Fuel Scarcity: Police identify officer who shot man dead at filling station

The Lagos State Police Command said it has identified the constabulary serviceman progressive successful the fatal shooting of Toheeb Eniafe astatine a petrol presumption successful Obalende.

Benjamin Hundeyin, the constabulary spokesperson, made this known via his X handle connected Thursday.

“The idiosyncratic down the shooting has been identified arsenic a constabulary serviceman serving astatine Special Protection Unit (SPU) Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos,” helium said.

“Investigation is inactive ongoing and further findings volition beryllium made available.

“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is moving with the household of the deceased to guarantee that determination is nary miscarriage of justice,” helium added.

According to a witness, who spoke with the Vanguard newspaper, immoderate information officials drove into the presumption to bargain petrol portion galore others were successful the queue.

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“The actions of the equipped officers were met with stiff absorption from radical who had been waiting successful the queue for implicit 5 hours. The deceased, Toheeb Eniafe, was 1 of the radical who spoke loudly against the officers, asking them to articulation the queue similar everyone else.

“Quickly the verbal confrontation degenerated into a fisticuff. One of the men changeable the young antheral and instantly fled the incidental scene, leaving the country successful disarray,” the witnesser recounted.