Meanwhile, Police officers have gone on a raiding spree in the community. They were said to have roused some people from sleep and taken them away. The officers, it was gathered, came twice to raid the community and allegedly whisked away about 30 suspects.
It was gathered that the victim, identified as Mr. Abudu (aka Baba Timo), who had moved from Bariga to Otto some months ago, was cooling down with local gin at a joint with his friend (names yet unknown) when trouble began.
Vanguard gathered that the disagreement, which started as a joke at 8p.m., last Friday took a new dimension at 10 p.m., after the duo engaged in a fight, using dangerous weapons such as broken bottle and cutlass on each other.
It was learned that because of the harmattan cold, most residents had gone to bed while others could not intervene because of the use of dangerous weapons by the two parties.
Baba Timo reportedly inflicted machete cuts on his friend’s head and hand, while his friend used a broken bottle on his (Baba Timo) neck.
Unfortunately, Baba Timo died on the spot while his friend who sustained injuries on his head and neck is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.
Narrating how Police officers raided houses in the community, Mrs Titi Balogun, whose husband and son were arrested, told Vanguard:
“At few minutes past 11p.m., I woke one of my sons to put off the generator, immediately he did that and locked the back door, I noticed movement outside through my window and later someone began to hit on the back door very hard.
“I came out of my room and went to open the door and behold, they were police officers. One of them asked me why we put off our generator, and I said because it was late. They then went into one of the rooms and woke my husband, who was sleeping. They entered the other room, woke one of my sons and his friend and then arrested them.”
Yes to worsen d issue ,d police arrested innocent citizens from their homes at midnight n ask them to bail themselve out with 10k...our people being ignorant of their right in desperation had to pay d bail out fee...friend if mine was a victim too....too bad on d illegal activities of members of d NPF who claim to be our friend
ReplyDeleteYes it happen in my area. Our police men are so stupid ijanike police station hungry police men ask people to pay 10k for nothing de don't no of
ReplyDeleteNPF no dey eer respet themselves. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
DeleteWell dis one is 2fighting and one has fallenby d sword.one can't rili aaccuse d other 4 murder bos he may hv killed his friend on d grounds of self defence. Its suh a shame dat men who should be @home in d comfort of their wife's arms would deteriorate 2 fighting with deadly weapons. Smh. Hmmm! "Uwaifo don talk e own o".
ReplyDeleteAnd is not sachat dry gen is a bottled one
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteLol...very authentic report...heard about d shit dis mornin..police don make money 4 people head....
ReplyDeleteUgo u dey waka ooo.....u don reach ijk,lol....
arrestin innocent pple is nt d solution
ReplyDeleteOjukokoro, if we start to beat police e go be like say we no no get respect
ReplyDeletePolice is ur friend, I n follow 10k,how much dem go collect for i follow,Infact dy ijk police,hmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteThe Nigerian Police are just useless. Their act makes people hate them, even though not all of them.
ReplyDeleteHow can they just arrest innocent people when the culprit is known and lying in the hospital. No professionalism at all.