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Police Engage Hoodlums In Osogbo, Scores Injured, Cars Destroyed by Ebbysegun(m): 3:06pm On May 19, 2021
Men of the Osun State Command of the Nigerian Police yesterday engaged some hoodlums at the Don Plaza, MDS area Osogbo.

The engagement led to the exchange of gunshot with several vehicles destroyed and scores of passersby injured.

Trouble started when some unidentified hoodlums approached the CEO of Don Plaza to demand for "settlement" with some amounts of money.

After all efforts to have Don Plaza settle them proved to be unsuccessful, the hoodlums threw caution to the wind and started causing trouble within and around the plaza, as well as harrasing other people within the vicinity.

According to an eyewitness account, at around 3pm, when the behaviour of the hoodlums seems to be going out of hand, the police invaded the premises allegedly on the request of the CEO of Don plaza to chase the hoodlums away.

However, upon arriving, the police men began to shot to scare the hoodlums away, but they didn't just shot into the air, they shot at the hoodlums too.

Innocent people in the MDS area soon became the victims of the sporadic shooting between the police and the hoodlums, leading to the destruction of several cars parked around the area.

In an attempt to take cover from the flying bullets, some people also sustained various degrees of injuries.

Some of the affected victims described the manner of the police shooting as totally unprofessional, many wondered what warranted such shooting when it was not an armed robbery scene. Insisting that the police should have approched with more caution.

One of the victims who spoke to Osun Defender, Mr Olarenwaju Yusuf, who owns a photo studio in the area said he is still in shock. He showed the bullet holes on his car's windshield and ask that the matter must not be swept under the carpet.

He blamed the police for the destructions and demanded that the police should fish out the it's men that carried out the shooting at Don Plaza to prevent future occurence. He also ask that those whose cars were destroyed should be compensated by the police.

Another eyewitness simply identified as Ahmed, a furniture maker, said he escaped the gunshots by the whiskers, wondering why the police should turn against the people they are meant to protect.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Osun Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola, while responding to enquries by Osun Defender said, policemen were only preventing hoodlums from invading the plaza and extorting traders there and that some of the hoodlums were armed with dangerous weapons and were unyielding to the civil plea of the policemen.

According to her, "the police shot into the air to disperse the crowd of the hoodlums who were obviously waiting to commit crime and disturb the public peace, our men didn't shot at the people, they are professionals".

She also challenged anyone that claims he or she was shot or has gunshot injury to come out and report at the police headquarters.







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Re: Police Engage Hoodlums In Osogbo, Scores Injured, Cars Destroyed by cwlfpt: 3:09pm On May 19, 2021
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Re: Police Engage Hoodlums In Osogbo, Scores Injured, Cars Destroyed by ChiefSosa(m): 3:27pm On May 19, 2021
I DON'T PITY HOODLUMS. THEY WON'T PITY YOU WHEN THEY ATTACK. I WILL GLADLY USE MY SHARP CUTLASS TO PUT A SMILE ON THE THROAT OF ANY HOODLUM.

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