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Lagos state:Policeman shoots woman to death, injures husband in Lagos

Policeman shoots woman to death, injures husband in Lagos

As CP queries DPO, orders arrest of team members; Killer cop charged for murder

By Evelyn Usman & Ebere Aham

LAGOS—A police corporal attached to Isheri-Oshun Division in Lagos, Wednesday night, fired a shot at a moving tricycle along Isheri/ Ijegun road, killing the wife of the operator, Idongesit Ekpo, on the spot.

Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, are however, battling to save the life of the operator, Godwin Ekpo, who was reportedly also hit by a bullet.

Consequently, visibly angry 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.

DPO queried
Owoseni has also queried the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of the division for allowing his men to operate without a properly labelled Police vehicle.

Information at Vanguard’s disposal had it that the tricycle operator was returning from church with his wife and four children between the ages of 1 and 12 in the tricycle, popularly known as Keke Marwa, when the police corporal flagged him down.

PROTEST: Tricycle operators protesting alleged killing of wife of their colleegue by a policeman in Isheri-Oshun area of Lagos.

It was also gathered that tricycle operators usually gave the policemen between N50 and N100 in the morning and also at night.