Oyo state Police command Thursday said it has arrested a Police Inspector and other policemen involved in the alleged shooting, leading to the death of a student at a popular club in Ogbomosho.
The police command in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by its spokesman, SP Adewale Osifeso, for the Oyo state Commissioner of Police, CP Adebola Hamzat, declared that the arrested policemen are currently under detention at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku.
The statement said the Commissioner of Police has ordered that the case be taken up by the Homicide Department of the State Criminal Investigation Department with the Deputy Commissioner of Police directly in charge of the investigations.
It pointed out that the state Police command is presently awaiting the result of the post-motem on the deceased to further assist with the investigation.
“The Oyo state Police Command wishes to clear the air about the unfortunate shooting incident that occurred on Monday, at about 0130hrs around a popular Night Club along, “Under G” Area, Owode-Ogbomoso, resulting in the demise of Iyanda Damilola, ‘m’.”
“Investigation report reveals that during the early hours of the same date and time, a distress call was received by operatives of the Command’s Monitoring Unit stationed within Ogbomoso through the director of a popular Night Club within the axis, requesting for immediate intervention and protection from rampaging suspected student cultists who were at the time harassing guests and destroying club property.
“In a swift response to the call by the club director, a team of officers led by one Inspector Rasheed Saheed, arrived at the scene. The fracas worsened as deliberate efforts were made by the suspected cultists to prevent the police from further gaining access into the crime-scene while shots were allegedly fired from different angles including from the intervening officers who fired warning shots to disperse onlookers.”
