Residents of Akpiri Street, Olodi Apapa, Lagos
State, where Adaobi Ifeanyi was shot to death by six policemen and Emmanuel
Akomafuwa inflicted with bullet wound, have described policemen from Trinity
Police Station as notorious and given to human rights violations.
Incidentally, Akpiri is two streets away from the
Trinity Police Station, where members of the killer team, comprising Inspector
Adamu Usman, Sergeant Adeyeye Adeoye, Sergeant Kashim Tijani, Sergeant Lucky
Akigbe, Sergeant Paul Adeoye and Inspector Dania Ojo, were attached to.
One of residents, Teju, said that on that the
fateful morning of the incident, they heard sounds of gunshots.
He said that the policemen all took to their heels
after shooting Adaobi and Akomafuwa.
“The policemen all ran away before we got to the scene of the shooting,”
said Teju.
Teju said: “We’re still asking ourselves the offence
those people committed to warrant being shot at by the police. Some of them
have children of such ages at home. We know most of these policemen. We used to
drink together.”
Another resident, who didn’t want his name
mentioned, said: “Some minutes after the
incident, policemen returned to the scene to clean the bloodstains and picked
the bullets.”
He disclosed that the Trinity Police Station and the
men working at the station are notorious for harassing people.
He disclosed: “They are fond of harassing young
boys, labeling them yahoo boys. They arrest them and extort these young men. If
not that the incident happened and is still fresh, you would have seen young
men running away from approaching policemen. It is too much with policemen in
Trinity station. We hope this incident will make the Lagos State Commissioner
of Police to look into the activities of the officers attached to the station. I
can tell you that it was the same yahoo boy stuff that made to shoot that boy
and his girlfriend.”
Attempts made by our correspondent to speak with Akomafuwa’s
father were rebuffed by family members. But his house was filled with
sympathisers.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of
Trinity Police Station, who came to Adaobi’s father house, appealed to the
family members to take things easy.
The Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), Trinity Police
Station, Ralph, clearly not sobered by the recent killing of Adaobi, violently
threatened to slap the New Telegraph correspondent for coming to the vicinity
to speak with people, take pictures and try to do a story.
He collected the correspondent’s phone and his
identify cards, accusing him of filming them.
If not for the intervention of family members of
Adaobi, Ralph wanted to drag the correspondent to Trinity Police Station.
Our correspondent also visited Akomafuwa’s house.
His elder sister, Agatha said that her brother had been discharged from the
hospital and now in his Lekki-Ajah home.
Agatha said: “On that Saturday as we were preparing
to go out, I received a called that Emmanuel had been shot, along with his
female friend. The same caller told us that Emmanuel and the lady had been
rushed to hospital. We all went there to
see. We are very grateful to God, Emmanuel is getting better. He can speak and
respond to greetings. It’s God that saved him. Emmanuel doesn’t live with us. When he left our place on
Friday, we believed he was going home. Nobody knew he was still around until
the following day after the incident.”
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