Since then, his family and friends, their lawyer and surprisingly, the police in Ogun State, are at a loss as to why those identified as having a hand in his death are still walking around free.
The late Apollo’s relations and the Oguntedo Village in Agbara area of Ogun State are asking whether the state would allow their son’s alleged killers go free without any attempt made to give them justice.
They claim the suspects were known to the government, which they say, appears reluctant to put them on trial for the alleged murder of Johnson.
The lawyer representing the late Johnson’s family and Oguntedo Village, Mr. Niyi Akinmola, a former Vice-Chairman, Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), told The Guardian that the inaction of Ogun State Justice Ministry “makes him wonder if the officials believe in justice and whether they believe and accept that all people of Ogun State are equal before the law.”
A member of the Ogun State chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Mr. Ernest Adeleke, who also spoke with The Guardian, condemned the alleged failure of the government officials to prosecute the suspects.
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