Fasoranti’s daughter: We will get the murderers – IGP

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, Saturday, assured Nigerians that his men will get and bring to justice the killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasorantin.

Mrs. Olakunrin, 58, was shot and killed between Kajola and Ore in Ondo State, Friday morning, by criminals suspected to be killer herders on her way to Lagos. She had just visited her 93-year-old father who was still mourning the death, earlier, of another daughter.

Although the exact identities of the murderers remained hazy, Saturday night, the IGP promised to get them and make them to face the full weight of the law.

Mr. Mohammed Adamu’s reaction was contained in a statement released in Abuja, this evening, by the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Mr. Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police.

In it, Mba disclosed that the police had already commenced a nationwide manhunt for the killers. And there would be no hiding place for them, the IGP reportedly promised.

Here is the full text of Mba’s statement:

The Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu,NPM,mni has assured the Nation that the killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasorantin will certainly be found and made to face the full weight of the Law.

The IGP notes that the Ondo State Police Command, backed by Special Forces and seasoned investigators from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) and the Technical Intelligence Unit (TIU) deployed from the Force Headquarters, Abuja, on his directives, have already commenced a massive manhunt for the killers with a view to tracking, arresting and bringing them to justice.

While condemning the heinous and barbaric crime, the IGP, as part of measures to prevent a future occurrence of such incidence, has ordered the total overhaul of security architecture on the highways straddling the Southern part of the country.

In this vein, the Commissioners of Police in the affected States were ordered by the IGP to emplace adequate security arrangement in their areas of jurisdiction (AOR). He equally assures the nation that the Force Headquarters has perfected plans to replicate the special security arrangement powered by “Operation Puff Adder” currently ongoing in Kaduna- Abuja expressway in key highways in the Southern part of the country.

The IGP further reiterates the fact that the Force will not rest on its oars until sanity is restored in every nook and cranny of the country. He therefore calls for calm and support from all Nigerians, especially residents of Ondo State, in aid of the current investigation.

DCP FRANK MBA

FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

FORCE HEADQUARTERS

ABUJA