Soldiers attached to the Ojoo military Barracks have allegedly killed a police Inspector attached to the TradeFair Division Lagos state police command and absconded with his corpse.
According to a police source, the deceased police Inspector identified as Inspector Monday Orukpe was on legal duty with his colleagues along the Lagos-Badagry Express Road on Wednesday evening assisting the traffic officers to aid free flow of traffic when the soldiers said to be inside a bus in the gridlock allegedly approached the policemen and accused them of causing the gridlock.
The source who requested anonymity said " Inspector Monday was on legal duty when they soldiers accused the police of causing the gridlock. Inspector Monday and his colleague said they were not responsible for the gridlock . The soldiers started arguing with them and this led the soldiers to pounce on Inspector Monday and beat the other policeman to a pup making him unconscious. The soldiers killed Inspector Monday and took his corpse away to thier barracks with the other unconscious policeman. They went away with thier guns to thier barracks The Divisional Police Officer of the TradeFair police station and the Area commander have not been able to recover his corpse from the soldiers or get the unconscious policeman from them".
An elder brother of the deceased policeman Mr Alama Oamen Orukpe said " I was at home when the wife of our brother called me that she has not seen her husband and all her calls to his phone were not returned. As I was trying to find out where he could be, I got a call from a policeman in the station where he served that our brother Monday was killed by soldiers and they took his corpse away with them. He left home that fateful morning to work and he was posted legally to the beat where he was killed by these soldiers. As I'm talking to you, the police authority has not reached out to us the family members to tell us what really happened to our brother. We want justice. We want the police to recover his corpse and give it to us for burial. He is a married man with four children and his wife gave birth recently. We want the police authority to get to the root of this matter and those killer soldiers should be brought to book".
An uncle of the late Inspector Orukpe one Mr. Fidelis Ainabebholo condemned the killing. " His wife was expecting him back home from work but he did not turn up. She became worried and called his phone which rang but no response. She called me to tell me that she has not seen my nephew. I rushed down to thier house where I learnt that it was soldiers that killed my brother Inspector Monday who was on legal duty. We want justice for our brother and his corpse returned to us for burial".
Efforts to get the reaction of the Lagos state police command spokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyin was not successful at the time of filing this report ".
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