There is confusion at Oke Baale area of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, as some policemen allegedly opened fire on some students of the Osun State University while playing football on Saturday morning.
Two students were hit by the bullets.
One of them identified as Abiola Kazeem, was said to have been hit on the stomach and was rejected at two hospitals before he was taken to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital Osogbo where he is now being treatment.
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The other victim, Ibrahim , was said to have been hit by the bullet in the mouth.
He is currently receiving treatment at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital at Jolayemi area of Osogbo.
Some students living in the area told our correspondent that the policemen came to the football pitch and started shouting Yahoo boys, Yahoo boys and thereafter opened fire on the students.
The Coordinator of the National Association of Nigerian Students in the South West, Mr. Saheed Afolabi, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
He said he rushed down to Oke Baale area to find out what happened and he was one of those who took the students to the hospital.
There is massive protest on major streets of Osogbo by students of the university and they are being joined by their colleagues to protest the shooting.
There are bonfires in some area by those protesting the shooting.
Some protesters, who gathered in front of Oke Baale Police Station, attempted to raze down the station but policemen on duty resisted them.
The DSA said she gathered that the policemen, who were not on uniform, were brought to the playing ground in a vehicle with no number plate.
The DSA said that residents of the town are the ones protesting the shooting now because they consider the action as barbaric.
It will be recalled that UNIOSUN students had staged a protest at Oke Baale late last year on the grounds that policemen always come to exhort them with trump up charges.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Folashade Odoro, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on the telephone.
She said, ” The Commissioner of Police has directed that a full scale investigation should be conducted into the matter. Anybody who is responsible for the dastardly act will be brought to justice.”
The immediate past Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has advised his successor, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to avoid engaging in acts that could bring any past occupant of that office to public ridicule.
In a letter dated December 1, 2016, which he wrote to Idris, Arase pointed out that it was for this reason that while he was in office, he ensured that Force Order 295 was put in place to protect ex-IGs from being demeaned.
Arase, who retired as police IG in June, said it was in the spirit of this order that he desisted from ridiculing the last two IGs before him even though he knew that they each went away with 13 and nine police vehicles respectively when leaving office.
The former IGs, which Arase referred to, are Mohammed Abubakar, who retired in 2014 and Suleiman Abba, who was sacked in April last year by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Arase said this in his reply to the allegations by Idris that he (Arase) took away 24 police vehicles while leaving office in June as the IG.
The former IG had earlier dismissed his successors allegations that he left with two dozens of vehicles while leaving office, wondering what he would do with such number of vehicles.
Arase said rather than denigrate Abba, who he succeeded, he indeed initiated actions and bought a brand new bulletproof jeep for the sacked IG despite the fact that Abba’s administration left a debt of N28bn for him to contend with.
He urged Idris to put the integrity and honour of the Nigeria Police Force first in any action he might want to take so that the force would not be exposed to public ridicule.
Arase said, “I expect that former occupants of the office of the Inspector-General of Police should not be demeaned. This explains why Force Order 295 was emplaced by the force management under my leadership as acknowledged in your letter in reference.
“In spite of the emplacement of this order and despite the fact that my two immediate predecessors left office with 13 and nine vehicles of different makes and models respectively, I never pressurised either of them to return any of such vehicles neither did I engage in any act that was capable of bringing them to ridicule as being done to me of late by a force I dedicated my life to serving up to the highest level.
“Rather, it is on record that I went the extra mile to source for funds and initiated actions towards purchasing a brand new bulletproof jeep for my immediate predecessor, even after his retirement from service. This was done notwithstanding the fact that I inherited and had to manage a huge debt profile of about N28bn, which limited the financial base of the force at the time.”
Among the 13 vehicles, which Arase said Abubakar took away were a BMW (7 series) bulletproof car; and two Toyota Land Cruiser V8 bulletproof jeeps.
According to him, Abba also took away a Toyota Land Cruiser bulletproof jeep and a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado jeep along with seven other vehicles.
Arase said God had blessed him so much and he was contended to the point that he would willingly surrender “all my vehicular entitlements even as contained in the Revised Force Order 295 in the overriding interest of the force and in the sustenance of the legacy of comradeship between an incumbent IGP and his predecessor.”
He said he decided to delay in returning the vehicles, which Idris alleged he took away, as a form of protest against the “unfair, untidy and demeaning approach the matter was handled until now.”
Arase, however, said he harboured no animosity towards Idris and encouraged him to feel free to approach him for advice, just as his predecessors did to him.
Culled from Punch
The police in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested six suspected members of the gang that abducted the wife of the Central Bank Governor, Margaret Emefiele, last Thursday.
The suspects, who were arrested at their hideout in Edo State over the weekend, are being held at the state command headquarters, Benin.
The suspects were apprehended by the operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Monitoring and Intelligence Team, led by CSP Abba Kyari.
Police swarmed a church in central Paris today amid fears of a potential attack after reports gunfire had been heard and hostages taken.
Parts of the city were shutdown while the French government issued a warning telling people to avoid the Les Halles district of the city.
Officers have since confirmed it was a 'false alarm' and there is no indication of any danger to the public.
