Motorcycle drivers on Thursday shut down the Ijegun Road in the Alimosho area of Lagos State, after a woman, Idongesit Ekpo, and her husband, Godwin, were shot by a team of policemen attached to the Isheri Osun Police Division. While Idongesit died on the spot, Godwin was said to be in a critical condition at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where he was taken for treatment. RAW GLOBAL NEWS learn that the couple was returning from a church programme on Wednesday in a tricycle belonging to the family. Our correspondents were told that Godwin met a police checkpoint at Obalagbe bus stop, where some other tricycle drivers were being reportedly extorted by an eight-man police team. He was said to have been flagged down by one of the policemen, but as he sped past, one of the officers shattered his windscreen with a baton.

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The office of the public prosecutor as advocated by Sen.Murray Bruce is needed to checkmate the excesses of these armed forces and politicians who think they can get away with any crime they commit.