Policeman's stray bullet kills man in Ikotun
*As killer-cop arrested
*DPO nabbed over alleged killing of policeman
A stray bullet from a policeman on enforcement of the curfew imposed by the government over the spread of Coronavirus disease snuffed life out of a man in the Ikotun area of Lagos, Wednesday night.
The deceased, Fatai Ayafe, 28, was said to have gone to buy a loaf of bread at Obabiyi area of Ikotun.
The killer cop, Inspector Okoro Charles, attached to Ikotun Police Division, was said to have stopped a tricyclist at about 10.05 pm. But the tricyclist refused to stop, but in a bid to force him to stop, the policeman reportedly released a bullet from his AK 47 rifle, which hit and killed Ayafe, who was at the bread stand.
On noticing the magnitude of his deed, the killer cop and his colleagues fled the scene, thereby, allowing free passage to motorists who were earlier prevented from passing that route.
The incident led to protest as youths in the area trooped out in their numbers and placed the lifeless body of Ayafe at the middle of the road.
It was gathered that it took the persuasion of the Area Commander ‘M’, ACP Ifeanyi, and the Divisional Police officer-in-charge of Igando, CSP Taiwo Kasumu, to calm the irate youths.
The source said that Taiwo pleaded with the youths in Yoruba dialect to release the corpse to the Police before they obliged.
Late Ayafe’s distraught widow, who was just delivered a baby, was too stunned to speak to sympathisers that thronged her residence.
A spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, DSP Elkana Bala, disclosed that Inspector Okoro had been arrested.
He said: “The Inspector will be subjected to internal disciplinary procedures, known as Orderly Room Trial at the State Provost Department and if found guilty, he will be handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for prosecution in conventional court."
DPO nabbed over alleged killing of policeman
Meanwhile, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered the arrest of the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Ilemba Hausa Division in Lagos, following an allegation that he shot one of the policemen in the division dead.
There were different accounts as to how the deceased cop, Sergeant Onalaja Onajide, who was the Station Guard was shot dead in front of the division, on May 10, 2020.
An account said the late Onajide, who had eight holes of pellets wounds in his chest was shot by an unknown person.
But the CP, according to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Elkana Bala, had ordered the transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba for discreet investigation.
Culled from Vanguard
*DPO nabbed over alleged killing of policeman
A stray bullet from a policeman on enforcement of the curfew imposed by the government over the spread of Coronavirus disease snuffed life out of a man in the Ikotun area of Lagos, Wednesday night.
The deceased, Fatai Ayafe, 28, was said to have gone to buy a loaf of bread at Obabiyi area of Ikotun.
The killer cop, Inspector Okoro Charles, attached to Ikotun Police Division, was said to have stopped a tricyclist at about 10.05 pm. But the tricyclist refused to stop, but in a bid to force him to stop, the policeman reportedly released a bullet from his AK 47 rifle, which hit and killed Ayafe, who was at the bread stand.
On noticing the magnitude of his deed, the killer cop and his colleagues fled the scene, thereby, allowing free passage to motorists who were earlier prevented from passing that route.
The incident led to protest as youths in the area trooped out in their numbers and placed the lifeless body of Ayafe at the middle of the road.
It was gathered that it took the persuasion of the Area Commander ‘M’, ACP Ifeanyi, and the Divisional Police officer-in-charge of Igando, CSP Taiwo Kasumu, to calm the irate youths.
The source said that Taiwo pleaded with the youths in Yoruba dialect to release the corpse to the Police before they obliged.
Late Ayafe’s distraught widow, who was just delivered a baby, was too stunned to speak to sympathisers that thronged her residence.
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| Late Fatai Ayafe |
He said: “The Inspector will be subjected to internal disciplinary procedures, known as Orderly Room Trial at the State Provost Department and if found guilty, he will be handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for prosecution in conventional court."
DPO nabbed over alleged killing of policeman
Meanwhile, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered the arrest of the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Ilemba Hausa Division in Lagos, following an allegation that he shot one of the policemen in the division dead.
There were different accounts as to how the deceased cop, Sergeant Onalaja Onajide, who was the Station Guard was shot dead in front of the division, on May 10, 2020.
An account said the late Onajide, who had eight holes of pellets wounds in his chest was shot by an unknown person.
But the CP, according to the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Elkana Bala, had ordered the transfer of the case to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba for discreet investigation.
Culled from Vanguard
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