunmen.
The revelation came even as some groups of people from the aviation industry who identified themselves as Friends of Agbeyegbe yesterday, asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Tafa Balogun, to investigate the rationale behind the police detention of a lady allegedly said to have accompanied the late pilot on the day he was assassinated.
A police source at the Anti-Robbery Section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, said police was yet to receive the autopsy report of the slain pilot.
Though the police authorites still maintained that late Agbeyegbe was actually involved in an accident at the Alapere end of Ketu, the source added that only the autopsy report would shed light on the cause of death.
"We expect that the report would be out by Friday (today)," the source said.
The source stated that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Alapere Police Station may have been queried. However, this could not be ascertained as at press time, but the source added that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Israel Ajao, was not satisfied with the way the matter was handled.
Meanwhile, some group of people, simply identified as the friends of Jerry Agbeyegbe, are calling on the IGP to constitute a panel that would investigate the circumstance that led to the detention of the lady purported to have been in company of the late pilot as at the time the incident occurred.
According to the group, those who handled the case should be made to explain why the lady who was identified as Juliet Okonkwo was not taken to the hospital for medical treatment even thought it was apparent that she was unconscious as at the time she was found.
This singular act, they said goes to show that there was more to it than meets the eyes.
"How can a woman who was declared unconscious by the police be detained in a police cell rather than be taken to the hospital where she would be treated" they asked.
The group further stated that those who have worked closely with Jerry Agbeyegbe alleged that the late pilot's car was a mobile library to him. And that how come the police never found anything in the vehicle after the accident occurred.
"We were made to understand that the deceased lap top computer and some documents on aviation were discovered to be missing," they added.
Suspected gunmen shot and killed Jerry Agbeyegbe on the early hours of Wednseday.
The late pilot who was coming from Victoria Island and was believed to be heading for Alapere, Ketu, in company of a lady who was identified as Juliet Okonkwo, according to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Emmanuel Ighodalo, ran into a culvert and died instantly in his BMW car with registration number DB244 EKY.
Ighodalo, a superintendent of police (SP), added the lady was found unconscious after the accident and was revived at the station.
However, the BMW 5 Series in which he was travelling in, observed the family, did not have any sign of a fatal accident.
A bullet that was ostensibly fired directly into his chest pierced through the windscreen before meeting the target.
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