Officers of the Ogun State Police Headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, are requesting a N100,000 bribe from Bose Francis, a Lagos-based caregiver, before they can prosecute her younger brother’s killer.

Someone familiar with the case, who asked not to be named but was pressed to speak because Bose was running around begging friends and relatives for funds without success, told FIJ that the officers considered her unserious when she told them she could not afford to pay what they demanded.

She said that a policewoman from Ajuwon Police Station, the division that arrested the killer of Wisdom Godday, Bose’s brother, and transferred the case to Eleweran, and then urged Bose to raise N20,000 if she did not want Wisdom’s killer to be released.

FIJ’s source narrated how Wisdom died after an angry neighbour only identified as Abideen stabbed him to death.

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The source said Wisdom had only tried to end fisticuffs between Abideen and another neighbour on August 14.

“When Bose’s brother heard what happened, he blamed Abideen, the one in the wrong, before he left. But Abideen went inside his house, brought out a knife and stabbed him in the neck,” the source told FIJ, adding that well-meaning people rushed the victim to three hospitals but he was pronounced dead at the third.

“The first two hospitals rejected him. The third doctor looked and confirmed that he was dead on arrival.

The source said that the Ajuwon police arrested Abideen but claimed he was under the influence of drugs after they took his statement. The Ajuwon police transferred Abideen to Eleweran three days after his arrest and demanded N10,000, which was not paid.

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“A woman in the Ajuwon Police Station told Bose to pay N5,000 for them to print out some photographs so she would paste them on the file, which she did.

“When they got to Eleweran, the police said they needed to pay N100,000 before they could take the matter to court. Later on, they said they would collect N50,000.

“But when Bose’s people said they had no such money, an officer said we had better leave the matter because it appeared like we had nothing to do.”

The source said Bose’s family told the police that they only wanted the victim’s corpse since they could not afford what they requested, but the officers said they needed some files to release his body.

“The police told us they took him to a private mortuary, and that we must pay N90,000 for embalmment, N5,000 for a form and N700 daily till the day we took his body out of the mortuary,” she said.

FIJ called Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun State police spokesperson, but he declined to comment.

FIJ also called Bose herself for comments, but she declined to speak for fear of backlash from the police.

“I do not want to speak because my brother’s corpse is still with the police, and I fear they won’t release it if I annoy them,” she said.