Tuesday, February 23, 2016
POLICEMAN KILLS A TRICYCLIST OVER N500 BRIBE
There was strain in the Iyana Ishashi region of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway at the weekend after a policeman, recognized as Inspector Wahab, shot a tricycle rider, distinguished as Biliaminu, over N500 'security expense.'
Report says a group of policemen connected to the interstate watch group in the Idimu Police Division, drew in some tricycle and bike riders in a battle after some purportedly declined to pay a "concurred" N500 security expense.
By report, a group of policemen more often than not work at the Iyana Ishashi transport stop on illicit obligation, gathering cash from tricycle and bike riders.
In any case, fortunes ran out on them when Inspector Wahab supposedly shot his casualty.
A tricycle driver, who talked on state of secrecy, deplored the coercion and blamed the policemen for high way robbery.
He said they paid in regards to N10, 000 consistently for settlement.
He said, "We pay the police and even military officers at whatever point they come here. On the off chance that we don't pay the cash, they could grab our method for occupation and to get them back, you will need to pay at any rate N10, 000. Also, what amount would we say we are making from this business?"
Portraying the episode, a cruiser rider, Bidemi Ayeni, told The Punch that the policemen's insatiability brought on the occurrence.
Ayeni said, "The practice here is that at whatever point the police go to the recreation center, we give them N500. That happens each Friday. It is called security charge.
"We pay them with the goal that they won't bother us. Furthermore, we generally turn it among the three units in this park.
"The three units are the bike riders, the tricycle drivers and the Kelebe drivers. Kelebe is a little measured four-wheel vehicle.
"Last Friday was the turn of the Kelebe drivers to make settlement and after they had paid, the policemen said the N500 was too little for them.
"One of the Kelebe drivers then came inside the recreation center to beg the executive of the tricycle streams, with the goal that he would likewise pay.
"Some person mishandled him for not minding his business and the general population there said it was not their swing to pay.
"The Kelebe driver went and answered to the policemen who sent him, and the officers came inside the recreation center and struck the tricycle drivers' administrator," Ayeni described.
A few hooligans in the recreation center and devotees of the administrator were said to have assaulted the Kelebe driver for his part in the occurrence after which the policemen moved to retaliate for the attack of the Kelebe driver.
The recreation center young men were said to have assaulted the policemen with stones and different bludgeons and the police countered.
The police Inspector, Wahab, was charged to have opened flame on the casualty, who was among the executive's supporters.
It was assembled that it was after the dust had settled that Biliaminu was found in a pool of blood.
The policeman that shot him purportedly sought after him and when he couldn't get up to speed with him, he shot him in the back. One of his ears was truly influenced as he purportedly arrived on an item.
He was from there on, raced to an anonymous private doctor's facility in the state where he had been set under serious consideration.
In the interim, the four policemen allegedly surrendered themselves to the closest police headquarters in the zone and were later exchanged to the state charge central command and have been kept.
Affirming the occurrence, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said the police were exploring the case.
"The report is that a group of policemen terminated amid an experience with a few criminals in the Iyana Ishashi region.
"A short time later, it was found that a shot had strayed into an okada administrator (motorcyclist).
"In the interim, the police are as yet exploring the group and their report," the PPRO affirmed.
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Obviously 500 is like a million when they can kill for 50 naira
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