Police Officers on patrol from the Nigerian Police command in Ilorin, Kwara State on Monday 23rd, December shot two persons at about 11:40am. They victim were killed by stray bullets as they walked by the Ilorin Central Mosque.
Eye witness reports that a Police patrol van was pursuing the driver of a car. Because the driver did not stop, the policemen shot into the air, with a view to forcing him to stop before the incident occurred.
Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, confirmed the incident,adding that the corpses of the victims have been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital mortuary and that the yet-to-be identified policemen will be brought to book.
The Nigerian Police Force have arrested two suspect believed to have attacked a female Youth Corps member posted to Obuah community in Yenagoa Local Council of Bayelsa State, Miss Folakemi Akinbode.
They were arrested while attempting to sell the handset belonging to Miss Folakemi Akinbode. The suspects, identified as Ebi Jatto and Weriye Aluwa, were arrested on Wednesday at Koroama community in Yenagoa Local Council of the state and they confess to committing the crime. The suspects claimed that the victim, Folakemi, struggled with them while they were attempting to snatch her bag and they had to attack her with a machete due to her refusal to hand over her possession.
Police source said the two attackers were present during the payment made to the blood donors by the Corps member, adding “they claimed that all they wanted from her was the remaining money she kept in her bag after the payments in the afternoon. But that when she struggled and identified one of them, she was attacked with a machete.”
