A motorcyclist, popularly called Okada rider, Saheed
Bamiro was this morning shot dead by a policeman, simply identified as Kabiru.The deceased was involved in issuing tickets to riders in
Ijebu Ode and was a native of Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu North local government area
of the state.
The deceased’s neighbour, simply called, Iyabo, as
gathered, had gone to the police station to report him and when police came to
arrest him with handcuffed,he resisted and in the ensuing argument, the
policeman fired a gun at him on his head and he died instantly at the spot.
The incident occurred at 71, Olukoku street, around De
Bash Filling station, Ijebu Ode early on Wednesday, December 1.
Our correspondent gathered that the incident happened
when the deceased resisted arrested by the police, who had gone to his house to
arrest him this morning.
Narrating the incident to our correspondent, Comrade Yemi
Ijaoba Odukoya, the Chairman of the Vigilante Service of Ogun state (VSO), said
the remains of the deceased has been deposited at the state mortuary, Omo- owo
area,Ijebu Ode.
According to him, “I received a distress call from some
elders in the area and when I rushed there,I met the man in the pool of his own
blood.“We tried to see if the man can still get over it,but he
had died immediately he was shot. I have took his remains to the state
mortuary.
“What I was told was that he had a long time quarrel with
one of her neighbours, identified as Iyabo and the woman had gone to the police
station to informed them that the man is around and a police officer was
attached to her to go and arrest the man.
“It was in the course of getting the man arrested and
handcuffed that he resisted and the police was said to have shot him on his
head and hr died immediately.
“I have put a call across to the Area Commander at Igbeba
and what I was told was that the policeman has been arrested and detained for
further interrogation,” the VSO boss explained.
Saheed Bamiro has a wife, Seun, with three young kids.
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