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3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by teamup: 7:08am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Although normalcy has returned to the area, controversy has continued to trail the alleged killing of three people at Iyana School Bus Stop, along LASU-Iba Road, Lagos State on Friday. Contrary to reports that commercial cyclists in the area attacked a team of policemen from Isashi Division led by the Station Officer (SO) and the Operations Officer, investigations revealed that policemen from the Division stormed the Okada park at Iyana School Bus Stop, seizing commercial bikes, an action that was met with heavy resistance from the cyclists who alleged that the ban on Okada in Lagos State did not apply to the area. Trouble started when the officers allegedly started shooting sporadically which sources said resulted in the death of three persons. A food vendor (Iya Bukola), who claimed to have witnessed the incident, told Sunday Vanguard the story: “We were all here when policemen came to the park and started seizing bikes from the Okada riders. When the Okada riders resisted, they started shooting sporadically and they killed two people instantly while several others escaped with gun shot wounds. When the shooting started I ran out of my shop for fear of being hit by stray bullet. It was while I was running that I fell down and sustained this injury on my leg”, she narrated. Lamenting, Abimbola Aliu, a commercial cyclist, said, “See how they have changed the story, they said we attacked them. Is it possible for Okada riders to attack the police? The law of restriction on certain routes by the state government does not affect this place. So when they said they were attacked by commercial bike operators at a black spot, they should please show the world where the black spot is at Iyana School Bus Stop. We have been enduring all this intimidation and it has become unbearable. One of the victims was at the car wash when a bullet hit him”. Confirming the report, Lagos State Deputy Police Public Relations Officer (DPPRO), Mr Lelma Kolle, said police men from Isashi Division were detailed to storm a black spot after receiving series of complaints about criminal activities of hoodlums and, on their way, some Okada riders, who misconstrued the mission of the police, started pelting the team with stones and the police avoiding confrontation with the Okada riders, retreated and ran back to the station Kolle said the Okada riders pursued the police to the station and attempted to burn down the station. He said to prevent them from carrying out their dastardly act, the police fired into the air to scare them away but two of the Okada men were shot in the legs. “As I am talking to you, the two injured persons are responding to treatment in hospital”, he said. He said that police preliminary investigation showed that some hoodlums who cashed in on the situation later engaged in a free for all and one of them was stabbed to death. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/3-killed-police-okada-operators-clash-lagos/#sthash.ersrjToD.dpuf |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by Nobody: 7:28am On Aug 17, 2014 |
d coppas story is such a cook up frm all indication.. |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by MzJackBaueress(f): 7:40am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Useless police officers! That is how they intimidate and seize bikes of okada men at Iyana School and First Gate bus stops everytime. The roads the ply are not restricted roads,why seize their bikes? I know the policemen at Iba police station will not do that. Isashi police division remain the worst station with criminal minded police officers. RIP to the dead! |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by Chamack: 7:50am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Police can lie eh, the kind of shooting I heard on friday was something else,never heard that shooting before. how can ishashi police come to iyana school which very far from them to arrest okada while dia is a police station at adolf which is the next bustop at iba. Iyana school has always been peaceful am sure they ran out of cash and feel like coming to a place which is not their jurisdiction to make arrest.. Can u imagine what the so called spokes man said, fabrication of lies. 1 Like |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by Nobody: 7:51am On Aug 17, 2014 |
This is usually why I don't pity the Nigerian policemen anytime Boko Haram, Armed Robbers or Soldiers kill them. Very special set of fishbrains. |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by akumada1: 7:59am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Who should we believe in this story now, the police, okada riders or the press?. In time to come if you dont see with your eyes no more believing. |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by ramdris(m): 8:04am On Aug 17, 2014 |
The police version of the story sounds so stupid and completely worthless. They are not Just stupid enough to b attacking armless citizens, they are even more stupid in their excuses. It's quitems disheartening seeing our law enforcement officers taking the life of the people they should be protecting. Worst of all is that nothing will come out of this. The dead souls will never get justice. Pathetic! |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by suwailad(f): 8:07am On Aug 17, 2014 |
thats what you get-bad news under GEJ is so alarming |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by MzJackBaueress(f): 8:10am On Aug 17, 2014 |
Chamack: Police can lie eh, the kind of shooting I heard on friday was something else,never heard that shooting before. how can ishashi police come to iyana school which very far from them to arrest okada while dia is a police station at adolf which is the next bustop at iba. Iyana school has always been peaceful am sure they ran out of cash and feel like coming to a place which is not their jurisdiction to make arrest.. Can u imagine what the so called spokes man said, fabrication of lies.policemen at Adoff do not arrest okada men at Iyana School and First gate bus stop. I am very sure it was police officers at Isashi division that did the raid and shot the okada men. Remember that there's a road from Iyana School that links straight to Iyana Isashi it is certain the policemen came from Isashi. The policemen at Iyana Isashi are very ruthless and wicked!! They go on a raid on okada men,seize their bikes and give them a fine of ten thousand naira to collect back their bikes. Any okada man who doesn't have the fine,his bike is confiscated. |
Re: 3 Killed As Police, Okada Operators Clash In Lagos by Chamack: 10:16am On Aug 17, 2014 |
MzJackBaueress: policemen at Adoff do not arrest okada men at Iyana School and First gate bus stop. I am very sure it was police officers at Isashi division that did the raid and shot the okada men. Remember that there's a road from Iyana School that links straight to Iyana Isashi it is certain the policemen came from Isashi.Yes they came from Isashi to come and make arrest, I went close to the Iba police post where we have a pharmacy shop yesterday morning to get sanitizer and other things, but due to the sporadic gunshot I had to go back home to avoid being arrested or hit by stray bullet. |
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