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Lagos Task Force Officers Shoot Banker For Protesting Car Damage (Pix)
A Department Supervisor with Wema Financial institution, Bamidele Ajala, has been shot by personnel of the Lagos State Environmental and Particular Offences Enforcement Unit (process drive) in Oshodi space of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the officers shot the 39-year-old within the hand whereas they had been fleeing with a yet-to-be-identified LT business bus driver, who bashed his automotive.
Our correspondent learnt that the driving force crashed into Ajala’s automobile round Oshodi, inward Airport Highway, final Tuesday. After the crash, the banker mentioned the driving force claimed he misplaced management of the automobile when some space boys working with process drive officers dragged steering with him to drive him to cease. Within the course of, the driving force rammed into Ajala’s Honda Accord and broken one of many again doorways.
The 39-year-old mentioned he wished to take the driving force to a police station to report the case, however the process drive officers refused. Ajala mentioned, “The motive force mentioned the world boys often labored with the duty drive officers to trace down drivers and that it was once they had been dragging his steering with him and pepper-sprayed his face that he rammed into my automotive.
“I informed the driving force that any individual needs to be answerable for the harm to my automotive. The realm boys wore mufti and I held the driving force as a result of the harm to my automotive was an excessive amount of. So, the actual process drive officers got here, requested why I held the driving force’s trousers and I informed them I wished to take him to the police station to make an entry of the accident.
“The duty drive officers mentioned they might deal with it and I handed over the driving force to them. The officers referred to as the world boys to drive the business bus and the driving force away, however after I realised that they had been making an attempt to flee with the driving force, I bumped into my automotive and caught up with them.”
The Kogi State indigene mentioned when he requested the place they had been taking the driving force to, one of many process drive officers shot his proper hand and the tyres of his automobiles. The sufferer, whereas demanding justice, mentioned the officers protected the bus driver to forestall him from making a report that may indict them.
He mentioned, “I mentioned the driving force wanted to repair my automotive, however one of many process drive officers slapped my face; my mouth peeled and I began bleeding. The duty drive official additionally went towards my automotive and used his AK-47 to shoot the 2 tyres on the passenger’s facet. At this level, a mob had gathered and in a bid to disperse them, he began capturing and one of many bullets hit my higher left hand. He did all these to forestall me from double-crossing them as I did once they had been escaping with the driving force and the bus.
“My shirts and internal wears had been soaked with blood after being shot, however folks rushed me to the Kupa Hospital on Ajao Property, from the place I used to be referred to the Airforce Hospital in Ikeja for additional treatment. I would like justice. The duty drive officers knew if I used to be in a position to take the business driver to the station, he would point out their names.”
An x-ray carried out on Ajala and sighted by PUNCH Metro confirmed a bullet within the sufferer’s left hand. A spokesperson for the duty drive, Raheem Gbadeyinka, mentioned the duty drive didn’t function within the space on the day of the incident.
“Not all policemen are a part of the duty drive; there are some individuals who parade themselves as process drive officers, however they don’t seem to be. Relating to his case, it needs to be proved past cheap doubt that the policemen are literally process drive males.”
