Tension As Soldiers Storm Lagos Community Over Killing Of Policeman

Agency ReporterAugust 10, 2019

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Some fierce looking soldiers, on Saturday, stormed Ijegun, Lagos, over the detention of two policemen, Newsflash247 reports.

Newsflash247 had reported that angry youth in the community were holding the officers hostage at the palace of their paramount ruler.

This followed the killing of a female trader by a bullet reportedly fired by the security operatives who were chasing some suspected internet fraudsters.

Newsflash247 gathered that the trader was pronounced dead at the hospital she was taken to after the incident.
She was said to be pregnant with her first child.

The operatives reportedly fled the scene upon learning of her death but youth in the community held two of them.

Some of the policemen who escaped, Newsflash247 learnt, later returned with the soldiers.

As the youth gathered around a bonfire in front of the palace where the officers were being detained, the soldiers and the returning cops charged at them.

“They started pelting the security operatives with stones and bottles but the soldiers fired into the air to disperse the aggrieved youth”, a witness told Newsflash247.

“The soldiers and some policemen moved into the palace of the traditional ruler. After some minutes, they left without the policemen who had gone in with them”, he added.

Newsflash247 further learned that the officers are currently stationed at strategic locations within the palace in Ijegun.

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Contacted, the Lagos State Police Spokesman, Bala Elkana, said the officers involved were Anti-Kidnapping operatives and not men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

He added that there was still tension in the area but that a police team had been deployed in the axis to restore sanity.

“They were Anti-Kidnap, not SARS operatives. We don’t have the details of what happened for now. But the mob has killed one policeman and injured two. The area is still tense. But we are handling it”, Elkana said.