The police in Ondo State has confirmed the arrest of some of its men
over the killing at the weekend of an Edo-born truck driver,
identified as Friday Igbinedion.
The Command's Public Relations Officer, ASP Wole Ogodo, confirmed this
to SaharaReporters while responding to allegations that the command
was planning to bury the case and transfer the killer cops to another
state before human rights groups in the state petitioned the Inspector
General Police.
Igbinedion, according to sources, was allegedly shot dead by
trigger-happy police officers at a checkpoint on the Ore/Benin road
midday on Friday.
An eyewitness told SaharaReporters that the driver was driving an
unregistered truck when he was stopped at the police checkpoint in Ore
around 12: 35 pm.
"The driver was coming from Lagos with his unregistered truck when
some policemen stopped him at a checkpoint. At the point of asking his
vehicle plate number an argument ensued and the next thing we heard
was gunshot and we saw him in his pool of blood."
It was learnt that immediately the incident happened, the policemen
fled the scene, sensing danger as motorists mobilized for an attack on
them.
Said Ogodo: "The team made up of six policemen attached to the
policepatrol vehicle along Ore/Benin route have been arrested and as I
speak to you now they are detained at the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID) in Akure."
He also confirmed that the corpse of the felled truck driver has been
deposited in the mortuary pending the outcome of the command's
investigation into the killing which, he said, will be made known to
the public. He assured that the killer cops will face the law if
found culpable.
The Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar, had dismantled road
blocks and checkpoints upon his appointment but motorists and road
users said that corrupt policemen have gradually reinstated the
extortioncheckpoints in the last few months along Nigerian dangerous
highways.
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