#Justice For Tina Protest In Lagos Has Been Stopped By Police Force

Justice For Tina: The Protest Organized by activists to call for Justice over the killing of The Teenager identified as Tina Ezekwe,has been stopped by the Nigeria Police Force.

The lady was shot by a police man trying to enforce curfew set in place to harness the spread of the Corona Virus in the city.

Though she was immediately rushed to a hospital for medical attention, the 17-year-old didn’t survive.

A protest was slated for 11:00am Thursday to demand justice over her killing had been forced to be postponed after the Divisional Police Officer of Bariga Police Station refused to allow organisers to express their constitutional rights to protest Healthforbes Media reporting.

Though the officers involved in the killing, ASP Theophilus Otobo and Inspector Oguntoba Olamigoke, have been arrested by the police authorities for the murder of the girl, young people around the area the teenager was killed under the platform of Oworo Youth Forum have demanded compensation for family of the victim.

The group said, “We at Oworo Youth Forum are not only calling for the perpetrators to be arrested, paraded and prosecuted publicly but also demanding that the family of Tina must be adequately compensated for their loss.

“We want to make it categorically clear that this will not be one of those cases that will be swept under the carpet under the disguise of orderly room trial and prosecution.

“We will engage and resist with everything we have within the ambit of the law to make sure justice is not beheaded.”