Angry tricycle riders yesterday morning besieged the Afonka Police Station, located at Akowonjo Egbeda area demanding justice over the shooting and subsequent death of their colleague by unknown Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) on Tuesday night.

The deceased Aranse Akeem, 31, married with one kid, was said to have been shot at close range by the angry policeman and he died immediately at the spot. The bullet which hit him on his left side chest was said to have come out from his back.

A tricycle rider, Mr. Basa Paul, who witnessed the murder of Akeem, said the incident occurred around 6pm on Tuesday, at Karim Lakanu Street, Egbeda.

Paul said the policeman whipped out his service pistol from his waistband, shot Akeem, still armed with the gun, grabbed and held a commercial bike rider hostage. He ordered the motor rider to take him away from the scene.

According to Paul, trouble started after a tricycle rider, fully loaded with passengers, tried to reverse, unaware that a motorbike rider was coming. The tricycle and motorbike rider bumped into each other. The motorbike rider was carrying the policeman.

Immediately the riders bumped into each other, the policeman, who was in mufti jumped down from the motorbike that was carrying and stood in front of the tricycle, threatening to deal with the man for riding in such a manner.

[b]Paul said: “We never knew he was a policeman. He challenged the tricycle rider on his bad turning. Akeem and I got up from where we were and went over to start begging and apologizing to him. We begged him because we wanted him to allow the tricycle rider to go. As he stood in front of the tricycle, holding unto it, he had already caused serious traffic jam.
“But no matter how much we apologized and begged, he refused to leave the road and the traffic continued. While this was going on, a motorbike rider rode past, he said if you people knew who you were dealing with, you wouldn’t dare to argue or challenge him. He left. Akeem now held him and dragged off the tricycle, so that motorists would past. That was how he brought out pistol from his waistband and shot Akeem, just like that. He shot again into the air and people scattered. He used his pistol to stop motorbike and ordered him to ride. I quickly followed them with my tricycle. I knew he was running away. When my tricycle was about to lose them, I stopped a motorbike rider and followed them.”[/b]

Paul said he followed them until the policeman entered Unity Estate Close, beside the Abdul-azee’s Central Mosque, Abule-Odu area. When Paul sighted that the shooter had stepped down from the motorbike, he alerted mechanics around there, telling them that the man had just killed someone.

“We moved towards him. When he ran, he didn’t know the direction he took was a close. He brought out his pistol and shot into the air, forcing people to run. But I continued to follow him. He said he would shoot me. I told him to go ahead, reminding him that he had already killed someone. Suddenly, the same motorbike rider that picked him came back and took him. I tried to follow, but couldn’t,” said Paul.

Paul said he started calling his colleagues, to tell them what had transpired. The first thing the members did was to hunt for the motorbike rider that took the policeman to Unity Estate. They found and took him to Afonka Police Station.

Yesterday, the members also searched for the motorbike rider who told Paul and the late Akeem that they didn’t know whom they were dealing with. They got him. He said his name is Eze. He said he knew the policeman and family, identifying the trigger happy policeman as ‘Mohammed.’ He also said the shooter is a two star police officer. The corpse of Akeem had been taken to a mortuary at Yaba.

“But no matter how much we apologized and begged, he refused to leave the road and the traffic continued. While this was going on, a motorbike rider rode past, he said if you people knew who you were dealing with you wouldn’t dare to argue or challenge him.

Taylor86:
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look for that officer and kill him


police killings and jailing innocent citizens since d days of buhari as a military head

buhari don win again military don dey misbehv

eazisky:
Eleyi gidi gan!
but y d guy no quikly give 20 naira b4 d traffic hold up? all these would have been averted