The Ogun
State government yesterday donated N1 million to the family of Saubana
Koleosho, a car driver the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) allegedly shot dead on
March 8, 2017.
The NCS
officials allegedly killed Koleosho while pursuing him for carrying 25 bags of
rice along the Kobape road in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the
state. Daily trust report.
The
Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Barrister Taiwo Adeoluwa, who made the
donation on behalf of the state government at the Itokun area family house of
the deceased, said the money was to take care of some of the immediate needs of
the wife and the four children of the slain driver.
Adeoluwa
seized the occasion to disclose that the state government was still in search
of the culprits behind the shooting, in which two other people were also
injured.
“I can
assure you that we will not rest until the perpetrators of the killing are
brought to book.
He said for
now, the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has decided that you should be given
this amount to take care of your immediate needs,” Adeoluwa said.
Responding,
the widow, Mrs. Zainab Koleosho, thanked the state government for the gesture
and appealed for further assistance for the education of her four children.
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