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| Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti |
The police in Lagos say they have arrested nine persons who allegedly attacked their men in the Ayobo area of the state.
The spokesman for the state command, Chike Oti, also denied an online publication alleging that one of its officers killed a bus driver in the area.
Oti said in a statement on Saturday that the suspects allegedly belonged to an unlawful society.
He said, โ We unequivocally state that no police officer killed any bus driver in Lagos State on the date in question being March 1, 2019.โ
Oti said a team of anti-crime policemen on routine patrol led by Oloruntoba Gbenga, an inspector, was attacked by youths suspected to be members of an unlawful society, led by one Lekan Isiaka.
โThe said Lekan Isiaka, while trying to snatch a rifle assigned to Inspector Frank Ikpokpo, stabbed him on the head. The rest of the team resisted the criminal gang and made a distress call to their area command headquarters in Ayobo.
โPolicemen dispatched to the scene on rescue mission succeeded in arresting the notorious Lekan Isiaka who pretended to be dead in the video being circulated alongside his partners in crime.
โThey are Precious Bassey, Anayo Ugwu, Adewale Fatai, Samuel Akande, Matthew Ogbede, Adewunmi Idowu, Chukwuka Oshele and Kunle Adeola.
โThe injured policemen have been treated and discharged while Ikpokpo is in the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital,โ Oti said.
The spokesman said that the Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, had directed that the suspects be charged to court on Monday, March 4, 2019 for attempted murder.
Meanwhile, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the Grassroots Development Society and the Police Community Relations Committee, all of the Ogun State chapters, have called for a full-fledged investigation into the killing of a police sergeant, Sunday Idoko, during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
Idoko was reportedly killed during the movement of election results at Eredo, Yewa-South Local Government Area of the state.
