A police corporal attached to Isheri-Oshun Division in Lagos,Wednesday night, shot at a moving tricycle along Isheri/ Ijegun road, killing the wife of the operator, Idongesit Ekpo,who was nursing a three month old child, on the spot.
Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, are still battling to save the life of her husband Godwin Ekpo, who was also hit by a bullet.
Consequently, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has ordered the immediate arrest of members of the team on duty that night.
The arrested team members include Sergeant Benson Ahambo, Corporal Augustine Telenundu, Corporal Onu Samuel and Corporal Musefun Aremu.
Owoseni has also queried the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of the division for allowing his men to operate with an unmarked police vehicle.
Eyewitnesses said the tricycle operator was returning from church with his wife and four children between the ages of 1 and 12 in the tricycle, when the police corporal flagged him down asking for the usual N100 bribe.
But Ekpo refused to stop to give the policeman money, arguing that the passengers were his family members. He later offered N20 but that angered the cops and Ekpo drove away.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the corporal fired some shots into the moving tricycle. The bullet was said to have shattered Mrs Ekpo’s skull while her husband was hit in the jaw.
On noticing the magnitude of his action, the corporal reportedly alerted his team members and they all fled the scene.
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