By Wilson Adekumola
One of the operatives of Imota Police Division in Ikorodu area of Lagos State has been reportedly short dead by suspected thug.
The assailants who shot the policeman to death on Friday escaped with the slain officer riffle, police confirmed on Monday.
Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin told the News Agency of Nigeria that three other police operatives were seriously injured in the attack.
The operatives of the Imota Police Division in the Ikorodu area were said to be on patrol duty when they came under the assailants’ attack at Emuren Junction, on Itokin Road in the area.
According to local sources, the assailants, suspected errand boys of land grabbers, waylay the police patrol team, opened fire on it, killed one on the spot and escaped with his rifle.
“On Saturday, police raided cultists’ hideouts in Emuren, Shagamu Local Government Area of Ogun,’’ a resident said.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, many innocent people had fallen victim to gun attacks by agents of land grabbers in Ikorodu and its environs in the past.
