Eze Okoro, a 46-year-old man in Lagos was recently shot dead by drunk Nigerian Police officers in front of his house at 1, Oguntolu Street, Ijaiye, Ojokoro area, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. But the police have denied taking part in his murder.

The policemen, according to sources, had been drinking for about six hours at a hotel nearby before they gunned down the man while he was enjoying evening breeze in front of his house after work .

After shattering his waist with bullets, the policemen who were said to have come from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, forcefully took his corpse away and dumped it in a mortuary at Yaba.

P.M.NEWS gathered that they did this after the Ikeja mortuary officials insisted that before his body could be deposited there, they must fill certain forms, which they refused.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting of Okoro were still strange to the residents who told P.M.NEWS that there was no violence or robbery in the area that warranted such police action.

According to Okoro’s wife, Mrs Ugo Okoro, her husband, who is a businessman, returned from work on the fateful day, and because there was no electricity supply, they went and relaxed in front of their house to enjoy some breeze before going to sleep.

She said their family friend, Chinedu Nwanu and his wife, Nneka Nwanu, who is heavily pregnant, also joined them outside.

Ugo said it was not up to five minutes after she left them and went into their apartment that she heard gun shots and the residents started running in all directions.

She said while the commotion was going on, she heard her husband, who was wearing a pair of shorts and simple shirt, shouting that he was not a robber and was explaining to the policemen that he was just relaxing in front of his house.

“Nneka also fell down and started shouting that she was pregnant and showing the police her husband who was beside her. She was allowed to leave with her husband and one of the policemen shot my husband in the waist and he died on the spot,” Ugo narrated.

P.M.NEWS gathered that after they shot Okoro, they forcefully took his body away, perhaps to cover up their heinous act.

Sources told P.M.NEWS that the team of policemen had arrived a popular hotel in the area beside Okoro’s house in a Sienna bus with registration number KJA 280 BD and were drinking heavily in the hotel from 4p.m. till 10 p.m. before the incident happened.

Police sources claimed that the man was shot in error during a gun batttle with armed robbers in the hotel, a claim disproved by Okoro’s wife and relatives.

Even the hotel management told P.M.NEWS that there was no shootout between the police and robbers as claimed by the police and that they did not know their mission in the area that day.

The hotel sources, who pleaded for anonymity, said they only noticed the unusual presence of policemen which caused panic in their hotel.

One of the sources said that the policemne did not disclose their mission. Rather they were there having their drinks for several hours.

The source said it was later that they heard gun shots outside and residents including workers of the hotel started running for safety and that after some time, he got to know that they had shot and killed Okoro.

He insisted that there was no robbery incident in the area that day.

Okoro’s younger brother, Innocent, said he was informed about what happened and he immediately contacted other members of the family and they started searching from one police station to another for his corpse.

He said they went to many police stations and commands and to their greatest suprise, they all denied having anything to do with the incident.

Innocent said the search lasted for three days and there was no information whatsoever before they contacted a top police officer who made the police to open up.

He said the police then asked him to go to Yaba mortuary and search for Okoro’s corpse. And when he got there he discovered that the corpse was dumped there as an unidentified corpse.

He said the corpse was brought back to Ikeja General Hospital mortuary where he filled the necessary documents.

Innocent expressed shock about what happened and the way the police treated the whole matter by not even contacting the family because they knew he was an innocent resident they killed for no reason.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/03/19/man-gunned-down-by-drunken-cops/

Wicked set of human beings! Always gunning down defenseless citizens. When they meet their match in Boko Haram they will start scaling over fences for their dear lives...

Can anything good come out of the police? How can a policeman be consuming alcohol while on duty, so unprofessional like

nawao . I witnessed similar thing recently when police came for robbery suspect in my area in Lagos . I was going to the car park and saw heavily armed police in mufty as if they were after bh boys.
the suspect was lured to the bus stop as they have been waiting for him over night and for many hours. I was still at the bustop when the guy surfaced. omo come see shooting as they surrounded the guy and sprayed tear gas to the guys face. the shooting went on like 10minutes for no reason as they were celebrating and started drinking and sharing dry gin before they eventually took him away as the shooting continued.
na real film as every one was running and hiding to avoid stray bullets.
they are really wicked and heartless without good training.
any hungry and trigger happy police men should be sent to kano to further display their madness and may be their liver no go shake or scatter.

Welcome to Nigeria..

Wicked set of "boko Haram of d west" thats au they pack innocent youths in my area all in hope obtaining #2000 bail 4rm them

The animal in uniform should be send to borno.

OMG! This is really sad, may his soul R.I.P AMEN.

may his soul rest in peace nigeria police nawao

Hmmm

Nigerian Police again, hmmmmmm

It's high time we started avoiding dis people called Police.

High time dey scrap dat shi t on black uniform called 9ja police

Only God can save Nigeria.

u cant associate policemen with water but drinks.am a witness of how a drunk policeman shattered d leg of my niece smh 4d force.

Pathetic... Nigerian Police

Police is ur friend, if a police man can catch a bike man, arrest and lay allegation that hes an armed obber simply because no body has showed up for bail, and even arrange to exchange the bike man wit another criminal due for execution, then i think this is even too small compare to what the Nigeria Police False, sorry force is capable of.

Boko kill in large numbera, police complete the rest, Nigeria which way?

This story get as e be. Well only God Knows the truth. We cant stay here and Judge. No matter what, this case should not be swept under the carpet. By the way what business does this businessman do?. Is it connected to some of those businesses that attracts police attention and searchlights? Just asking. RIP Brother Okoro. Thats how destiny wrote your life script. You just have to play it out.

The police spokeman will surely deny this story

This is plain assassination, not a mistake.

Nigerian police stay away from dem if love ur life

i have perfect dislike for the people in black.they are pathetic wicked,dishonest,foolish,miserable people,u gave no pity to my little niece.

After they say poilce is Чö̤̣̇ΰя friend.. How.i hate those ppple. Wen D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ jst allow evry tom dick n harry 2 join d NPF.. Hmmmm

The evil that these policemen do will surely hunt and leave with them!

Artistree: It's high time we started avoiding dis people called Police.

And stared to employ boko haram to guard lives and properties abi?

Had it been there was light this man wouldn't have been dead PHCN murderer!

adexsimply: there is more to this story..ABEGI

police never display madness in your eyes before?