Alleged killing by police officer: Oyo CP sets up investigation panel

WORRIED by the report of the alleged killing of a man by a police officer attached to the state police command, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Indabawa has set up a panel to investigate the alleged killing.
The police boss directed ASP Dasuki Galadachi to monitor the panel and report to him within the shortest time possible.
Hell was let loose on Sunday at Idi-Ayunre/ Ode-aje motor park area when a man identified as Obisesan Ojo was allegedly shot dead by a police officer attached to Agugu Division.
Ojo was said to be preparing for the naming ceremony of his newly born child when he was killed on Sunday.
But the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Olabisi Okuwobi- Ilobanafor while commenting on the incident, dismissed the report that Ojo was deliberately shot by the police officer for refusing to leave the road where he was collecting money from his fellow motorcycle operators being a union official. She said: “A distress call was received by the patrol team at Agugu Division that some hoodlums were forcefully extorting money from members of the public. The patrol team led by ASP Timothy Adedeji with two other officers thereafter stormed the scene and there was pandemonium and ASP Adedeji fired a shot which hit  the deceased. An angry mob thereafter descended on the patrol team injuring Adedeji and Corporal Samuel Babatunde while Oluwatobi Ojo escaped unhurt. The injured police officers had been admitted at the hospital where they were receiving treatment. The hoodlums also  snatched AK47 rifles with no BA-343862 and 56-2-4011876 with 15 rounds of 6.72mm live ammunition. Both arms were later recovered through community relations,” she stated.
On what the command would do to the police officer she said “that was the reason the police commissioner set up a panel to investigate the incident and if he is found culpable, he will face the wrath of the law.”
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