Stray bullet kills man


 ...on first visit to Lagos

*We've no hand in the shooting —Task Force

More information on the unidentified man that was killed by a stray bullet during the enforcement of the ban on Okada by a team of policemen attached to the Lagos State Task Force, Monday, at Second Rainbow busstop, on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway has emerged.

It was gathered that Monday was the deceased’s first time to visit Lagos. He was said to have come in from Aba in Abia State to see one of his ailing relatives who is in the hospital.

Unfortunately, a stray bullet allegedly from policemen attached to the Lagos Task Force, who visited the area to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycles hit and killed him on the spot.

We've no hand in the shooting —Task Force

But in a swift reaction, the Lagos State Task Force denied having a hand in the death of the man.

Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, in a statement by Director, Press and Public Affairs, Lagos State Task Force, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, yesterday, said he led the operation on Monday.

He said the operation was smooth throughout the period of the raid, describing reports on the culpability of his men as untrue.

According to the statement, “The attention of the Lagos State Task Force has been drawn to a purported claim making rounds that officials of the agency were involved in a shoot-out at Second Rainbow Bus Stop in Amuwo Odofin, during enforcement for compliance exercise yesterday (Monday) targeted at Okada operators, which left one unidentified person dead.

“Activities of the Lagos State Task Force are carried out with the highest degree of civility and caution because we are dealing with human lives in our operations. We have been to Second Rainbow more than three times this year to carry out enforcement operations and have never recorded any injury, talk more of loss of life.

“There was no provocation at all during yesterday’s exercise. So the claim that we fired live ammunition at Okada operators is completely false.

“Though enforcement operations are not people friendly, the agency still make sure that human lives and property are preserved during traffic enforcement activities as traffic offence is not a criminal offence.”

Meanwhile, the body of the victim was said to have been removed by his relatives some hours after the incident.

Culled from Vanguard

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