Oshodi
town of Lagos state was driven into pandemonium yesterday as Makinde police
station was raided by youths over the alleged killing of one Rafiu Adeniji by
some policemen.
It was
gathered that a team of policemen along capitol road agege shot the deceased on
Sunday night. According to our source, trouble started at about 10.03 am when
news of the death of the deceased got to his brother who runs a hotel in the
area “it was the hotel owner who mobilized some youths to protest the killing
of his brother by a police patrol team” the source explained.
Vehicular
movement around oshodi and its environs were interrupted by the incident but
the Deputy Public Relations officer of the Lagos police command Damasus Ozoani in
a statement said that “what happened was that a young man identified as Rafiu Adeniji
was shot by unknown persons at Agege area on Sunday. The man was alleged to have
been taken to a hospital at Oshodi”. Damasus assured that nobody was injured in
the incident.
No comments:
Post a Comment