Police Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS Ikeja who was
alleged to have shot a LASTMA official, Rotimi Adeyemi, dead in the
Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos state yesterday November 28th, has died. He
died shortly after arriving at the hospital. He had been beaten by a mob
after he shot Adeyemi. A statement from the spokesperson of the state
police command, CSP Chike Oti, says the state commissioner of police, CP
Edgal Imohimi, has ordered the FSARS officer be tried posthumously.
Read the statement belowOn 28/11/18, at about 1800hrs, the driver of a
Toyota Highlander SUV, with registration number LSR 277 BJ, later
identified as Police Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS Ikeja
while driving along Iyana-Ipaja road, was contravened for driving
against traffic by a LASTMA official, one Rotimi Adeyemi, aged 46 years
at Iyana-Ipaja roundabout.The two men vehemently disagreed with each
other. However, during the altercation, the said Inspector Olukunle
Olonade allegedly shot the LASTMA officer to death. Consequently, irate
mob, who thought that the shooter was an armed hoodlum because he was in
mufti, decended on him and beat him to stupor.Although he was later
rescued by teams of policemen drafted to the scene, he later gave up the
ghost while being rushed to hospital for treatment. The serial number
of the pistol recovered at the scene was checked in the system and it
revealed the bearer as Inspector Olukunle Olonade attached to FSARS
Ikeja.Corpses of the deceased have been evacuated to the morgue for
autopsy. The CP Lagos has directed that the late Inspector Olakunle
Olonade be tried posthumously in Orderly room and be recommended for
dismissal from the Force.
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