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| Damilola |
A seven-month pregnant lady was shot and killed at the Arepo area of Ogun State as the battle between oil vandals and members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), guiding the oil pipelines enters its second day.
The lady, identified as Mrs.
Damilola Fajana, who got married last year, was shot and killed as she left the hospital
bed side of her sick husband, intent on going home to get something for him.
She was cut in the cross fire
between the OPC and the vandals, who wore army camouflage uniforms and red bandana.
Sympathisers dashed to the hospital where her husband was on admission to break
the tragic news to him. The man fainted on hearing that his less than a year
bride and pregnant wife was dead.
Doctors who were duty were said to
have battled to resuscitate and saved his life. A mobile policeman also
received bullet inflicted injuries. He is now at undisclosed hospital, battling
to live.
An
eye witness said: “She was shot on the neck and lost consciousness. A man
driving in his own car saw her and tried to take her to hospital, but OPC men
prevented him. It took the intervention of a policewoman before OPC allowed her
to be taken to hospital. She was however rejected at the private hospital she
was taken to. She died on the way to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
(LASUTH).”
Frightened residents have remained
indoors, as the vandals were said to have started setting buildings on fire,
including police post. The residents said they were tired of living in fear.
Residents in the area explained that
the vandals who stormed the community in a commando style, came on a reprisal
attacked, to avenge the killing of one of their colleagues. The said colleague
was allegedly killed by the OPC guarding the pipelines on Sunday.
The reprisal attack started on Monday,
but snowballed on Wednesday, leading to the shooting and instant death of
Damilola. The deceased was said to have been killed, as the vandals, shot
sporadically, making their way to the shore of the river.
Another resident said: “The lady
killed was a lawyer. She was returning from the hospital, where she went to
visit his husband who had been on the sick bed for some days, when they killed
her. She woman was making a U turned to her resident at Duru
Street, Beach land Estate, when the unfortunate bullet hit her on the neck.”
Another resident of the area, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the vandals started screaming as
their gun fire rocked the community.
The resident continued: “They screamed
that they didn’t want OPC in the community. They said they were comfortable
with mobile policemen attached to the area. After shooting for a while, they
went straight to the security post and set it ablaze. Due to the incessant attacks
in the area, some of the landlords had packed out of their buildings,
relocating to other areas.”
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