My Husband’s Killer Must Face The Wrath Of Law - Widow Of Slain Fashion Designer

are into this unethical behaviour, especially Point of Sales (POS) operators and Filling Sta ons to jetson such.

“The police command has emplaced an intelligence unit to arrest and subsequently prosecute such individuals or groups engaged in the sale or abuse of the Naira notes issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

“The Commissioner of police has equally directed the Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers to carry out full enforcement of the provisions of Secons 20 and 21 of the Central Bank of Nigeria Act, 2007 which criminalizes amongst other things, the hawking, selling, trading, spraying, matching, falsifying or counterfei ng of bank notes, refusal to accept the Naira as a means of payment, tampering with the Naira notes.

The Police Command therefore, enjoins members of the public to cooperate with it to ensure violators are brought to book”.

MYusuf Oketola Kazeem Badmus syndicates to rob Points of Sales (POS) operators in the state.

RS. Mariam Iwaloye, the widow of a 28year-old fashion designer, Nurudeen Quadri, popularly known as Alowonle, who was allegedly killed by some opera ves of the Osun State Police Command in the wee hours of Wednesday, January 25, 2023, has demanded jusce for her late husband.

The bereaved, while speaking with OSUN DEFENDER on Tuesday, in her late husband’s residence at Mafowurosere Street, Jaleoyemi area, Osogbo, doubted if she could bear the loss of her husband.

It would be recalled that some police officers who were reportedly hooded allegedly broke into Quadri’s room around 2am and shot him dead in the presence of his wife and his six-month-old baby.

However, the Police Public Rela ons Officer, Yemisi Opalola, while reac ng to the report, stated that Quadri was an alleged notorious robber who connived with some

According to Opalola, the deceased a empted to escape and jumped from a three-storey building when the policemen wanted to arrest him.

“I don’t know about the shoo ng. Even if he wasn’t shot, the mere fact that he fell from the storey building was enough to cause his death”, she said.

But Iwaloye disclosed that one of the police officers who came to their house shot her husband a er the leader of the team ordered him to do so.

The widow who described her husband as an easy-going person, said he was shot when he tried to run due to the shock of seeing police officers in the middle of the night.

She added that the late Qaudri had a phobia for the police, owing to various cases of harassment he had witnessed in the past.

According to her, “It was around 2am that the policemen got to our apartment and started knocking aggressively. I woke up and went to our landlady’s room. she asked them whom they sought and they told her Nurudeen. She pointed our apartment to them and they forced themselves inside.

“The police team came in the company of someone in handcuffs and when my husband saw how aggressive they were, he tried to run but he was shot by one of the officers a er the leader of the team ordered him to shoot my husband.

“My husband was an easy-going man and he was a tailor who didn’t make any trouble. The policemen who came to our house wore fez caps and jackets. I was very afraid when they entered into our room.

“I want jus ce for my husband. I have not been myself since my husband was killed. I don’t even know how to cope now. My husband’s murderers must not go scot free”.