DPO removed over killing of mother of four

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Isheri Oshun Police Division, identified as Kenneth, has been redeployed over the killing of a mother of four by a police corporal attached to his station. 

Kenneth was said to have been queried by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, while the other team members are facing orderly room trial.
It was learnt that Owoseni ordered the DPO’s redeployment after the ugly incident that claimed the life of the woman and injured her husband, Sunday Godwin, who is still lying critically ill at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Mushin.
The corporal identified as Aremu, who shot Mrs Comfort Godwin, the wife of tricycle operator at Isheri Oshun area of the state, had been charged for murder at Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court and remanded in prison custody. Before his arraignment in court on Friday, Aremu was given a day orderly room trial, found guilty and dismissed from the police.Godwin, a tricycle operator, wife (Comfort) and four children, were returning from a church programme at Jakande area of Lagos while the policemen on a ‘stop-and-search’ duty flagged them down and demanded a N50 bribe.
But Godwin, who was not carrying passengers but family members, told them he had no money. Angered by his response, Aremu was said to have corked his gun and opened fire on the family. While Godwin and his wife were short, their four children, among them an 11-year-old baby, escaped death by a whisker.
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