By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN—MEMBERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, human rights community, friends and associates of the late Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Olaitan Oyerinde, yesterday, held a third year memorial meeting in honour of late Oyerinde, who was also a Deputy General Secretary of the NLC.

They called on relevant authorities to bring Oyerinde’s killers  to book, lamenting that despite the petitions and appeals, the Federal Government failed to arrest the true killers of their colleague who was murdered at his residence in Benin City three years ago.

Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary, Textile Workers Union, Issa Aremu, said the killing of Oyerinde raised the “painful nostalgia of Nigeria’s unresolved individual murder cases, high or low without an official declaration of war.”

He lamented the controversies that surrounded the killing of Oyerinde which led to the police and the Department of State Security, DSS, parading two sets of suspects for the same offence, describing same as shameful.

Former Attorney General of Edo State, Osagie Obayuwana described the late Oyerinde as “a bridge builder, tender, humorous yet fearless. It is my hope that one day, the Nigerian Police will feel challenged that an offence had been committed and will not rest until it is investigated.”

In his opening remarks, one of the conveners of the event, Taiwo Akerele described Oyerinde as a humane person.

“He was prepared for the assignment he was executing at the time he fell to the cold of hands of death, he was a thorough bred intellectual, he had a sound clarity of thought, solid background on the administrative philosophy of his boss and a clear ideology on the imperatives of social inclusion.”