Police were called to the area at around 4.30pm (3.30pm BST) after people reported hearing explosions and hid in a church on St. Denis.
A police officer asked to help investigate a fatal hit-and-run accident discovered the victim was his mother. Rob Smythe was sent to examine a vehicle recovered after a collision in Manchester.
He was later told that the car had killed his mother, Susan, who suffered horrific injuries in the incident.
The collision was between a blue Volkswagen Golf and Susan, who was walking home from bingo, was in Stretford in the couth of the city on Sept 9.
Despite the best efforts of paramedics 59-year-old Mrs Smythe was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man was later arrested and charged in connection with the fatal crash.
Greater Manchester Police said they were aware of the tragic coincidence and were supporting Mr Smythe.
Paying tribute to her over the weekend, Susan’s family said: “Susan was born in Old Trafford and lived in the area her whole life surrounded by her brothers and sisters who she loved to see regularly.
“She worked part time with one of her sisters as a barmaid at the Trafford Social Club and liked to socialise locally with both her brothers and sisters, and also with her friends.
“She often visited Stretford Mall either to do her shopping or just to meet up with some of her many friends.
“Susan also loved going on foreign holidays either with family or friends, most recently having been to Spain and Turkey.
“She also enjoyed going to the bingo with her family where she would meet more of her friends.
" She was on her way home from playing bingo when she tragically died.
“We are absolutely devastated by her death and will miss her greatly."
The Lagos State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the suspects who allegedly forced a 23-year-old lady, Judith (not real name), to smoke Indian hemp before taking turns to rape her at 106, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, around Pako Bus Stop, Lagos.
Saturday Punch learnt that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, requested a comprehensive report from the Isokoko Police Division, Agege, Lagos, after last week’s publication.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Dolapo Badmos, told Punch on Thursday that the report arrived on Thursday.
She said, “The commissioner of police has directed that the case be transferred to our gender desk unit so that it can be given the seriousness it requires.
“The CP has said on no account should any DPO compromise on a rape case. A manhunt is on for the suspects at the moment.”
Saturday Punch had reported last week that Judith was raped on Sunday, August 28 by two men identified as Monaco and Wasiu, who are now on the run.
A third suspect, Olanrewaju Osinubi, was arrested in connection with the rape. The family said immediately Judith was found at the scene of the rape, he told them that he was the one who gave Indian hemp to the victim, claiming that she took it willingly.
Judith’s family said despite this, he was only charged to court for a lesser crime of obstructing police investigation.
But reacting to this, Badmos said Osinubi was charged to court for obstructing the police investigation because he had nothing to do with the rape.
She said, “He was not involved in the rape. After the family reported the rape at the Dopemu Police Division, they had to go and arrest the two suspects – Wasiu and Monaco. But Osinubi obstructed the policemen from entering the house. He said nobody would enter the house to make any arrest.
“While this was going on, the suspects escaped from the house. That was why Osinubi was detained and later charged for obstruction of police investigation. They would have been able to arrest the suspect if not because of the obstruction.
“They transferred the suspect to Isokoko Police Division because it is one of our family support units where experts handle cases of domestic and sexual violence. The Isokoko DPO’s report shows that the victim’s aunty, who reported the case even appealed to the police to release him so that they could settle it. They probably wanted him released because they had been promised some form of compensation.
“The DPO insisted he (Osinubi) had to be charged to court for what he did. The woman did not even say anything about Indian hemp. We have confirmed from the two divisions and they said the same thing. Even if Isokoko compromised, can Dopemu compromise? He was an accessory after the fact.
“Now, she is saying the man was involved while he was not. If we charged him for a crime he was not a part of, we will lose the case because there won’t be any evidence to prove it.” However, Judith has been bedridden since the incident, Saturday Punch learnt.
“She has not been able to leave the house. She has been bedridden and taking treatment since the incident occurred. Receipts for different drugs and treatment are piling up in the house,” her uncle said.
Meanwhile, the family said they are now being threatened in the neighbourhood by some individuals they do not know.
Judith’s uncle explained that on two separate occasions, an individual had come to their house to ask about his wife without identifying himself.
He said, “The third time this happened, my wife was in front of the bank in our neighbourhood and a man came to her and asked, ‘Do you know me?’ My wife was able to recognise him as someone she sometimes saw around the house where the rape occurred.
“She then told him, ‘Yes, I know you.’ But the man just turned and walked away. People have told us to leave the house for now because the boys who mill around that house (the crime scene) are violent. They smoke Indian hemp all the time.”
Mr Fatai Owoseni, the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, has disclosed that no fewer than 65 policemen have been arrested for various offences in the last one month.
According to him, they were arrested at different parts of the state by the ‘Anti-Extortionist Squad’ in the command.
The police boss said the action was in compliance with the directive of the Inspector-General of Police on zero tolerance to corruption and unprofessional conduct in the force. We hope they keep this up and flush out all the bad eggs. No time!
This is a photo taken from the outskirt of a Police Station at Trinity Police post Ajeromi Ifelodun Lagos state..
Lol! I saw the view and couldn't hesitate to take photos..
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