Policeman Kills Okada Rider In Ogun State

A motorcyclist, popularly called Okada
rider, Saheed Bamiro was this morning
shot dead by a policeman, simply
identified as Kabiru.
The deceased was involved in issuing
tickets to riders in Ijebu Ode and
was a native of Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu
North local government area of the
state.
The deceased’s neighbour, simply
called, Iyabo, as gathered, had gone
to the police station to report him
and when police came to arrest him
with handcuffed,he resisted and in
the ensuing argument, the policeman
fired a gun at him on his head and
he died instantly at the spot.
The incident occurred at 71, Olukoku
street, around De Bash Filling
station, Ijebu Ode early on
Wednesday, December 1.
Our correspondent gathered that the
incident happened when the
deceased resisted arrested by the
police, who had gone to his house to
arrest him this morning.
Narrating the incident to our
correspondent, Comrade Yemi Ijaoba
Odukoya, the Chairman of the
Vigilante Service of Ogun state (VSO),
said the remains of the deceased has
been deposited at the state mortuary,
Omo- owo area,Ijebu Ode.
According to him, “I received a
distress call from some elders in the
area and when I rushed there,I met
the man in the pool of his own
blood.
“We tried to see if the man can still
get over it,but he had died
immediately he was shot. I have
took his remains to the state
mortuary.
“What I was told was that he had a
long time quarrel with one of her
neighbours, identified as Iyabo and
the woman had gone to the police
station to informed them that the
man is around and a police officer
was attached to her to go and
arrest the man.
“It was in the course of getting the
man arrested and handcuffed that
he resisted and the police was said
to have shot him on his head and
hr died immediately.
“I have put a call across to the Area
Commander at Igbeba and what I
was told was that the policeman
has been arrested and detained for
further interrogation,” the VSO
boss explained.
Saheed Bamiro has a wife, Seun,
with three young kids.