#EndSARS: His Colleague Killed Him, Widow Of Police Inspector Says

Olamide Erinfolami, a widow of police officer, says his husband’s colleague is responsible for his death.

Recall that, Ayodeji Erinfolami, a police inspector, was shot dead during the #EndSARS protest.

Eko Hot Blog reports that she levelled the accusation against the force when she appeared before the Lagos state judicial panel on Friday.

The widow said Erinfolami was shot dead while trying to stop the #EndSARS protest at Surelere, Lagos, on October 12.

In a petition before the panel on Friday, Gbemiga Ogunleye, counsel to the widow, told the court that Erinfolami, a police inspector attached to anti-cultism and kidnapping unit, Area C, Surulere, was shot by police officers who “forcibly broke the peaceful protesters”.

She said the police abandoned his corpse at the hospital without contacting his family.

Ogunleye submitted a flash drive containing a video showing a police officer with his intestine out pen as he laid immobile on the ground fighting for his life.

He said the police officer is the husband of the petitioner.

Narrating her testimony before the panel, the widow said she lives in Ado-Ekiti, capital of Ekiti, with her children and was informed about the death of her husband by someone in Maiduguri, Borno capital.

“On October 12 2020, I was in Ado-Ekiti because I don’t stay with him in Lagos. He called me in the morning that he was going to the office and I told him that whenever he gets to work he should call me. I went to the market and I came back in the evening, I did not hear from him,” she said.

“Around 5 pm, I had a call from someone from Maiduguri and she said ‘Aunty Ola, did you hear what happened?’ And I said what? She said my husband was shot during #EndSARS protests at Surelere and I asked her: ‘How did it happen?’ Then she said she did not know that she saw it on social media.

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“I called his phone number, he has two phone numbers, nobody was picking. After about 45 minutes, I now called his number, a girl picked the call. I now asked her what happened, she said my husband was shot during #EndSARS protest.”

The widow also accused the police of abandoning her family, adding that they have refused to release his corpse for burial.