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  • Residents protest, burn down police station after SARS official allegedly kill undergraduate

    There was pandemonium on Thursday in Iwo town, Osun State as angry residents burn down a police station over the killing of an undergraduate allegedly by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS).

    According to a report by Premium Times, the victim, identified as Tunde Nafiu, was shot while he was trying to board a commercial motorcycle to Ile-Ogbo, a neighbouring community, at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday.

    The victim was said to be a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Iree in Osun State.

    Consequent upon the shooting, residents gathered on Friday in protest, leading to the burning of the police station in the town.

    A witness said a stray bullet hit Nafiu when the SARS officers were shooting into the air.

    “At about 9:30 pm yesterday, there was a carnival along Ile-Ogbo area of Iwo,” said a witness who asked not to be named. “At that time, the SARS guys were trying to parade and they were obstructed as a result of the on-going carnival. Afterwards, the officers were able to pass but they saw people gyrating. That prompted the shooting from the security operatives.”

    Another resident, Iyanu Ajao, told this newspaper that the death of the young man led youth in the town to mobilise for a protest, today, against the unlawful killing, which then resulted in the razing of the police station.

    According to Dauda Ahmed, who also witnessed the protest, the incident was not the first as the police officers are reportedly fond of threatening residents by shooting.

    “This is not the first time. We need to show them that they can’t just behave anyhow. All these have to stop,” he said.

    The Press Secretary to the monarch of Iwo land, Ibrahim Ali, also confirmed the incident but could not give a detailed report on the killing.

    “We are discussing the issue with the king now,” he said. “I’ll get back to you later.”

    However, the spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, Folashade Odoro, refused to comment on the issue. She said she was in the middle of a programme when contacted.

    There are reports that the police officer who fired the shot has been detained.

    The killing happened a week after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ordered the Inspector General of Police to ensure the reformation of SARS in the police structure.

  • Pandemonium in Edo as gunmen attack police station, two banks, kill 12

    There was pandemonium on Thursday as suspected robbers killed twelve persons, including a policeman, during an attack on a police station in Akoko-Edo Local Government of Edo State and invasion of two banks at Igarra, the headquarters of the council.

    Two persons, who were detained at the police station for minor offences, were also killed by the hoodlums.

    Witnesses said the robbers first attacked the police station, which is about 1.2 kilometre from the banks, to demobilise policemen.

    The suspected robbers were said to have torched the official vehicle of the new area commander and killed a policeman.

    Three other persons near the police station were reportedly hit by stray bullets.

    Four persons were killed on the banks’ premises.

    Sources claimed the robbers could not gain access to the banks’ vaults.

    A youth, Ofei Obende, said policemen at the banks tried to resist the robbers, but were overpowered.

    The Secretary to the Otaru of Igarra, Elder Folorunsho Dania, confirmed the incident. He said: “This is a serious case. Robbers have besieged Igarra. Many people were killed, 10 bodies have been counted.

    “The police station was set ablaze; the area commander’s car was torched.

    “It is a calamity. The robbers could not gain entry into the strong rooms of the banks. The people killed were outside the bank premises. A policeman was killed at the police station.”

  • BREAKING: Soldiers invade Police station, arrest DPO over murder of colleague

    There was pandemonium along Ada George Road in Port Harcourt on Thursday morning as soldiers sacked the Rumukpakani Police Station, allegedly over the killing of their colleague by a policeman.

    The murdered soldier, who was in mufti, was said to have been shot near the Police station by one of the policemen on duty.

    It was gathered that the development forced a group of angry soldiers to storm the Police station and arrested the Divisional Police Officer and the murder suspect.

     

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  • Unbelievable: Gunmen invade police station in Kogi, kill two officers

    Some gunmen early on Tuesday invaded the police station at Gegu village on Lokoja – Abuja road, killing two of the policemen on duty.

    The spokesman for Kogi State Police Command, ASP William Aya, told newsmen in Lokoja that the gunmen also injured one of the suspects in police cell.

    He said that the corpses of the slain policemen had been deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, where the injured suspect is also receiving treatment.

    Aya said that investigation had commenced into the incident which happened at about 2:15 am.

    Meanwhile, some of the villagers told newsmen that the gunmen, about five in number, came on motorcycles.

    The suspects, according to the villagers, immediately opened fire on arrival at the police station, killing two of the policemen on duty and fatally injuring one of the suspects in cell.

    The incident, the villagers said, led to disruption in traffic movement in the ever busy Lokoja – Abuja road.

    Normal traffic movement had since resumed on the road.

  • Gunmen attack Bayelsa police station, kill officer, injure others

    One policeman and three others were allegedly injured when some yet-to-be-identified gunmen attacked a police station in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Tuesday morning.

    An eyewitness told Channels TV that suspected oil thieves invaded the police station at about 8:00 am on Tuesday morning.

    Two days ago, unidentified gunmen had also struck in the Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, where they reportedly abducted a local boat owner, Mr. John Okotoro.

    Three weeks ago, gunmen also killed some personnel of the Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta, Operation Delta Safe.

     

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