Segun Fabunmi,
The Divisional Police Officer, DPO,
Pen Cinema Police Divisional
Headquarters,
has been arrested and
detained on the orders of the
Lagos State Police
Commissioner, Yakubu Alkali.
P.M.NEWS learnt that Alkali
ordered the arrest of Fabunmi,
a Chief Superintendent of
Police, CSP, who allegedly shot
dead Demola Aderinto, one of
the youths playing football on
a street at Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos,
Southwest Nigeria, during
today’s nationwide protest
against the fuel subsidy
removal.
It was gathered this afternoon
that Alkali ordered that the killer
DPO be detained at the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS cell in
Ikeja pending the investigation
of the incident.
The state Police Command
spokesman, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, a
Deputy Superintendent of Police,
DSP, confirmed to P.M.NEWS that
the DPO has been arrested and
is currently being interrogated
over the incident.
The late Aderinto was playing
football with some other young
men when the DPO and his men
stormed the area.
The DPO and his men allegedly
shot into the air to disperse
the harmless street
footballers. But when they
refused to be intimidated, the
DPO and his men opened fire
on them, killing Aderinto while
three others were severely
injured and were rushed to a
nearby hospital.
Fabunmi and his men lied that
they opened fire on the
defenceless footballers
because they attempted to
disarm them.
Chairman Ifako-Ijaiye Local
Government Area of Lagos State,
Apostle Oloruntoba Oke, who
visited the Pen Cinema Police
Division demanded for justice,
adding that the autopsy report
on the deceased might confirm
the police claim or otherwise.
He condemned the unwarranted
attack on innocent citizens in
the council area and called on
the residents to be calm and not
to allow the crises degenerate
further.
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