four Police officers Arrested for killing suspected pocket pickers In Lagos

The Lagos State police command has arrest four Police officers serving in its Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit after they shot two unarmed suspects. The officers had shot the suspected thieves after disarming them of their weapons and holding them in their custody.



The arrested policemen are identified as Sergeant Olaniyi Solomon, Inspector Fabiyi Omomayara, Sergeant Solomon Sunday and Corporal Aliyu Mukaila, all from the Iba Division Patrol team.

The now-viral incident occurred on Monday, August 19, 2019, at around 3.00pm. The Iba Police Station had received a distress call from one Anugu Valentine ‘m’ of No.2 50 Agege motor road Mushin, that a group of armed men numbering up to 4 and who were on 2 motorcycles had attacked him at the Ipaye area of Iba and dispossessed him of an iPhone max which is valued at N450,000.



The DPO of the Iba acted on this information by immediately deploying the Divisional Patrol team to the scene. Two of the armed robbers managed to escape while the remaining two were arrested. Two locally-made pistols, as well as six life cartridges and five expended cartridges, were recovered from the suspected thieves.

The gang are said to have carried out several robberies within the Iba environs and are notorious for their deeds. It was highly celebrated as the thieves were nabbed by the policemen. The Patrol team, however, went overboard by shooting the suspects to death after taking them in their custody instead of taking them to the Police Station where a thorough investigation which is the normal procedure would have been carried out.



CP Zubairu Muazu, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, has given an order that investigation should be carried out into the incident.

The arrested Police Officers are at the moment, subject to the Orderly Room trial which is an internal disciplinary proceeding. They will be dismissed from the force if found culpable, after which they will be handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department Yaba for prosecution in the conventional Court.

Source http://www.dailyadvent.com/crime/2019/08/21/just-in-police-arrest-policemen-who-killed-suspected-phone-thieves-in-lagos/