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| The late Akintoye |
All hell broke loose on Wednesday on
Olaleye Street, in the Iponri area of Lagos State, after an armed robber
shot dead a leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, Sanjo Akintoye,
during a failed attack.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the
robber, who came on a motorcycle with another suspect, expended his
bullets on the 43-year-old security guard, who struggled with him till
the end.
As he made to reload his pistol, residents swooped on him and broke his skull with stones, sticks and bottles.
He died on the spot and the corpse was recovered by policemen from the Iponri division.
Our correspondent, who visited the
scene, learnt that the suspect and his accomplice had trailed a worker
at a construction site, who had gone to withdraw N500,000 from a branch
of Zenith bank in the area.
A witness, who did not identify himself, said the rider and the passenger were challenged for riding a motorcycle into the area.
He said, “One of us was asked to
withdraw money from the Zenith Bank around 11am. As he was coming back
on foot, he was surprised to see two people following him on a
motorcycle.
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