Policeman kills driver in Ogun

A POLICE corporal in the Ogun State Command (name withheld) yesterday shot dead a commercial driver identified as Likinyo Olumide at the Sagamu toll gate along Lagos-Benin expressway.

An eyewitness, Folake Egbeuwalo, who was one of the seven passengers in the vehicle driven by the deceased, told journalists in Abeokuta that the driver was shot dead after he had parked beside the road on the order of the armed policeman.

Egbeuwalo who spoke at Police Headquarters, Eleweran, said “the incident occurred at 9:45 pm when we were coming from Lagos where we went to buy some goods and heading back to Okitipupa in Ondo State.”

She continued: “As we were coming, we met many policemen and soldiers on the road, we stopped and settled them.”

“When we reached Sagamu toll-gate, we did not know that there were policemen on the road. They asked the driver to park and he parked immediately. When the driver came down from the vehicle, he stood beside the vehicle and the policeman moved to the other side of the road and gunned him down immediately.”

Egbeuwalo further said the policemen ran away immediately the man died and later came back and took away the corpse in one of the Hilux vans marked NPF104 OD.

She, however, lamented that all the passengers were abandoned and they slept on the highway as none of them could drive the car after the death of the driver.

A younger brother to the late driver, Likinyo Solomon lamented the death of his elder brother, who he said was survived by six children and a pregnant wife.

He said: “I demand to see the person that killed my brother and to know what actually happened before he was killed.”
When asked to comment on the incident, the Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 2 , Balade Hassan who happened to be on a visit to Ogun State yesterday, assured that the suspect policeman would face the wrath of the law.

“We have arrested the corporal and he would face the full wrath of the law, we are going to treat the matter departmentally before he would be charged to court for proper prosecution.”