Protesters invade Police stations

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

By Albert Akpor & Evelyn Usman
LAGOS—NO fewer than 100 youths, yesterday, stormed Area ‘G’ Command in Ogba area of Lagos, protesting the killing of one of their own by a senior Police officer, Monday, on Yaya Abatan Street.

Meanwhile, the officers who were with the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Pen Cinema Division, who allegedly shot one Demola Oderinde, have also been arrested and are currently being interrogated at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, over their culpability in the killing.

Also, the Divisional Crime Officer in charge of Onipanu Division, escaped death by the whiskers, yesterday, after hoodlums, who claimed to be protesters invaded the station shooting sporadically.

The aggrieved youths, who sang anti-police slogans demanded that the policemen on board the police van with number plate RRS 101 LA, that pulled up where some youths were playing football on Monday at Ogba, leading to the death of their colleague, insisted they would not leave are ‘G’ Command until justice was done.

The presence of a combined team of policemen and an Armoured Personnel Carrier sent them away.

The DCO Onipanu, according to spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, was shot on the head by the invaders. He added that the policemen were able to over power the hoodlums but did not state whether any arrest was made.

Meanwhile, the strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress to protest the removal of fuel subsidy took a violent dimension in some part of Lagos State as hoodlums hijacked the opportunity to dispossess unsuspecting members of the public of their valuables.

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